Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Open theists like to picture the God of classical Christian theism as a distant, despotic, micromanaging sovereign. 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. They insist that God has knowledge, but not all knowledge, certainly not knowledge of the future acts of free beings. Such Open theistic inferences reveal a deep-seated devotion to Enlightenment categories and narrow, unpoetic imaginations. Ideas have destinations, and one of the consequences of our trying to read the Scriptures without any poetry in our souls will be the eventual destruction of any possibility of ministering to souls. Just imagine the hymn writer trying to lift up the downcast - "I know not what the future holds, but I know Who doesn't know much about it either."
Table of Contents
The loveliness of orthodoxy / Douglas Wilson -- Metaphor in exile / Douglas Jones -- Atlas shrugged : worshipping in the beauty of holiness / R.C. Sproul, Jr. -- Liberals in drag / Ben Merkle -- Open theism and divine foreknowledge / John Frame -- Open theism's attack on the atonement / John MacArthur -- God without mood swings / Phil johnson -- Trinity, time, and open theism : a glance at patristic theology / Peter Leithart -- Foundations for exhaustive knowledge / Douglas Wilson -- Pastoral implications of open theism / Tom Ascol -- Moses' bush or Procrustes' bed / Steve Schlissel -- Open idolatry / Joost Nixon.