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Open Theism: An Answer to My Critics
Dialog, 2005Abstract: Open theism is a version of historic free will theism which posits God as granting to human beings significant freedom to cooperate with or to resist the will of God for their lives. God's goal is to make possible relationships of mutual love between God and creatures and therefore set up a dynamic give and take situation in which God can ...
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Trinity, Temporality, and Open Theism
Philosophia (United States), 2007A number of thinkers today, including open theists, find reasons to attribute temporality to God. According to Robert W. Jenson, the Trinity is indispensable to a Christian concept of God, and divine temporality is essential to the meaning of the Trinity. Following the lead of early Christian thought, Jenson argues that the “persons” of the Trinity are
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Examining Problems and Assumptions: An Update on Criticisms of Open Theism
Dialog, 2008Abstract: Open theism, a form of relational theology, has generated a host of criticisms. I examine some of the recent criticisms by analyzing several that center around biblical, doctrinal and philosophical problems. I show how many criticisms miss the mark by failing to recognize and address the underlying assumptions held by open theists.
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2018
Open theism is the name for a model of God which emphasizes divine love and responsiveness to creatures. It arises from a family of theologies known as free-will theism which accentuate the divine gift of freedom to humans and hold that God does not micromanage the affairs of the world.
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Open theism is the name for a model of God which emphasizes divine love and responsiveness to creatures. It arises from a family of theologies known as free-will theism which accentuate the divine gift of freedom to humans and hold that God does not micromanage the affairs of the world.
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2012
Open theism is the “newest” of the theisms in this part of the book, except for some of the emerging “end of being theologies” explored in the sixth section. While all of the key theological/philosophical commitments affirmed by open theists have been, and continue to be, affirmed by proponents of other theisms, the classification of a specific set of ...
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Open theism is the “newest” of the theisms in this part of the book, except for some of the emerging “end of being theologies” explored in the sixth section. While all of the key theological/philosophical commitments affirmed by open theists have been, and continue to be, affirmed by proponents of other theisms, the classification of a specific set of ...
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This Element shows Open theism as a monotheist model of God according to which the future is objectively open-ended, not just from the finite perspective of creation, but from God's perspective as well. This Element has three main sections. The first carefully defines open theism, distinguishes its major variants, compares it to other monotheistic ...
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Divine Temporality in Open Theism
2021This article is about how eternity is understood in "open theism", which opens an important area of discussion in the analytical philosophy of religion on the compatibility of the God’s knowledge and human freedom, and basically points to the temporal openness of God. Open theism interprets eternity as divine temporality.
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Open Theism and the Contingent A Priori
MindAbstract Theological fatalists hold that divine omniscience is incompatible with free will. The most prominent argument for fatalism involves the premiss that in the remote past, god already knew what you would do today. In a recent paper in this journal, Fabio Lampert proposes a variant of this argument that only requires that god ...
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Molinism, open theism, and soteriological luck
Religious Studies, 2010AbstractIt is sometimes claimed by open theists that, on Molinism, God controls who is saved and who is damned and that, as a consequence, God's judgement of us is unjust. While this charge is usually lumped under the problem of evil, it could easily be classified under the problem of soteriological luck.
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