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Heart of the Living God Love, Free Will, Foreknowledge, and Heaven A Theology on the Treasure of Love
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Preface Maness asks us to “tie up our sneakers, for we are going to have some fun as we hike into the Grand Canyon of Love. Love is the treasure of life. It is Love all the way. Nothing else really matters outside of Love. Best of all, our Love will only get better in heaven.” The treasured ability to have a loving relationships is God’s gift to us in our Imago Dei—the image of God we all share. Likewise, what we know of Love this side of heaven is but a dusty image of what God experiences. “I want to get personally involved,” says Maness. “Can we have a free-will relationship with anyone, even God, if all of what we do and think is settled? I don’t think so. Love is greater than that, and I shall prove that, and that is indeed a Grand Canyon.” Manes brings some of the brain-splitting complexities of this to light with good humor, introduces dynamic foreknowledge, and challenges Classical Theism’s avoidance of Love. And he exposes some foul play in the process. That’s the first half of the book. For those wanting to strike out on their own (wanting to see more of the depth and diversity of the Grand Canyon), the second half contains synopsis-reviews of 60+ major authors, a 4,000+ Abysmal Bibliography, and a huge index to just about everything in the book. Maness has thrown a gauntlet before the Classical Theists. So … tie up your sneakers and take a hike with Michael G. Maness as he walks with you into the Grand Canyon.
see below: Contents ~ Ethics Bibliography Set ~ MASTERS ~ ETS
Grand Canyon Vista—Short Contents
Grand Canyon Expanse—Extended Contents < click to go down Preface — Hi ... I am Gonna to Defend My Daddy Introduction to Hiking the Grand Canyon < click to go down to each chapter 1. Grand Canyon of God’s Genuine Real-time Concern 3. Genuineness & Dynamic Foreknowledge 4. Craig-Pinnock Dilemma & Dynamic Foreknowledge 5. Christ-Freedom Dynamic Truth 6. Shadow of Prayer Dynamic Truth 7. Imago Dei—God the Source of Our Relationships 8. HEAVEN ~ Part 1: Our Everlasting Rest 9. HEAVEN ~ Part II: Simple, Elemental Experiences 10. HEAVEN ~ Part III: Greater Experiences Epilogue: How to Get to Heaven Final Challenge & Larger Context
APPENDIX 1. Master Canyon Guide Literature Reviews APPENDIX 2. Intro to Appendices 3-6, ETS Sources, Context APPENDIX 3. Hezekiah Letter-Roger Nicole vs. Clark Pinnock APPENDIX 4. Timothy George’s “What God Knows” APPENDIX 5. L. Russ Bush’s ETS Letters & Book The Advancement APPENDIX 6. Journal on Open Theism: JETS (June 2002) APPENDIX 7. Paige Patterson’s Letter—Maness Mistaken APPENDIX 8 Grand Canyon Map of Where You & I Hiked
Grand
Canyon Panorama ~ viii
Preface – the Treasure of Love ~ 1
Introduction to Hiking the Grand Canyon ~ 3
A. Let’s Go to the Grand Canyon ~ 3
B. My
Grasshopper Story … Cricket, Cricket ~ 4
1. Grasshopper & the Belly of the Beast ~ 4
2. To My Chums … More Precious as the Years Go By ~ 6
