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Title: God of the Possible: A Biblical Introduction to the Open View of God by Gregory A. Boyd ISBN: 0-8010-6290-X Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.83 (40 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Bad Theology...I Highly Recommend It
Comment: As a work of convincing biblical scholarship, this is a failure. Dr. Roger Olson's public endorsement of it (see editorial reviews) is disappointing to read from such a fine scholar. A better appraisal of this book and the theological movement behind it is Bruce Ware's _God's Lesser Glory: The Diminished God of Open Theism_. Make sure you read that after you pick this one up.
I will not dwell on the shortcomings of the exegesis and theological conclusions of this book, since so many others have done so already. Instead, I will focus on reasons this book should be read by discerning (and yes, even "open") minds. Of all the books on open theism, this one has received the highest marks. It is very readable, and is perhaps the closest to being "orthodox" of all the popular books by openness scholars. In other words, even though Boyd is way off the mark here, he is not as far off as most of the others in his camp.
I therefore recommend it as an introduction to the subject. Evangelical Christians will have to battle this heresy time and again in the upcoming years, and it is important for those who are biblically-minded to become familiar with the arguments. In addition, it is a rare occurence for any written work to be completely void of any truth whatsoever, and the kernels of truth presented in Boyd's work are certainly worth taking into consideration. Since reading books on open theism, I have become more mindful of the relational and emotional aspects of God that can sometimes be pushed aside in classical theism. I appreciate Boyd, Pinnock, Sanders and the others for helping me see more clearly that dimension of God as presented in scripture. However, I do not believe we have to abandon historic Christian doctrines like exhaustive divine foreknowledge and meticulous providence in order to understand these aspects. One need only look at the lives and writings of Jonathan Edwards and John Piper to see that.
So to conclude, I would recommend that this book be read along with Ware's _God's Lesser Glory_ as a response. If discerning evangelicals across America would collectively do this simple task, open theism would probably be dead within a generation.
Rating: 1
Summary: Impossible if you read your Bible as God intends
Comment: Very readable and easy to follow. However>>>>
Questions: If our free will limits God to nonawareness of our future choices to preserve genuine libertarian latitude, what's to preserve our freedom if God can know our present choices while we are real-time making them? Doesn't His awareness of what we are freely doing inhibit our freedom of action so we cannot now do otherwise than as He sees or foresees? If our futures must be private and secure from divine certitude, why not our presents? Isn't only the past beyond libertarian interference by divine knowledge?
Rating: 1
Summary: Just plain unbiblical philosophy of misbelief
Comment: Have you ever read a book recommended by someone only to be crushingly disappointed?
That's what happened to me! I was expecting the philosophy to be closely tied to exactly how the Bible is to be on its own terms understood. But this turned out to be a different, hetero-philosophy than the Bible could allow: God being ignorant about any subject.
The subject the author picks is: future free choices. This is a mystery to God's omniscient mind. He cannot know it except as "maybe this and maybe that or maybe not after all". Most of what God supposedly knows about our free futures is a big divine Maybe?
After all the casemaking and all the arguments and intellect and Bible quoting, I came away with "Maybe?" in the mind of God. In all my years as a Christian, I never imagined a deity who is limited in awareness of anything at all.
If you were to ask me before reading this, "Does anyone claiming to be Christian sincerely believe that anything is a Mystery, an Unknown or Unknowable to God?",I would have said no. I admit I was wrong. Looks like this writer is leading a small minority of renegade, fugitive, wayward seekers into just this system of philosophy.
I can only pray for the Holy Spirit's loving intervention to reach these brothers & sisters with what God Himself thinks about free futures, including theirs! Kyrie Eleison!
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Title: The God Who Risks: A Theology of Providence by John Sanders ISBN: 0830815015 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Openness of God: A Biblical Challenge to the Traditional Understanding of God by Clark H. Pinnock, Richard Rice, John Sanders, William Hasker ISBN: 0830818529 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Is God to Blame?: Moving Beyond Pat Answers to the Problem of Evil by Gregory A. Boyd ISBN: 0830823948 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Divine Foreknowledge: 4 Views by James K. Beilby, Paul R. Eddy, Gregory A. Boyd, David Hunt, William Lane Craig, Paul Helm, James K. Belby ISBN: 0830826521 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: God at War: The Bible & Spiritual Conflict by Gregory A. Boyd ISBN: 0830818855 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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