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

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

by Richard Rice, John Sanders

Written by five scholars whose expertise extends across the disciplines of biblical, historical, systematic, and philosophical theology, this is a careful and full-orbed argument that the God known through Christ desires "responsive relationship" with his creatures. (read review)

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What a mind-blower for the typical evangelical Christian! Among other radical ideas, this book says (a) God does not know the future in its entirety, but moves through time with us; and (b) a major part of his plan is to give us true free will, with which he lets us create our own good or bad outcomes. (You mean suffering is not God's fault, but ours???)

The ideas are provocative and the reasoning is compelling. If you tend to think God is totally in control and weaves our lives...

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