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Openness Theodicy

Paul Helm, “God’s Providence Takes No Risks”

21st Century Thinkers, Openness Theodicy, Responses to the Problem of Evil & the Problem of Pain

This essay is a contribution to theodicy—the justifying of God’s ways to humankind—in the face of the many evils of our world. But it is offered as a modest contribution to such a project, in fact, a very modest contribution. One kind of evil consists of the personal evils that occur in a life which […]

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John Sanders, “God, Evil, and Relational Risk”

21st Century Thinkers, Openness Theodicy, Responses to the Problem of Evil & the Problem of Pain

Open theism is a view of the divine nature and the God-world relationship that arises out of what may be called the free will tradition of Christian thought. Although this theology of openness is not new in most respects compared to traditional Christian theism, it contains particular emphases and several new elements that together render

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