3. Living As Though the Future was Open—Not Anymore ~ 7
C. Heart of the Living God is Love ~ 8
1. Love, the Heart of God ~ 8
2. God’s Dynamic Foreknowledge: First Primer ~ 11
D. This Book—Genuineness Is so Very Special ~ 12
1. Chum, We’ll Walk with Freedom & Gusto—Whosoever! ~ 12
2. What Is Not Settled?—the True Question on the Future ~ 22
3. Wow!—2,300+ Years of Struggle? ~ 22
4. Book’s Progression & Swirl Inside Ethic’s Tumultuous Waters ~
23
E. Love Everlasting … Heaven … the Best is Yet to Come ~ 24
1. Grand Canyon of God’s Genuine Loving Concern
~ 25
A. Storm Blowing—Hope It Doesn’t Rain ~ 25
1. Preparing to Take a Hike ~ 25
2. Classical Theism—Absolute Divine Sovereignty ~ 26
3. Open Theism—God’s Ability to be with You Today ~ 31
4. The “Personal” is Taboo & Future of Free Love, even Heaven? ~
32
B. Darn! Too Late … Look at All of the Rain! ~ 34
1. Classical Theists Do Not Like Open Theists ~ 34
2. Spit and the Spawn of Satan—Where … Is … the Beef? ~ 36
3. If a Grasshopper … heck ~ 38
4. A Storm Is Blowing—Hear the Rain on Hezekiah & John 3:16 ~ 39
C. Can God Feel Joy and Sadness Today? ~ 41
D. Love … the Greatest—the Treasury of Our Heart ~ 45
E. Sunrise at the Grand Canyon—You Have to See it! ~ 59 2. Foreknowledge and the Future ~ 61
First
View of the Grand Canyon ~ 61
1. Legend Has It … Two Sides of the Grand Canyon ~ 61
2. The Big Stink … Classical Theist Avoidance & Genuineness ~ 64
3. William Lane Craig—the Best Classical Defense ~ 65
4. Middle Knowledge & Freedom in Christ ~ 66
5. Middle Knowledge a Great Piece of Backtracking Speculation ~
67
6. Three Concerns Between Open & Classical Theism: A-C ~ 69
A.
Omniscient-Omnipresent Attribute of God ~ 71
1. Omniscient-Omnipresent Attribute—Grand Canyon Strata ~ 71
2. Omniscient-Omnipresence & Foreknowledge—Dice ~ 72
3. Omniscient-Omnipresence & Foreknowledge—Limits? ~ 73
4. Omniscient-Omnipresence & Foreknowledge—Responses ~ 75
5. Omniscient-Omnipresence & Foreknowledge—Freshness ~ 77
B.
Foreknown Response Quotient (FRQ) ~ 80
1. Assumed Pillar of Truth ~ 80
2. Time Travel Possible Only in Classical Theism’s Settled
Future! ~ 83
3. FRQ—God Knows the Next Response ~ 83
4. FRQ—A Bedrock of Concurrence ~ 87
5. FRQ—God’s Aliveness and Isaiah 46 and 55 ~ 87
6. What’s Important About the Future—God’s Purposes & Counsel ~
89
C. Conjecture: Time a Non-Entity, Non-Substantial ~ 89
1. Alpha & Omega: Erickson, Tillich, Craig, Padgett, & Hasker ~
89
2. Tenseless Sense, Senseless Tense, Tenseless-Senseless
Timelessness, or Relational Sense? ~ 93
3. Time Irrelevant to God—Shot Dead by Eternity’s Golden Arrows ~
94 3. Genuineness & Dynamic Foreknowledge ~ 97
A.
God & the Existence of the Future ~ 98
1. God’s Word & Promises Are More Certain than the Future ~ 98
2. Heaven’s Banquet—Has God Settled All?—Ephesians 1:3-14 ~ 99
3. Trusting God Now Is More Important than the Future ~ 102
4. Exhaustive … So What? … What’s the Relevance? ~ 102
5. Relationship More Important than the Existence of the Future ~
103
6. Relationship in Two Dynamic Truths Supercedes FRQ ~ 104
B.
