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Open theism (Topical Term)

Number of records used in: 4

Preferred form: Open theism

Used for/see from:

Free-will theism
God, Open view of
God, Openness of
Neotheism
Open view of God
Openness of God
Openness theology
Theism, Open

See also:

Broader heading: Theology, Doctrinal

Notes

Work cat.: 2003065896: House, H. Charts on open theism and orthodoxy, 2003: CIP galley (open theism; openness theology) CIP data sheet (openness of God; neotheism)

On doctrine WWW site, Nov. 3, 2003: Theol. terminology dict. page (open theism: "God ... does not control the future and is also unable to know the future....")

Wikipedia WWW site, Nov. 3, 2003 ("open theism, or free-will theism ... denies that God is able to know the future. Open theism posits that the mind of God is not settled concerning the future, about what will happen or even about what he will do to accomplish his purposes.")

Baker encyc. of Chr. apologetics ("neotheism: proponents of this view variously describe themseslves as holding the 'openness of God' view, or 'free-will theism,' by which they mean that God is open to change and that humans have free will as opposed to andy divine determinism of the future....")

LC database, Nov. 3, 2003 (open theism; openness of God)