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Tables of Contents for No Other God
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
11
4
What Is Open Theism?
15
10
The Rhetoric and the Reality
The Openness of the Sovereign God
Sovereign Vulnerability
The Ambiguities of Open Theism
The Open-Theist View of Traditional Theism
The Main Contentions of Open Theism
Where Does Open Theism Come From?
25
16
The Antiquity of Open Theism
God and the Greeks
Socinianism: the Missing Link in Open Theism's
Genealogy
More Recent Influences
What Is New About Open Theism?
How Do Open Theists Read the Bible?
41
8
Logic
Models
Straightforward Exegesis and Anthropomorphism
Is Love God's Most Important Attribute?
49
8
Love, Sensitivity, Responsiveness, and Vulnerability
Is God's Will the Ultimate Explanation of Everything?
57
32
The Natural World
Human History
Individual Human Lives
Human Decisions
Sins
Faith and Salvation
Summary Passages
How Do Open Theists Reply?
89
16
Universalizing Particulars?
Divine Foreordination Versus Human Responsibility?
What Kind of Election?
How Can God Act ``Now'' If He Acts ``Always''?
Other Open-Theist Objections
Is God's Will Irresistible?
105
14
Antecedent and Consequent Wills
Decretive and Preceptive Wills
Sanders's Distinction
The Efficacy of God's Will
Do We Have Genuine Freedom?
119
24
A Critique of Libertarianism
Other Kinds of Freedom
The Problem of Evil
Is God in Time?
143
18
Arguments Against Divine Atemporality
Philosophical Arguments for Divine Supratemporality
Scripture on God and Time
God's Temporal Omnipresence
Does God Change?
161
18
A God Who Relents
How Is God Unchanging?
Unchangeability and Temporal Omnipresence
Does God Suffer?
179
12
Aseity
Does God Have Feelings?
Is God Ever Weak?
Does God Suffer Death in Christ?
Does God Know Everything in Advance?
191
14
Divine Ignorance in Scripture?
God's Exhaustive Knowledge of the Future
Is Open Theism Consistent with Other Biblical Doctrines?
205
6
Biblical Inspiration
Sin
Redemption
Assurance
Heaven and Hell
Guidance
Conclusion
211
2
Bibiliography
213
8
Index of Scripture
221
8
Index of Names and Subjects
229