God’s Dynamic Foreknowledge: Second Primer ~ 105
1. God’s Exhaustive Foreknowledge of the Next 5 Seconds ~ 105
2. God’s Dynamic Foreknowledge: Second Primer ~ 111
3. God’s Dynamic Foreknowledge and Inspiration ~ 114
C. First Doctrine of Genuineness vs. Lordship in Frame & Feinberg ~ 116
1. Genuine Relationship the First Doctrine in the Theology of God
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2. John S. Feinberg’s World-Class No One Like Him ~ 118
3. John Frame’s World-Class The Doctrine of God ~ 122
4. Feinberg and Frame—the Tip of the Classical Theist Sword ~ 124
5. What Happened to Love’s Treasure? ~ 124
6. God the Father … not Lord King Gong ~ 125
7. My Daddy’s Bigger than Frame’s Daddy-Author … Waaah! ~ 127
D.
Genuineness—Supreme First Doctrine in Theology of God ~ 131
1. Image Side of the Image-Maker ~ 131
2. Genuineness the First Doctrine—No Issue More Important ~ 135 4. Craig-Pinnock Dilemma & Dynamic
Foreknowledge ~ 139
A. Craig-Pinnock Dilemma & Bridge-Building 101 ~ 140
1. Craig-Pinnock Dilemma ~ 140
2. Farthest Point of Progress—Which Way Do We Go? ~ 142
3. Bridge-Building 101 … What Do We Share? ~ 143
4. Craig-Pinnock Dilemma & God’s Foreknowledge ~ 145
5. Prayer—The Beginning of Progress ~ 146
B. Dynamic Foreknowledge a Servant not a Master ~ 150
1. God’s Dynamic Foreknowledge a Servant to His Loving Heart ~
150
2. Dynamic Foreknowledge Entail God’s Own Responses—? ~ 152
3. Our God Is Alive—Dynamite & the Example of Dynamism ~ 157 5. Christ-Freedom Dynamic Truth ~ 159
A.
Grand Canyon Village—Oh, Yeah! ~ 159
1. Village People—Our Nature and Destiny ~ 159
2. E. Y. Mullims on Freed Village People ~ 160
2. River Wild and the Christian Life ~ 163
3. Freedom’s Wild Ride & Bauckham’s “Infinitely Desirable” ~ 164
B.
Christ-Freedom Dynamic & G. C. Berkouwer ~ 167
1. Freedom: Freed From and Freed To ~ 167
2. Freedom Defined by the Child of God’s Submission ~ 171
3. Freedom: Our True Humanness in Resurrection Service to God ~
175
4. Freedom = Dignity of Humanity ~ 179
D.
Freedom and Service in God’s Kingdom ~ 181
1. Freedom to Serve as Sons & Daughters Here & Hereafter ~ 181
2. Freedom vs. Sin: Overcome only in Faith ~ 183
E.
Freedom Challenging Classical Theism ~ 185
F.
Freedom and Our Resurrection ~ 186
1. Freedom Is Divinely Empowered ~ 186
2. Freedom and Mr. Ed, the Horse’s Horse ~ 187
3. Freedom by God’s Power & the Classical Theism Burden ~ 190 6. Shadow of Prayer Dynamic Truth ~ 193
A. Prayer: the Splendor & Essence of the Christian Life ~ 193
1. Prayer Explained … the Radiant Color of Life ~ 193
2. Splendor of Prayer—First Step of Obedience ~ 197
3. Prayer—Crucial to the Entire Struggle & Civilization ~ 198
4. Prayer—Master Canyon Guide Richard Foster ~ 202
C.
Prayer Degraded in Classical Theism ~ 208
1. Classical Theist Effigies—Pushing a Mule Backwards ~ 208
2. Yuck, Yuck Stuff—Bruce Ware’s Soggy Effigy … and Eeyore ~ 212
3. Relationship with Our Heavenly Father, Abba ~ 221
D.
Beyond Puppet Theology & Father Time to Father God ~ 224
1. Onward Christian Soldiers … Not Onward Passive Puppets ~ 224
2. Craig-Pinnock Dilemma & Prayer Indicate Some Freedom ~ 229
3. Beyond Information Exchange & Imperial Fatherhood to Abba ~
230
7. Imago Dei—God the Source of Our Relationships ~ 235
Bridge Building 201: We Have a Beginning ~ 235
A.
