The Openness of God: A Biblical Challenge to the Traditional Understanding of God

"Open Theism" first came to my attention a few years ago, at the beginning of my brief mission work in Brazil. At that time, reading about it in Christianity Today, I thought it sounded ridiculous. How things have changed. Open theism proposes, among other things, that God does not have perfect knowledge of our future. As strange as this might sound to people trained in classic views of God, it makes a lot of what the... Read Full Review

As a college student in his late 30s who is majoring in philosophy, I can testify to the accuracy of this book's historical section. As the authors ably point out, much of the modern Christian conception of God comes not from the Bible but from the writings of Plato and Aristotle. And the God of Greek philosophy is far more remote and inhuman than the one portrayed in both the Old and New Testaments. This has created a tension... Read Full Review

Pinnock joins four other authors to provide one of the more hotly debated books on the doctrine of God amongst Evangelical Christians. At the root of the vision of deity they designate the "Open God" is their shared conviction that love is God's chief attribute, and all other divine attributes must not undermine the primacy of love. In order to offer a coherent doctrine of God, essayists address issues of divine transcendence,... Read Full Review

In 1980 Richard Rice published this book about the problem of evil and the nature of divine foreknowledge in relation to mankind's free will. The book was quickly forgotten and was out of print in a few years. However, there were a few prominent theologians who read it and were intriqued. Jump forward 14 years to 1994 when Clark Pinnock along with other authors (Richard Rice included) published "The Openness of God" (the... Read Full Review