Sentences with phrase «in open theism»

From Karl: In open theism, does the possibility exist that God's ultimate purposes for creation might be thwarted?

As for my question however, as an Open Theist myself, I have to ask: How do you reconcile your beliefs in Open Theism, with catholic Christianity?

Not exact matches

If anything, their views resemble a charismatic form of Open Theism, in which every prayer is capable of tipping the balance in the running fight between good and evil.

In class, we had discussions about election and predestination, open theism, inerrancy and inspiration of Scripture, millennialism, tribulationalism, dispensationalism, infra -, supra -, and sublapsarianism and many other «very important» subjects that you discuss every day over dinner.

An opening essay on Hartshorne's methodology is followed by eight others: the initial four focus in one fashion or another on Hartshorne's discussion of theism and the latter four attend to other aspects and implications of his thought.

(3) Unlike classical theism, black theology has never conceived divine omniscience in a way that denies that the future is at least partly open.

Stephen: How do you feel that open theism works in relation to the concept of the «Sovereignty» of God?

If I had to define «Open Theism» in one sentence, I would say that it as the view that the future is partly comprised of possibilities and is therefore known by God as partly comprised of possibilities.

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.»

Open theism argues that God does not know «the future», either because it does not yet exist to be known, or because God chooses not to know it, in an act of kenosis (self - emptying).

In process theism the future is an open risk.

When I meet someone who identifies himself as Reformed, I make all kinds of assumptions — that he is stuck up, that he thinks Calvin must sit on the right hand of the Father, that he delights in the idea of people being predestined for hell, that he will call me «uninformed» and «unenlightened» when he finds out that I've explored Open Theism.

It was well known at the time that open theism was a major issue in the proceedings of the Evangelical Theological Society.

But I am convinced of this: the no - God theory leaves the most important facts in human life utterly without possibility of explanation, while theism opens wide the door to an outlook on life which makes even the world's evil seem ultimately soluble.

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.