Our Imago Dei—the Quintessence of Loving Relationships ~ 236
1. Our Imago Dei—the Spark of God Is Our Ability to Relate ~ 236
2. Our Imago Dei—a Liberating Image in Middleton ~ 238
3. Our Imago Dei—Shell of Love’s Labors for All Human Beings ~
240
4. Our Imago Dei—Our Ability to Relate to God & Others ~ 248
5. Our Imago Dei—Our Love the Mere Image of God’s Love ~ 252
6. Our Imago Dei—Ability to have Awe in Loving Relationships ~
253
7. Our Imago Dei—Our Love Transcends Time like God’s Love ~ 257
8. Our Imago Dei—Treasuring the Moment of Love ~ 258
B. God’s Love Is Dynamic … Alive ~ 265
1. What Changes for God? Not Same 1,000 Years Ago as Today ~ 265
2. Can God’s Perfected Love Grow? ~ 271
3. Difference between God’s Foreknowledge & Experience? ~ 274
4. God’s Love Steadfast, Dynamic, Crimson Shades to Infinity ~
278
C.
Going Home—Free at Last ~ 279
1. Where Time, Free will, Sovereignty, and Foreknowledge
2. Going Home—Seeing God’s Heart Dissipates Sovereignty ~ 280 8. HEAVEN ~ Part I: Our Everlasting Rest ~ 283
Preface on Heaven: Origin of These Chapters—Serendipitous, Providential
~ 283
Outline of Heaven ~ 285
Revelation 21:1-14 ~ 286
Introduction to the Heaven of Revelation 21-22 ~ 287
1. Heaven—the Place & Blessed Experience ~ 287
2. Heaven a Good Season of Love: Baxter & Boston ~ 290
3. Love & The Glory of Heaven by John MacArthur ~ 291
4. Heaven’s Supreme Delight—Unbroken Fellowship with God ~ 292
5. Best Is Yet to Come—Heaven—Personal to the Uttermost ~ 293
6. Heaven—Last Chapter in Our Genuine Relationship with God ~ 295
A. Heaven Is Perfected Everlasting Love—No Eye Has Seen ~ 296
1. Visual Boundary: What Eye Hath Not Seen ~ 296
2. Revelation 21-22 & the Holy City—Personal &
Dynamic ~ 297
3. Holy City = the Picture of Perfected Everlasting
Love ~ 299
B. Picture Worth a Thousand Words—Words Can Say More ~ 301
C. Similarities Between Two Passages: Rev. 21:1-8 & 21:9-22:6 ~
304
1. Descending Holy City Is the Same City in Both
Passages ~ 304
2. Five Similarities Between the Two Passages ~ 305
3. Conclusion on the Similarities—God’s Marriage
Fresh to Him ~ 307
4. Open Wedding Feast—RSVP Now, Before It’s too
Late! ~ 310
5. Fresh Wedding Feast—No More Clear Picture of
Intimacy ~ 313 9. HEAVEN ~ Part II: Simple, Elemental
Experiences ~ 317
A. Simple, Elemental Experiences of Heaven ~ 317
1. Difference Between Earth and Heaven—Dream, Dream, Dream ~ 317
2. New Freedom: No More Tears, Death or Curse ~ 320
3. New Economy: Spring and River and Tree of Life ~ 321
4. New Purity and Peace: No More Evil People ~ 321
B. Cloudy Dark Side of Living Obscures the True Fullness ~ 322
1. Between the Clouds of Earth and the Clear Skies of Heaven ~
322
2. What We Know Here … a Cloudy Shadow of Heaven ~ 324
3. Simple Experiences Versus the Greater Experiences of Heaven ~
325 10. HEAVEN ~ Part III: Greater Experiences ~
329
A.
