Select
Bibliography on Open Theism
Compiled by Justin Taylor
Bound Only Once: The Failure of Open Theism. Ed. Douglas Wilson (Moscow, ID: Canon Press,
2001)
Francis
J. Beckwith, “God Knows?” [Review of Gregory Boyd’s God of the Possible], Christian
Research Journal 22:4 (2000):
54-55.
A.
B. Caneday, "The Implausible God of Open Theism: A Response to Gregory A.
Boyd's God of the Possible," Journal of Biblical Apologetics
1 (Fall 2000): 66-87.
A.
B. Caneday, "Putting God at Risk: A Critique of John Sanders's View of
Providence," Trinity Journal 20
NS (1999): 131-163.
D.
A. Carson, "God, the Bible and Spiritual Warfare: A Review Article," Journal
of the Evangelical Theological Society 42 (1999): 251-69.
William
Lane Craig, The Only Wise God: The
Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom (Grand Rapids: Baker
Book House, 1987).
William
Lane Craig, "Hasker on Divine Knowledge," Philosophical Studies 62
(1992): 57-78.
Millard
J. Erickson, God the Father Almighty: A
Contemporary Exploration of the Divine Attributes (Grand Rapids: Baker Book
House, 1998).
John
Frame, No Other God: A Response to Open
Theism (Phillipsburg, NJ: Presybterian & Reformed, 2001).
Alfred
J. Freddoso, “The ‘Openness of God’: A Reply to William Hasker,” Christian
Scholar's Review 28:1 (Fall, 1998): 140ff.
Norman L. Geisler and H. Wayne House, The Battle for God: Responding to the Challenge of Neotheism, (Kregal, 2001)
Paul
Helm, Book Review: The God Who Risks: A
Theology of Providence, Modern
Reformation, November/December 1999, Vol. 8, No. 6.
Paul
Helm, “The Philosophical Issue of Divine Foreknowledge,” in The
Grace of God, the Bondage of the Will, vol. 2, edited by Thomas R. Schreiner
and Bruce A. Ware (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1995), pp. 485-97.
Paul
Helm, The Providence of God. Contours
of Christian Theology, (Downers Grove: Ill. InterVarsity Press, 1994).
Paul
Kjoss Helseth, “On Divine Ambivalence: Open Theism and the Problem of
Particular Evils.” Journal of the
Evangelical Theological Society 44:3, September, 2001
Michael
S. Horton, “Hellenistic or Hebrew? Open Theism & Reformed Theological
Method”
Paper
presented at the Evangelical Theological Society (Colorado Springs: November
14-16, 2001).
Michael S.
Horton, “A Vulnerable God Apart from Christ? Open Theism's Challenge to the
Classical Doctrine of God,” Modern
Reformation, Vol. 10, No. 3, May/June 2001.
Richard
Mayhue, “The Impossibility of God of the
Possible” Paper presented at the Evangelical Theological Society (Colorado
Springs: November 14-16, 2001).
R.
Albert Mohler, “Does God Give Bad Advice?
New Evangelical View of God Presents a Deity with a Backup Plan,” World
Magazine 15:24 (June 17, 2000).
Roger
Nicole, “Review of The God of the
Possible.” Reformation & Revival
Journal (2001).
Roger
Nicole, “Review of The Openness of God.”
Founders Journal (Fall, 1995).
Robert E.
Picirilli, “An Arminian Response to John Sanders's The
God Who Risks: A Theology of Providence, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Vol. 44, No. 3,
September 2001.
Robert
E. Picirilli, "Foreknowledge, Freedom, and the Future," Journal
of the Evangelical Theological Society 43 (2000): 259-71.
John
Piper, “Why the Glory of God Is at Stake in the ‘Foreknowledge’ Debate,”
Modern Reformation 8, no. 5
(September/October 1999), 39-43.
http://www.alliancenet.org/month/99.10.jp.debate.html
Steven C. Roy, " "How Much Does God Foreknow? An Evangelical Assessment of the Doctrine of the Extent of the Foreknowledge of God in Light of the Teaching of Open Theism" (PhD dissertation, Trinity International University, 2000).
Still Sovereign:
Contemporary Perspectives on Election, Foreknowledge, and Grace, edited by Thomas R. Schreiner and Bruce A. Ware
(Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2000).
C. Samuel Storms, “Open Theism in the Hands of an Angry Puritan: Jonathan Edwards on Divine Foreknowledge.” Paper presented at the Evangelical Theological Society (Colorado Springs: November 15, 2001).
