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	Open Theism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Open Theism is the thesis that, because God loves us and desires that we freely choose to reciprocate His love, He has made His knowledge of, and plans for, the future conditional upon our actions.
		Proponents of Open Theism allow that their view is at odds with the great majority of the Christian tradition in rejecting both meticulous providence and divine foreknowledge of what will contingently occur.
		Open Theists also argue that plausible readings that accord with Open Theism can be given of “pancausality” texts such as those alluded to in the previous paragraph, and that this is preferable to dismissing as merely anthropomorphic the overwhelming sense of the Bible that God is in dynamic relationship with His creation.
	www.iep.utm.edu /o/o-theism.htm (7554 words)

	What is open theism?
		Open theism, also called openness and the open view, is a theological position dealing with human free will and its relationship to God and the nature of the future.
		God's omnipresence is also in jeopardy in open theism, since some open theists deny the existence of the future and thereby deny the omnipresence of God in the future.
		Though the open theists will undoubtedly say it does no such thing, it goes without saying that the God of open theism is not as knowledgeable or as ever present as the God of orthodoxy.
	www.carm.org /open/intro.htm (969 words)

	OPEN THEISM ARTICLE LIST
		Open Theism is a relatively recent doctrine with its origin attributed mainly to Clark Pinnock around 1980 and recently to Dr. Greg Boyd, professor of theology at Bethel College, the educational arm of the Baptist General Conference.
		The proponents of Open Theism would presume that the element of time, although created by God, somehow exerts a superior power over His ability to know, by restricting his knowledge through the means of confining Him to a literal present state of being, within a finite creation.
		Open Theism can embrace the Mormon church, which is desperately seeking to appear to be mainstream Christianity, and its concept of God who is imperfect and continually in a state of learning.
	www.ondoctrine.com /20openth.htm (2313 words)

	Open theism - Theopedia
		Open theism, also called free will theism and openness theology, is the belief that God does not exercise meticulous control of the universe but leaves it "open" for humans to make significant choices (free will) that impact their relationships with God and others.
		Open Theists argue that people are created to be in meaningful relationships with God and others and as moral beings must have the ability to make real, responsible choices in their lives.
		Open Theists belief that God seeks to be in relationship with humans and because of this does not exercise "meticulous control" of the universe but leaves it "open" for humans to make significant choices (freewill) that impact their relationships with God and others.
	www.theopedia.com /Open_theism (2755 words)

	Open theism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Open theism, also known as free will theism, is a theological movement that has developed within Evangelical Protestant Christianity as a response to certain ideas that are a part of the synthesis of Greek philosophy and Christian theology.
		Open theism is an alternative to some classical ideas about God, Classical Theism, stemming from a single crucial point of difference: Open theism asserts that the future exists partly in terms of possibilities rather than certainties.
		Open Theism - An Introductory Presentation Jonathan Erdman, not an Open Theism advocate, attempts an objective and very detailed analysis of Open Theism focussed on the biblical, philosophical, and existential arguments of Open Theism as outlined by their leading proponents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Open_theism (2530 words)

	A Day with Fisher Humphreys, April 19, 2005: Open Theism
		Open theists do not claim that in principle it is always wrong to adopt philosophical ideas, but they do say that these three particular attributes of God are unbiblical.
		Open theism has antecedents in Arminianism, in the theology of John Wesley, in holiness and Pentecostal churches, and in individual writers such as Emil Brunner, C. Lewis, and Leonard Hodgson.
		Open theists are serious in their rejection of a finite god; some of them have written entire books opposing the concept.
	www.mercer.edu /baptiststudies/conferences/humphreys2005/opentheism.htm (2571 words)

	Open season on open theism by Steve Hays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The god of open theism is like Trelane, the omnipotent alien brat in Star Trek episode (The Squire of Gothos) who cannot be trusted to take good care of his human "pets." The god of open theism destroys his toys in a temper tantrum (the flood), then weeps over his broken toys after the fact.
		Of course, open theism may be happy to relinquish one or more of the theistic proofs, but that weakens the case for open theism.
		If open theism is true, then the Bible must, in some measure be false, and that might just as well extend to those portions of narrative theology or prophetic optatives which form the Scriptural case for open theism.
	www.monergism.com /thethreshold/articles/onsite/openseason.html (2363 words)