Greater Experiences of Heaven ~ 329
1. Earth and Heaven Connected—C. H. Spurgeon ~ 329
2. Holy City as Bride & Wife of the Lamb ~ 331
3. Great Wall Reveals an Everlasting Security ~ 338
B.
Recap of Heaven ~ 341
C. Greatest Experience—Sharing in God’s Life & Glory ~ 343
Conclusion ~ 346 Epilogue: How to Get to Heaven ~ 349 Final Challenge & Larger Context ~ 350
A. Grasshopper Gauntlet—Two Challenges to Classical Theists ~ 350
B.
Book’s Larger Context—My Would You Lie to Save a Life? ~ 351 Appendix 1. Master Canyon Guides:
Synopsis-Reviews ~ 352
Craig-Pinnock Dilemma: Literature Review Conclusion. ~ 353
Synopsis-Reviews of 60+ Scholars in Books & Articles ~ 355 Appendix 2. Intro to Appendices 3-6 &
Grasshopper Story ~ 473
1.
Grasshopper Hops & Questions His Teachers ~ 473
2.
Grasshopper’s Grass-filled Story ~ 474
3.
Grasshopper Canvases of Ad Hominy & Boundaries ~ 475
4.
Grasshopper & Rice-Bowl Theology ~ 477
5.
Grasshopper’s Critics ~ 478 Appendix 3. Hezekiah Letter on Roger Nicole vs.
Clark Pinnock ~ 481 Appendix 4. Timothy George’s “What God Knows” ~
494 Appendix 5. L. Russ Bush’s ETS Letters & Book
The Advancement ~ 500 Appendix 6. Journal on Open Theism: JETS (June
2002) ~ 509
1.
Ware’s “Defining Evangelicalism’s Boundaries” ~ 510
2.
Pinnock’s “There is Room For Us” ~ 513
3.
Sanders’ “Be Wary of Ware” ~ 514
4.
Boyd’s “Christian Love and Academic Dialogue” ~ 516
5.
Ware’s “Rejoinder to Pinnock, Sanders, & Boyd” ~ 519
6.
Wellum’s “Divine Sovereignty-Omniscience” ~ 520
7.
Highfield’s “Divine Self-Limitation in Open Theism” ~ 525
8.
Grenze’s “Boundaried People and Evangelical Theology” ~ 531
9.
Horton “Hellenistic or Hebrew?” ~ 533 Appendix 7. Paige Patterson—A Challenge ~ 542 Appendix 8. Wayne Grudem on the Gift of
Prophecy ~ 560 Appendix 9. C. H. Spurgeon on Love—Two Fine
Sermons ~ 562 Appendix 10. Grand Canyon Map of Where You & I
Hiked ~ 574 Abysmal Bibliography ~ 575
1.
Love Bibliography ~ 576
2.
Free will, Foreknowledge, Some Prayer & Theology Bibliography ~ 583
3.
Time Bibliography ~ 637
4.
Dissertations on Free Will, Foreknowledge, Time ~ 640
5.
