Understanding God primarily in terms of God's nature as love or understanding God primarily in terms of God's will to love distinguishes process theism
from Open theism.
Not exact matches
From Karl: In
open theism, does the possibility exist that God's ultimate purposes for creation might be thwarted?
So my question is: how did the backlash against
open theism shape you, what did you learn
from it, and what would you say to those who would dismiss you (and others) as heretics for your views?
From Ben: Years ago I wrote my master's thesis trying to disprove
open theism.
From Sonja: So if I'm understanding
open theism right, it sounds like it's similar to — if not the same as — the idea that «omniscience» in God doesn't mean «knows exactly what will happen» but instead means «knows every single permutation of what could happen.»
Postconservative theologians are moving away
from classical Christian
theism and toward an «
open view of God.»
More and more, however, philosophy's attempt to become radically secular, divorcing itself
from all ties with Christian
theism, has become successful, leaving fewer avenues of approach
open to the theologian.