Robert
B. Strimple, “What Does God Know?” in The
Coming Evangelical Crisis: Current Challenges to the Authority of Scripture and
the Gospel, Ed. John H. Armstrong (Chicago: Moody Press, 1996), pp. 139-53.
Gene
Veith, "A God in Their Own Image: A Return of the Really Old
Religions," World Magazine, 15:18
(May 6, 2000).
Bruce
A. Ware, “Despair Amidst Suffering and Pain: A Practical Outworking of Open
Theism’s Diminished View of God.” The
Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 4/2 (Summer 2000): 56-75.
Bruce
A. Ware, “An Evangelical Reformulation of the Doctrine of the Immutability of
God,” Journal of the Evangelical
Theological Society 29/4 (1986): 431-46.
Bruce
A. Ware, God’s Lesser Glory: The
Diminished God of Open Theism (Wheaton, Ill: Crossway Books, 2001).
Bruce
A. Ware, Book Review: The Case for Free
Will Theism. Journal of the
Evangelical Theological Society 43/1 (March 2000), pp. 165-168.
Bruce
A. Ware, Book Review: The God Who Risks: A
Theology of Providence, Journal of the
Evangelical Theological Society, Vol. 43, No. 2 (June 2000).
Bruce A.
Ware, “Defining Evangelicalism’s Boundaries
Theologically: Is Open Theism Evangelical?” Paper presented at the Evangelical
Theological Society (Colorado Springs: November 15, 2001).
David
Wells, “The Rejection of the Classical Doctrine of God and What It Says About
the State of the Evangelical Movement,” Modern
Reformation (May/June 2000).
Stephen
J. Wellum, “Divine Sovereignty, Scripture, and Open Theism: An Evaluation.”
Paper presented at the Evangelical Theological Society (Colorado Springs:
November 14, 2001).
Stephen
J. Wellum, “The Openness of God: An Assessment,” Reformation & Revival (2001).
Stephen
N. Williams, “What God Doesn't Know: Were the Biblical Prophecies Mere
Probabilities?” [Review of John Sanders, The
God Who Risks,] Books & Culture, November/December
1999.
R.
K. McGregor Wright, No Place for
Sovereignty: What's Wrong with Freewill Theism (Downer’s Grove, Ill:
InterVarsity Press, 1996).
Wendy Murray
Zoba, “God at Risk: A former process theologian says a 30-percent God is not
worth worshiping,” [Interview with Royce Gordon Gruenler], Christianity Today (March 5, 2001).
David
Basinger, “Can an Evangelical Christian Justifiably Deny God’s Exhaustive
Foreknowledge of the Future?” Christian
Scholar’s Review 25 (1995): 133-34.
David
Basinger, The Case for Freewill Theism: A
Philosophical Assessment (Downer's Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1996).
Randall
G. Basinger, “Exhaustive Divine Sovereignty: A Practical Critique,” in The
Grace of God, the Will of Man: A Case for Arminianism. Ed. Clark Pinnock
(Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan: 1989), 191-205.
Gregory
A. Boyd, God at War: The Bible and
Spiritual Conflict (Downer's Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1997).
Gregory
A. Boyd, God of the Possible: A Biblical
Introduction to the Open View of God (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 2000).
Gregory
A. Boyd, Satan and the Problem of Evil:
Constructing a Warfare Theology (Downer’s Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press,
2001).
Gregory
A. Boyd, Trinity and Process: A Critical
Evaluation and Reconstruction of Hartshorne's Di-Polar Theism Towards a
Trinitarian Metaphysics (Peter Lang Publishing, 1992).
Gregory
A. Boyd and Edward K. Boyd, Letters From a
Skeptic: A Son Wrestles with His Father’s Questions about Christianity (Colorado
Springs: Chariot Victor Publishing, 1994).
Robert
B. Chisholm Jr., “Does God ‘Change His Mind’?” Bibliotheca Sacra 152 (October-December 1995): 387-99
W.
Norris Clarke, God, Knowable and
Unknowable (New York: Fordham University Press, 1973).
Roy
Elseth, Did God Know? A Study of the
Nature of God (St. Paul, MN: Calvary United Church, 1977).
William
Hasker, “Foreknowledge and Necessity,” Faith
and Philosophy 2, no. 2 (April 1985), 121-157.
William
Hasker, God, Time and Knowledge,
Cornell Studies in the Philosophy of Religion (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1989).