	About the EPC \| Position Paper: Abortion
		A central assumption of open theism is that were God to be fully sovereign, or even (merely) to possess exhaustive foreknowledge, this would eliminate human freedom and the authenticity of our choices.
		Open theists also contend that the Christian church has adopted a doctrine of God that is misleading and inconsistent with the Bible.
		Classical theism and Reformed theology state that God’s knowledge of the future is exhaustive, his providential guidance is complete and the triumph of his eternal purposes is assured.
	www.epc.org /about-epc/pastoral-letters/open-theism.html (1650 words)

	Open Theism and Divine Foreknowledge
		Open theists offer various reasons for their position, but the most fundamental, in my judgment, is that the classical view is inconsistent with human freedom in the libertarian sense.
		The error of open theism is not in claiming that God’s actions in history are temporal and responsive, or even that in the temporal world there is a kind of “give and take” between God and his creatures.
		The second kind of prophecy that Rice mentions ought to be troubling to open theists, because (as I mentioned earlier in regard to Boyd’s interpretation of Judas) it suggests that some human decisions (Pharaoh’s, in the quote from Rice) are morally responsible even though they are clearly not free in the libertarian sense.
	www.frame-poythress.org /frame_articles/2001OpenTheism.htm (4279 words)

	Open Theism
		Open Theism is a theological position that attempts to explain the concept of God’s foreknowledge.
		Open Theism claims to believe in God’s omniscience by arguing that the future is unknowable, therefore God knows everything that is possible to be known.
		The primary failure of Open Theism is that it is an attempt to understand an infinite God with a finite mind.
	www.allaboutgod.com /open-theism.htm (607 words)

	OPEN THEISM, A new View of God for a More practical Christianity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Open View Theism is essentially the belief that Because of God's highest attribute, love, He leaves the future partly "open" to the free agents He has created.
		Open View Theists still believe that Jesus was God incarnate, born of a virgin, performed miracles, suffered a torturous death on the cross, and set us free from sin by the resurrection.
		In contrast, Open View Theism states that God is powerful enough to make good from evil, and resourceful enough to use human decisions in the process, but HE does not cause evil to happen (unless it is punishment, which is not evil).
	stu.westga.edu /~cbost1/openviewtheism.html (7445 words)

	The Debate on ‘Open Theism’
		Open theism does not, however, reject the claim that God is omniscient.
		Open theists contend that God cannot know the future of free moral agents not because God lacks the knowledge or power or cognitive ability, but because the future of such free agents does not exist as an object to be known.
		Open theism is the logical consequence of an Arminian understanding of human nature, free will and the effects of sin.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=3225 (2325 words)

	Amazon.com: No Other God: A Response to Open Theism: Books: John M. Frame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Frame is outstanding in comparing the stated principles of open theism with the actual exegesis (to the extent that it can be called that) that actually violates their stated principles.
		The Open view carries a compelling argument if one is willing to scripturally and historically mis-define the teaching on the sovereignty of God and John Frame is to be thanked for putting out such a marvelous defense against an idea that is dangerous because it's very sources lie within the framework of evangelicalism.
		Open theism is a cancer upon the skin of Evangelicalism.
	www.amazon.com /No-Other-God-Response-Theism/dp/0875521851 (2494 words)

	Challies Dot Com: Open Theism Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Challenges to the Church - Open Theism (06.27.05) This is the first in a series of articles that will examine various doctrinal and societal challenges the evangelical church must face early in the 21st Century.
		Open theism is a relatively new doctrine that has only gained popular prominence since 1994 with the release of the book The Openness of God which was written by five evangelical scholars and edited by Clark Pinnock.
		Put simply, open theism is a doctrine that teaches that God does not fully know the future, for he cannot see what humans will do with the free will He gives them.
	www.challies.com /archives/cat_open_theism.php (1241 words)