Articles: Free Will, Foreknowledge, Determinism, Etc. ~ 643 Grand Canyon Fishing Index ~ 667 Other Books by Author ~ 693 Appendices Expanded APPENDIX 1. Master Canyon Guide Literature Reviews ~ Top Contents Craig-Pinnock Dilemma: Literature Review Conclusion. Literature Review of 25 Important Works 1. Craig, William Lane. The Only Wise God 2. Pinnock, Clark H. Most Moved Mover 3. Sanders, John. The God Who Risks 4. Boyd, Gregory A. God of the Possible 5. Maston, T.B. God’s Will and Your Life 6. Rice, John R. Predestined for HELL? NO! 7. Hunt, David. What Love Is This? 8. Basinger, D., & R. Basinger. Predestination & Free Will Introduction. A. Feinberg’s Position & Counters. B. Geisler’s Position & Counters. C. Reichenbach’s Position & Counters. D. Pinnock’s Position & Counters. 9. Beilby, J., & P. Eddy. Divine Foreknowledge: Four Views 10. Zagzebski, Linda. “Recent Work on Divine Foreknowledge” 11. May, Rollo. Freedom and Destiny 12. Erickson, Millard. What Does God Know 13. Packer, J. I. Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God 14. Geisler, Norman. Chosen But Free 15. Spurgeon, C. H. Sermons on Sovereignty 16. Strong, August H. Systematic Theology 17. White, James R. The Potter’s Freedom 18. Boettner, L. Reformed Doctrine of Predestination 19. Frame, John M. No Other God 20. Ware, Bruce A. God’s Lesser Glory 21. Piper, Taylor, Helseth. Beyond the Bounds Preface by John Piper Introduction by Justin Taylor 1. Fuller’s “Rabbis & Claims of Openness Advocates” 2. Chad Brand’s “Genetic Defects or Accidental Similarities” 3. Talbot’s “True Freedom & Liberty Worth Having” 4. Davis’ “Why Open Theism Is Flourishing Now” 5. Caneday’s “God’s Self-Revelation in Human Likeness” 6. Horton’s “Hellenistic or Hebrew?” 7. Wellum’s “Inerrancy of Scripture” 8. Helseth’s “Trustworthiness of God & Foundation of Hope” 9. Ware’s “The gospel of Christ” 10. Grudem’s “When, Why, & What ... Boundaries?” 11. John Piper’s “Grounds for Dismay” 22. Huffman & Johnson. God Under Fire 1. Huffman & Johnson’s “Should the God be Replaced?” 2. Talbot’s “Does God Reveal Who He Is?” 3. Johnson’s “Can God be Grasped by Reason?” 4. Bray’s “Has the Greek Philosophy Corrupted Christianity?” 5. Helm’s “Is God Bound by Time?” 6. Craig’s “What Does God Know?” 7. Geivett’s “How Do we Answer Theodicy?” 8. Spiegel’s “Does God Take Risks?” 9. Lee’s “Does God have Emotions?” 10. Gutenson’s “Does God Change?” 11. Ware’s “How so We Think on the Trinity?” 12. Carson’s “How Can We Reconcile Love & Sovereignty?” 23. Wilson, Douglas. Bound Only Once 24. Dihle, Albrecht. Theory of Will in Classical Antiquity 25. Great Classics: Augustine to Wesley and More APPENDIX 2. Intro to Appendices 3-6, ETS Sources, Context ~ Top Contents A. Grasshopper Questions His Teachers 1. Grasshopper Hops 2. Grasshopper’s Vagabond Story 3. Grasshopper Canvases of Ad Hominy & Boundaries 4. Grasshopper & Rice-Bowl Theology 5. Grasshopper’s Critics C. ETS Primary Web Sources & Grasshopper Initiatives D. Larger Context of This Book 1. Grasshopper’s Book: Would You Lie to Save a Life? 2. The Case Against Radical Fundamentalism APPENDIX 3. Hezekiah Letter-Roger Nicole vs. Clark Pinnock ~ Top Contents Introduction to Hezekiah Letter My Initial Excitement & Some Misguided Firepower A. How God Related to Hezekiah 1. Why Did God Cater to Hezekiah in 2 Kings 20:1-11? 2. Difference Between Fidelity & Interpolation 3. Nicole’s Violation of the ETS Larger than Pinnock’s 4. Pinnock Closer to the Text 5. Nicole Crushed by His Own Standard B. Fidelity to the Text Is the Main Issue Epilogue: Final Heartfelt Plea APPENDIX 4. Timothy George’s “What God Knows” ~ Top Contents 1. Open Theism a Source of Conflict & Confusion 2. Classical Theism Superior in Theodicy-Are You Sure? 3. Open Theism More Powerfully Exculpates God, yet Theodicy Is Not the Engine of Open Theism 4. George’s “Seminiscient” Deity of Open Theism a Misnomer 5. Ultimate Split Infinitive: Eternal v. Everlasting & Open Theism’s Actual Engine-Genuineness 