Voted one of Christianity Today's 1995 Books of the Year
The Openness of God presents a careful and full-orbed argument that the God known through Christ desires "responsive relationship" with his creatures. While it rejects process theology, the book asserts that such classical doctrines as God's immutability, impassibility and foreknowledge demand reconsideration.
The authors insist that our understanding of God will be more consistently biblical and more true to the actual devotional lives of Christians if we profess that "God, in grace, grants humans significant freedom" and enters into relationship with a genuine "give-and-take dynamic."
The Openness of God is remarkable in its comprehensiveness, drawing from the disciplines of biblical, historical, systematic and philosophical theology. Evangelical and other orthodox Christian philosophers have promoted the "relational" or "personalist" perspective on God in recent decades. Now here is the first major attempt to bring the discussion into the evangelical theological arena.
- ISBN10 085364635X
- ISBN13 9780853646358
- Publish Date 1 January 1995 (first published 22 September 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 September 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Send The Light
- Format Paperback
- Pages 240
- Language English