Interacting with “Most Moved Mover”
1: Introduction
2: Hyper-Relationality
3: Sovereignty
4: Changeability
5: Temporality
6: Conclusion
TEMPORALITY
A final component to the open view of God is the concept of His temporality. While God is above Time, in the sense that He is above finite experience and measurement of it, He is not beyond Time’s sequence of events, thus God is a [...]
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Interacting with “Most Moved Mover”
1: Introduction
2: Hyper-Relationality
3: Sovereignty
4: Changeability
5: Temporality
6: Conclusion
CHANGEABILITY
If God “hyper-relationally” operates within our time and space, partners with us, engages us in conflict, binds Himself to us in covenanted relationship, and shifts in His actions and views because of this relationship, then He must also be characterized by what Pinnock terms “changeable [...]
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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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Out of Print: A Novel
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What if tomorrow, the text of the Bible disappeared? All of it? What would happen to the Church? Would She still be able to function and exist? Would individual Christians loose their faith? Or would both survive just fine, even thrive?
That’s the premise of my friend and [...]
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My friend and mentor, John Frye, has published his second book called Out of Print. It’s a gripping story with this basic premise: what if the Text of Scripture vanished and we were left without the physical presence of the Bible?
It’s a wide ranging story that deals with the nature of revelation, how we got [...]
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