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Ben Witherington and Roger Olson, “Roger Olson’s Arminian Theology – Part 15”

February 8, 2017 , SEA , Comment Closed

BEN: Your discussion of open theism is interesting, and I wonder if since your book was published (2006), you’ve settled the matter in your mind. For my part, I have rejected open theism. I think…

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Kevin Timpe, “Truth-making and Divine Eternity” (A Defense of the Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge and Libertarian Human Freedom)

February 29, 2016 , SEA , Comment Closed

Please click on the link to view Kevin Timpe, “Truth-making and Divine Eternity,” Religious Studies 43 (2007) 299–315. Here is the author’s abstract of the article: According to a widespread tradition in philosophical theology, God is necessarily…

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Lydia McGrew, “Before the Mountains Were Brought Forth: A Defense of Divine Timelessness”

September 4, 2014 , SEA , Comment Closed

Please click on the link to view Lydia McGrew, “Before the Mountains Were Brought Forth: A Defense of Divine Timelessness,” The Christendom Review: A Journal of the Philosophia Perennis 6.1 (2014).

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Open Theists’ Additions to Libertarian Free Will

June 12, 2014 , Godismyjudge , 1 Comment

Traditionally, Libertarians have guarded the definition of free will very closely. Libertarians don’t allow compatiblists to remove essential aspects from the concept of free will, like say, reducing ability to hypothetical ability. But while we…

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Jack Cottrell – Understanding God: God and Time

March 29, 2013 , Kevin Jackson , No Comment

An article by Arminian Theologian Jack Cottrell. Cottrell speculates about God’s relation to time, and the nature and extent of God’s foreknowledge. Is God timeless (outside of time)? Or does God experience time in some…

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Magic Hand-waving in the Calvinist Cause

March 5, 2013 , SEA , Comment Closed

I. Introduction This post responds to Calvinist scholar and assistant professor at Reformed Theological Seminary James Anderson’s latest rejoinder (“The Arminian Cause”) to me (specifically, to my last post: “Exposing Calvinist ‘Forgery’ in the Alleged…

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On Omnitemporality

September 15, 2010 , geraldowens , No Comment

One of the problems with attempting to discuss the issue of Foreknowledge as it relates to Free Will is that the term itself prejudices the discussion, bending it in a certain argumentative direction that the…

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