God of the Possible: A Biblical Introduction to the Open View of God
A Theology, Christian, Spirituality book. It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a...
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It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons. Gregory A. Boyd, God of the Possible: A Biblical Introduction to the Open View of God Biblically, God is repeatedly depicted as facing a partially open future. Theologically, several unsolvable problems inherent in the classical view can be avoided when one accepts that God is the God of the possible and not simply a God of eternally static certainties. Practically, a God of eternally static certainties is incapable of interacting with humans in a relevant way. The God of the possible, by contrast, is a God who can work with us to truly change what might have been into what should be. Gregory A. Boyd, God of the Possible: A Biblical...
For friends I have recommended this to: my five star rating was ALMOST a four star, since I would hardly call myself an evangelical Christian. But objectively, I found this book to be highly internally consistent, and therefore an excellent case for the open view of the future. So even though I don't necessarily agree with the evangelical... This book was fine. I felt like a lot of the book was a conversation I've already had. This is in no way meant to diminish the book, rather, it didn't scratch the itch I thought it might. Nevertheless, I can think of several people who I would like to have read this book.The highlight of the book, to me, seems to be tucked into the... Boyd invites his readers to consider something that might be new to them, in thinking about God and free will and the future. In so doing, he addresses questions of theodicy and God's involvement in history, and teaches readers a way of approaching the Bible that is consistent both Biblically and with accepting a world of probabilities...
