The Future of Open Theism: From Antecedents to Opportunities

Open theism has reached its adolescence. How did it get here? And where does it go from here?

Since IVP's publication of The Openness of God in 1994, evangelical theology has grappled with the alternative vision ofthe doctrine of God that open theism offers. Responding to critics who claim that it proposes a truncated version of God that fails to account for Scripture and denies many of the traditional attributes of God, open theism's proponents contend that its view of God is not only bibli...