6. Missing the Engine of Genuineness Is a Serious Oversight APPENDIX 5. L. Russ Bush’s ETS Letters & Book The Advancement ~ Top Contents A. L. Russ Bush Dialogue: Integrity vs. Myth-Busting B. L. Russ Bush’s The Advancement—A New Level of Acrimony See Appendix 5: Critique of L. Rush Bush's The Advancement APPENDIX 6. Journal on Open Theism: JETS (June 2002) ~ Top Contents 1. Ware’s “Defining Evangelicalism’s Boundaries” 2. Pinnock’s “There is Room For Us” 3. Sanders’ “Be Wary of Ware” 4. Boyd’s “Christian Love and Academic Dialogue” 5. Ware’s “Rejoinder to Pinnock, Sanders, & Boyd” 6. Wellum’s “Divine Sovereignty-Omniscience” 7. Highfield’s “Function of Divine Self-Limitation in Open Theism” 8. Grenze’s “Boundaried People and Evangelical Theology” 9. Horton’s “Hellenistic or Hebrew?” APPENDIX 7. Paige Patterson Challenged ~ Top Contents See Here: Paige Patterson Challenge A. My History with Paige Patterson 1. Patterson’s Rejection of Me & Question of ETS Integrity 2. Patterson a Commander in the Theological Trade Winds 3. Why This Challenge to Patterson 4. Patterson a Legend in His Own Time 5. Patterson a Father-figure & My Own Transference 6. Patterson, Open Theism, Love, and My Conscience 7. Patterson’s Letter vis-à-vis the ETS Documents B. I Challenge Paige Patterson—Gulp!—Heave to & Come About 1. Patterson and ETS Confusion 2. Patterson’s Troubled Triumphant Church & Other Deficits 3. Clay Feet and Leadership … Yet Honor Demands Something 4. The Challenge—Gulp !—Heave To & Come About on Genuineness C. Final Grasshopper Cricket P.S.: Return to the Scriptures a Good Idea Item #1. Paige Patterson’s Letter Oct. 6, 2003
APPENDIX 8. Grand Canyon Map of Where You & I Hiked ~ Top Contents APPENDIX 9. Spurgeon on Love--Two Fine Sermons ~ Top Contents 1. Love at Its Utmost, John 15:9, Sept. 11, 1887 2. Love's Climax, 1 John 4:10, Jan. 6, 1895 Abysmal Bibliography ~ Top Contents 1. Love Bibliography ----->>> see fuller bibliographies below 2. Free will, Foreknowledge, Some Prayer & Theology Bibliography 3. Time Bibliography 4. Dissertations on Free Will, Foreknowledge, Time 5. Articles: Free Will, Foreknowledge, Determinism, Etc. 6. Heaven Bibliography 7. Revelation of Christ Bibliography Grand Canyon Fishing Index ~ Top Contents
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These appendices appear in Heart of the Living God challenging Classical Theism's war on Open Theism. Primarily directed to esteemed members of the Evangelical Theological Society, these three scholars have directed severe and at times mistaken criticisms against Open Theism. I offer a counterpoint challenge to each to support Pinnock against Nicole. Appendix 3. Hezekiah--Nicole vs. Pinnock and God’s Sovereign Ability to Respond fidelity to the biblical text is the real issue
Appendix 4. Timothy George’s
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Russ Bush's Two Letters to ETS Members on Please bare in mind, these had no significant bearing upon the ETS committee, as each member was quite capable in their own right ETS Committee Reports President David Howard's Letter - October 24, 2003 ETS Executive Committee Report on Clark H. Pinnock - 10-22-03 ~ Clark Pinnock's Response - October 17, 2003 ETS Executive Committee Report on John E. Sanders - 10-23-03 ~ John Sanders' Response - October 23, 2003 Remarks to the Executive Committee of the ETS by John Sanders. October 3, 2002 Dr. Nicole Letter ~ Dr. Nicole Post Card ~ Statement from Bruce Ware |
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corrections, we find no grounds for excluding him from membership in the ETS." On John Sanders: 7-2: Majority: "this difference is so significant that it is not merely another option within inerrancy, but is incompatible with it." Blaising, Bock, Borland, Erickson, Grudem, Köstenberger, Sailhamer Minority: not agreeing with Open Theism, still, "we do not recommend that the charges against John Sanders be sustained." Beale, Howard |