William
Hasker, “The Openness of God,” Christian
Scholar’s Review 28:1 (Fall, 1998: 111-139). http://www.opentheism.org/hasker,_csr.htm
William
Hasker, “Tradition, Divine Transcendence, and the Waiting Father,” Christian
Scholar's Review 28:1 (Fall, 1998),
134-139.
http://www.opentheism.org/tradition,_csr.htm
Lorenzo
D. McCabe, Divine Nescience of Future
Contingencies a Necessity (New York: Phillips and Hunt, 1882).
http://members.nbci.com/CPRINC/Articles/DNtitle.html
Lorenzo
D. McCabe, The Foreknowledge of God and
Cognate Themes in Theology and Philosophy (Cincinnati: Walden & Stowe,
1882).
http://www.revivaltheology.com/mccabe.htm
Clark
H. Pinnock, “From Augustine to Arminius: A Pilgrammage in Theology,” in The
Grace of God, the Will of Man: A Case for Arminianism. Ed Clark Pinnock
(Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan: 1989).
Clark
H. Pinnock, Most Moved Mover: A Theology
of God’s Openness (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2001).
Clark H. Pinnock, “Reconstructing Evangelical Theology: Is the Open View of God a Good Idea?” Paper presented at the Evangelical Theological Society (Colorado Springs: November 14-16, 2001).
Clark
H. Pinnock, Richard Rice, John Sanders, William Hasker, and David Basinger. The
Openness of God (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1994).
Richard
Rice, God’s Foreknowledge and Man’s
Free Will (Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1985).
Previously published as The Openness
of God: The Relationship of Divine Foreknowledge and Human Free Will
(Nashville: Review & Herald Publishing, 1979; Minneapolis: Bethany House,
1980).
Richard
Rice, “Divine Foreknowledge and Free-will Theism,” in The Grace of God, the Will of Man: A Case for Arminianism. Ed. Clark
Pinnock (Grand Rapids, Mich.:
Zondervan: 1989).
John
Sanders, “God as Personal,“ in The
Grace of God, the Will of Man: A Case for Arminianism. Ed. Clark Pinnock
(Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan: 1989), 165-180.
John
Sanders, The God Who Risks: A Theology of
Providence (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1998).
John
Sanders, “Theological Lawbreaker? A Response to Stephen Williams.” Books
& Culture, November/December 1999.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2000/001/3.10.html
Searching for an
Adequate God: A Dialogue Between Process and Free Will Theists. Ed John B.Cobb, Jr. and Clark H. Pinnock (Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000).
Frederick
Sontag, “Does Omnipotence Necessarily Entail Omniscience?” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 34 (Dec. 1991)
Richard
Swinburne, The Coherence of Theism,
rev. ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).
“Is
God Dependent on Us? Interview with Gregory Boyd.” Modern Reformation, November/December 1999 issue
http://www.alliancenet.org/month/99.10.gb.debate.html
John
Feinberg, Norman Geisler, Bruce Reichenbach, and Clark Pinnock. Predestination
and Free Will: Four Views of Divine Sovereignty and Human Freedom. Ed. David
Basinger and Randall Basinger (Downer's Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1986).
Terrance
Tiessen, Providence and Prayer: How Does
God Work in the World? (Downers Grove, Ill: Intervarsity Press, 2000).
"God
vs. God," Christianity Today,
February 7, 2000, 34-5.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2000/002/30.34.html
Elesha
Coffman, “Did Open Debate Help the Openness Debate?” Christianity Today, February 19, 2001, 42-46.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/003/3.42.html
Articles,
reviews, and responses on open theism by Douglas Kelly, Alister McGrath, Roger
E. Olson, Thomas Oden, Clark H. Pinnock, and Timothy George, Christianity
Today January 9, 1995 and February 9, 1998).
Olson, “The Future of Evangelical Theology.”
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/8t2/8t2040.html
Pinnock, “A Pilgrim on the Way.”
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/8t2/8t2043.html
Oden, “The Real Reformers Are Traditionalists.”
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/8t2/8t2045.html
George, “A Theology to Die For.”
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/8t2/8t2049.html
William Lane
Craig, Gregory Boyd, Paul Helm, and David Hunt. Divine
Foreknowledge: Four Views. Ed. James Beilby and Paul Eddy (Downer’s Grove,
Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2001).
Gregory
A. Boyd, The Myth of the Blueprint
(Downer’s Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, forthcoming).
God under Fire: Modern
Scholarship Reinvents God. Ed.
Douglas S. Huffman and Eric L. Johnson. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, forthcoming).
Mark
R. Talbot, How Salvation Takes Place: A
Biblical and Philosophical Response to Open Theism (forthcoming)
The
Edgren Fellowship
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