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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Open theism."”.
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The Impact of Open Theism on C. Peter Wagner's Philosophy of Discipleship
… emerged from a theological basis established in open theism, affirming God limited his foreknowledge and omnipotence while denying his immutability. Moreover, an underlying consequentialist ethic drove Wagner’s understanding and praxes of the Great Commission. Wagner’s telos sought to create …
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The Impact of Open Theism on C. Peter Wagner's Philosophy of Discipleship
… emerged from a theological basis established in open theism, affirming God’s limited foreknowledge and omnipotence while denying his immutability. Moreover, an underlying consequentialist ethic drove Wagner’s understanding and praxes of the Great Commission. Wagner’s telos sought to create …
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The God-World Relationship Between Joseph Bracken, Philip Clayton, and the Open Theism
… Philip Clayton as a panentheist, and the open theism. They have affinities and differences as conversational partners in their multilayered relations. Their common question must be as follows: “What does it mean to believe in God today?” In this dissertation I compare their respectively …
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An evangelical discourse on God�s response to suffering: A critical assessment of Gregory Boyd�s open theism
… the position adopted by Gregory Boyd known as open theism. Boyd would argue that an open view of God is in a better position to deal with the problem of evil because the traditional understanding of God�s attributes fails to vindicate God of guilt or responsibility for evil and should, …
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Divine sovereignty and the religious problem of evil: An evaluation of evangelical models
… evaluates three evangelical models, namely, Open theism, Arminianism, and Calvinism in terms of how these models of divine sovereignty function to comfort suffering Christians. Central to this evaluation is discovering the various degrees of equivocation each model affords Christians in …
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God’s Foreknowledge – A philosophical investigation
… Molinism (Middle-knowledge) and Open Theism. In my paper, I introduce these philosophical concepts; to evaluate and comment on their successes, failures and religious implications. These implications are essential for those who believe God does have Omniscience as they impact the …
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Is The God Of Christian Theology Apathetic?
… in the schools of Thomistic, Reformed, and Open Theism. In Part II, I give the negative case against God’s impassibility by looking at key texts in Scripture that are thought to give support to impassibility. In this section, I also criticize arguments commonly made for impassibility. First, …
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Future Contingents, Freedom, And Foreknowledge
… regardless of contingency. The opposing view is open futurism, by which no possible course of events is privileged over others; that is, there are no soft facts.</p> <p>A contextualist theory of temporal standpoints, standpoint inheritance, is designed to enhance Priorian temporal logics. The …
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Pentecost, process, and power: a critical comparison of Concursus in Operational Pentecostal-Charismatic Theology and Philosophical Process-Relational Theology
This doctoral thesis comprises a critical comparison of the theme of concursus, the way in which God and humanity interact, in the Pentecostal-Charismatic and Process-Relational traditions. The comparison is literature-based; similarities and differences in the theological literature of each …