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Interacting with “Most Moved Mover”
1: Introduction
2: Hyper-Relationality
3: Sovereignty
4: Changeability
5: Temporality
6: Conclusion
SOVEREIGNTY
Because God is hyper-relational and purposefully crafted beings after His image exist eternally with them in relationship, Pinnock explains the Bible does not teach that God exercises all controlling sovereignty, but instead alludes to a general sovereignty. An open view reveals a God who shares [...]

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Interacting with “Most Moved Mover”
1: Introduction
2: Hyper-Relationality
3: Sovereignty
4: Changeability
5: Temporality
6: Conclusion
HYPER-RELATIONALITY
One of the foundational principles of Open Theism is the notion that God is hyper-personal and hyper-relational; the personal God, as evident in the self-ascribed personal name “YHWH”, desires to enter into a covenanted partnership with his creatures. Since this principle undergirds God’s Sovereignty, Changeability, [...]

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Interacting with “Most Moved Mover”
1: Introduction
2: Hyper-Relationality
3: Sovereignty
4: Changeability
5: Temporality
6: Conclusion
I finished a 10 page paper on Open Theism yesterday. It is a response/critique of Clark Pinnock’s book “Most Moved Mover: A Theology of Gods Openness (The Didsbury Lectures)” (Clark H. Pinnock). I am going to post the pieces over the next week. In the [...]

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The last place on God’s green earth I thought I would find a constructive dialogue piece on homosexuality and the Church was Grand Rapids, Michigan. Washington, D.C. certainly, but absolutely NOT theeee bastion of all things conservative and Christian!
But that’s exactly what I found in the play “Seven Passages: The Stories of Gay Christians.”
This production [...]

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UPDATE: I thought of one more song as an example of what the “world” is thinking about life. I added the song “Where is the Love” by the Black Eyed Peas.
One of my emerging (not as in emergent, but becoming) new favorite theologians is Karl Barth. Among his many quotables, he said Christians need to [...]

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As I have begun (re)wrestling with truth and knowing, and especially how I know and “truth” within our postmodern, post-Christian world, I found renewed comfort that we can in fact know, because God has revealed. I wrote this post over two years ago during a similar “crisis of knowing.” I hope it comforts you [...]

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The Series
1: Derrida and Textual Interpretation
2: Lyotard, Metanarratives, and The Christian Story
3: Foucault, Power and Knowledge, “The Golden Compass,” and Church Inc.
“I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.” -Jean-Francois Lyotard
This is the famous saying by Jean-Francois Lyotard that has caused much heartburn among professing Christians for its seeming rejection of “big stories.” While postmodernism [...]

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