On Monday (the Lord willing) I will post something here about open theism and the evangelical debate about it.\u00a0 For now, let me just say that I am very glad to see some of my former colleagues from that Christian liberal arts college (where I taught for 15 years) joining the discussion here.\u00a0 I want to say for their benefit that during that most\u00a0agonizing debate over open theism they, my colleagues, were always supportive.\u00a0 Even those who did not agree with open theism were supportive of those who were open theists and those who defended it (as I did) as not heresy.\u00a0 The reason I concluded it would not remain a safe place to be outspokenly Arminian had to do with powerful pastors whose arguments against open theism were recognizably also arguments against classical Arminianism (even though they were not explicitly framed that way).\u00a0 I saw that IF they won their case against open theism, for the reasons they were putting forth, Arminianism was next.\u00a0 But I never felt anything except support from my colleagues throughout the college and seminary.\u00a0 So, next week\u2013something about open theism and the evangelical debate over it throughout the 1990s and into this century.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On Monday (the Lord willing) I will post something here about open theism and the evangelical debate about it.\u00a0 For now, let me just say that I am very glad to see some of my former colleagues from that Christian liberal arts college (where I taught for 15 years) joining the discussion here.\u00a0 I want […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n