No Other God : A Response to Open Theism

by Frame, John M.

• ISBN13: 9780875521855
• ISBN10: 0875521851
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Presbyterian & Reformed Pub Co
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Summary

The theological movement known as open theism is shaking the church today, challenging the doctrines of God's sovereignty, foreknowledge, and providence. This timely work clearly describes open theism and evaluates it biblically. Frame addresses questions such as How do open theists read the Bible? Is love God's most important attribute? Is God's will the ultimate explanation of everything? Do we have genuine freedom? Is God ever weak or changeable? Does God know everything in advance? Frame not only answers the objections of open theists but sharpens our understanding of the relationship between God's eternal plan and the decisions or events of our lives.

Table of Contents

Preface	11	(4)
What Is Open Theism?	15	(10)
The Rhetoric and the Reality
The Openness of the Sovereign God
Sovereign Vulnerability
The Ambiguities of Open Theism
The Open-Theist View of Traditional Theism
The Main Contentions of Open Theism
Where Does Open Theism Come From?	25	(16)
The Antiquity of Open Theism
God and the Greeks
Socinianism: the Missing Link in Open Theism's
Genealogy
More Recent Influences
What Is New About Open Theism?
How Do Open Theists Read the Bible?	41	(8)
Logic
Models
Straightforward Exegesis and Anthropomorphism
Is Love God's Most Important Attribute?	49	(8)
Love, Sensitivity, Responsiveness, and Vulnerability
Is God's Will the Ultimate Explanation of Everything?	57	(32)
The Natural World
Human History
Individual Human Lives
Human Decisions
Sins
Faith and Salvation
Summary Passages
How Do Open Theists Reply?	89	(16)
Universalizing Particulars?
Divine Foreordination Versus Human Responsibility?
What Kind of Election?
How Can God Act ``Now'' If He Acts ``Always''?
Other Open-Theist Objections
Is God's Will Irresistible?	105	(14)
Antecedent and Consequent Wills
Decretive and Preceptive Wills
Sanders's Distinction
The Efficacy of God's Will
Do We Have Genuine Freedom?	119	(24)
A Critique of Libertarianism
Other Kinds of Freedom
The Problem of Evil
Is God in Time?	143	(18)
Arguments Against Divine Atemporality
Philosophical Arguments for Divine Supratemporality
Scripture on God and Time
God's Temporal Omnipresence
Does God Change?	161	(18)
A God Who Relents
How Is God Unchanging?
Unchangeability and Temporal Omnipresence
Does God Suffer?	179	(12)
Aseity
Does God Have Feelings?
Is God Ever Weak?
Does God Suffer Death in Christ?
Does God Know Everything in Advance?	191	(14)
Divine Ignorance in Scripture?
God's Exhaustive Knowledge of the Future
Is Open Theism Consistent with Other Biblical Doctrines?	205	(6)
Biblical Inspiration
Sin
Redemption
Assurance
Heaven and Hell
Guidance
Conclusion	211	(2)
Bibiliography	213	(8)
Index of Scripture	221	(8)
Index of Names and Subjects	229