	GARY E. GILLEY 0001
		On the one hand it has passed a resolution stating that the openness view of God is contrary to their fellowship's understanding of God, but at the same conference (2000) passed a statement confirming that Boyd's teachings are within the acceptable bounds of evangelicalism.
		By contrast the open view of God reconfigures Him to be devoid of all knowledge of the future; lacking in design and purpose for most events; a responder to the free decisions of His creatures, reduced to predicting, sometimes inaccurately, how events will turn out, and therefore unable to infallibly lead His own people.
		Open theism takes all the scriptural evidence for the omnipotency, sovereignty, control and foreknowledge of God, strains it through the grid of personal freedom, producing an image of God barely recognizable by previous generations of Christians.
	www.ondoctrine.com /2gly0001.htm (7289 words)

	open theism
		The god of Open theism, on the other hand, is ready to enter into new experiences and to become deeply involved in helping us cope as we, with him, face things we simply did not know would happen.
		In recent years the movement known as open theism has claimed to be a more biblical and more practical alternative to the traditional view.
		The theological movement known as open theism is shaking the church today, challenging the doctrines of God's sovereignty, foreknowledge, and providence.
	www.jude3.net /open_theism.htm (419 words)

	Open Theism - Part 1, by Gary E. Gilley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Open theism (also known as free-will theism, open theology and openness of God) was, until recently, a little-known stirring on the fringes of the evangelical camp.
		We will develop and challenge each of these tenets of open theism, but first it would be wise to examine the roots of the movement.
		[5] This is surely a challenge not to be taken lightly. On the other hand, it seems to have escaped the openness supporters that their views are not free of similar influences. One writer traces open theism back to Socinianism, a heretical splinter group which arose shortly after the Reformation.
	www.svchapel.org /Resources/Articles/read_articles.asp?id=69 (718 words)

	Amazon.com: Bound Only Once: The Failure of Open Theism: Books: Douglas Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The result has been a growing awareness on the part of the larger body of Christ that open theism, while appealing to us in our humanness, is a fatally flawed theology of inconsistency that results in a different god and a different view of the world from the one articulated in Scripture.
		In this chapter, he demonstrates quite effectively that the hermeneutic of open theism is unbiblical in its selective denial of the legitimacy of metaphor, and that this denial at its core, is the worst kind of illogic since it regularly results in the views of open theists being rampantly self defeating.
		One of the stated goals is that open theism is nothing new, but is merely the latest reincarnation of socinian and enlightenment thinking.
	www.amazon.com /Bound-Only-Once-Failure-Theism/dp/1885767846 (2859 words)

	Open Theism Information Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Openness Theology (commonly referred to as Open Theism and Free Will Theism) connects with the spirituality of many Christians throughout the history of the church especially when it comes to prayer.
		Hence, the future is partly open or indefinite and partly closed or definite and God knows it as such.
		It is not essential for open theists to take a stand on whether or not God was temporal prior to creation.
	www.opentheism.info (1325 words)

	Grace Fellowship Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Open Theists are not waiting for you to invite them in to make a presentation of their views.
		Although Open Theists would deny it, the fact is they have exalted humanity to the position of a new and final hermeneutic.
		Open Theists may use the name of God, but that does not mean they are accurately depicting Him.
	www.gfcto.com /article-open.htm (8847 words)

	Web Exclusive: Pagan philosophy’s influence on open theism
		In analyzing the publications of the advocates of open theism, they cite secondary sources, rather than primary sources, as evidence of the influence of Greek philosophy on the formation of the Christian doctrine of God.
		Open theists criticize the classical doctrine of God as a development of pagan philosophy.
		Open theism properly rejects process philosophy’s denial of creation, the trinity, and interdependence of God and the universe.
	www.floridabaptistwitness.com /1065.article (705 words)

	Open theism
		Open theism, also known as free will theism and openness, is the teaching that God does not know all things.
		Read and find out why open theism is in error and is potentially very dangerous.
		Dialogue with an open theist on time, the future, and God's knowledge.
	www.carm.org /open.htm (496 words)

	Openness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Openness is related to open source and is a philosophy that is being used as the basis of how various groups and organizations operate.
		It is typified by communal management, and open access to the information or material resources needed for projects; openness to contributions from a diverse range of users/producers/contributors, flat hierarchies, and a fluid organisational structure.
		It is now being put forward to facilitate the growth of the open source and freeware programming communities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Openness (139 words)

	Open Theism?
		You're probably asking yourself, "Open theism--what in the world is that?" It is a contemporary view of God that's created controversy among evangelical Protestant academics.
		In this brief introduction to open theism, I'll summarize the traditional and openness views of God's foreknowledge, present some advantages claimed for open theism and objections made to it, and recommend some further reading on it.
		Traditional theism holds that God knows the future completely either because He preordains all that is going to come to pass (Calvinism) or simply because He knows what is going to come to pass (Arminianism).
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/3830/117684 (519 words)

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