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see: Contents ~ Ethics-Character Bibliography Set ~ MASTERS ~ Top ~ ETS THEOLOGICAL MASTERS MASTERS. The following is a selection of classical masters on the free-will/foreknowledge debate. Another reason for not including these here is, again, William Lane Craigand my looking at his The Problem of Divine Foreknowledge and Future Contingents from Aristotle to Suarez(Studies in Intellectual History 7. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1988), which is a masterpiece of condensation and a truly seminal addition to the literature. If you want to understand Augustine’s understanding, go here first.
Places like
www.newadvent.org/fathers for the Catholics have the entire
collection of Church Fathers—a
magnificent collection and one of the internet’s best collection of
Christian classics. Here are a few other sites with
compilations of classics.
Already entire libraries of famous Christians and others are available online. Enterprises like Questia are seeking to put tens of thousands of reference works on line—still for a fee. Even so, thousands of classics and modern works are available for free Perhaps in the distant future everything in the Library of Congress and other major libraries will be available for free and accessible to everyone on the planet. How that would changethe world and world’s economy.
Saint
Aurelius Augustine (396-430). On Nature and Grace, Against Pelagius:
Contained in One Book, Addressed to Timasius and Jacobus.
Saint Aurelius Augustine (396-430).
The Enchiridion (Handbook) on Faith, Hope and Love.
Saint Aurelius Augustine (396-430). A Treatise on Grace and Free
Will: Addressed to Valentinus and the Monks of Adrumetum.
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225?-1274) The Summa
Theologica:
Jonathan Edwards
(1703-1758).
A Careful And Strict Inquiry into
Boettner, Loraine. The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination. The Christian theology of Predestination is all about God's supremacy. In a way, and in the light of the Would You Lie to Save a Life, Calvinism could almost be called a manifesto for Christian Elitism, but we stop short. Even Augustine a 1,000 years before Calvin articulated the doctrine of God's supremacy. Yet there is hardly a biblical Christian who doubts the supremacy of God or doubts that the Christian has some degree of “free will” responsibility in the doing of God’s will—at least to the extent to simple decisions to help others and avoid criminal behavior. The major questions arise in how that supremacy impacts salvation and the individual's eternal destiny. Practically, the doctrine of God's supremacy informs us about the "nature" of our responsibility, and the most imponderable questions of all arise with respect to the degree of our free will in the light of God's supremacy. With respect to salvation, it is the "gift" of God through faith, not of works, no doubt; and salvation is wholly of God. A full understanding will escape us this side of heaven. When I pursued information on the best work on Calvinism (outside of Calvin himself, and reflecting the more popular theological offspring of Calvin), this book by Boettner was at the top of the list as the classic. The following is only about a third of its most salient topics, including several full chapters. One point of concern, as good number of "Calvinists" today will readily admit, they do not follow fully all five points of Calvinism, simply the four point, allowing an "unlimited" atonement in salvation. The point? Boettner clearly says that "all" five points stand or fall together. It is quite a piece of work. But such a view of God limits God's freedom and ability to fully relate and respond to His children in the present. For God's sovereignty, there is no greater defender. However, the absence of material on capacity of God to genuinely relate to His people is not given the space it deserves. MORE to come.
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