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Twelve pastors and teachers explain why the God of open theism is not the God of biblical Christianity. Provides readers with a thorough understanding of what is at stake when exhaustive divine foreknowledge is denied.
Author Notes
John Piperis founder and lead teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. He served for thirty-three years as a pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is the author of more than fifty books, including Desiring God; Don't Waste Your Life; and Providence.
Justin Taylor(PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is the executive vice president of book publishing and book publisher at Crossway. He has edited and contributed to several books, and he blogs at Between Two Worlds--hosted by the Gospel Coalition.
Paul Kjoss Helseth(PhD, Marquette University) is professor of Christian thought at Northwestern College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the author of numerous scholarly articles.
Wayne Grudem (PhD, University of Cambridge) is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Theology and Biblical Studies at Phoenix Seminary in Phoenix, Arizona. He is the author of more than twenty-five books, including Bible Doctrine and Christian Beliefs.
Mark Talbot(PhD, University of Pennsylvania) is an associate professor of philosophy at Wheaton College and the host of the When the Stars Disappear podcast. He is also the author of the Suffering and the Christian Life series, including When the Stars Disappear and Give Me Understanding That I May Live. He and his wife, Cindy, have one daughter and three grandchildren.
Bruce A. Ware(PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is T. Rupert and Lucille Coleman Professor of Christian Theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has written numerous journal articles, book chapters, and book reviews, and is the author of God's Lesser Glory and God's Greater Glory.
Michael Horton(PhD, University of Coventry and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford) is the J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary in California. In addition to being the author of many popular and academic books, he is also the editor in chief of Modern Reformationmagazine, a host of the White Horse Innradio broadcast, and a minister in the United Reformed Churches.
Stephen J. Wellum(PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is professor of Christian theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, and editor of The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology. Stephen and his wife, Karen, have five adult children.
Table of Contents
| Contributors | p. 7 |
| Foreword | p. 9 |
| Introduction | p. 13 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 19 |
| Part 1 Historical Influences | |
| 1 The Rabbis and the Claims of Openness Advocates | p. 23 |
| 2 Genetic Defects or Accidental Similarities? Orthodoxy and Open Theism and Their Connections to Western Philosophical Traditions | p. 43 |
| Part 2 Philosophical Presuppositions and Cultural Context | |
| 3 True Freedom: The Liberty That Scripture Portrays as Worth Having | p. 77 |
| 4 Why Open Theism Is Flourishing Now | p. 111 |
| Part 3 Anthropomorphisms, Revelation, and Interpretation | |
| 5 Veiled Glory: God's Self-Revelation in Human Likeness--A Biblical Theology of God's Anthropomorphic Self-Disclosure | p. 149 |
| 6 Hellenistic or Hebrew? Open Theism and Reformed Theological Method | p. 201 |
| Part 4 What Is at Stake in the Openness Debate? | |
| 7 The Inerrancy of Scripture | p. 237 |
| 8 The Trustworthiness of God and the Foundation of Hope | p. 275 |
| 9 The Gospel of Christ | p. 309 |
| Part 5 Drawing Boundaries and Conclusions | |
| 10 When, Why, and for What Should We Draw New Boundaries? | p. 339 |
| 11 Grounds for Dismay: The Error and Injury of Open Theism | p. 371 |
| A Bibliography on Open Theism | p. 385 |
| Scripture Index | p. 401 |
| Person Index | p. 407 |
| Subject Index | p. 413 |