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God in Our Image: Why Some Evangelicals Are Challenging the Traditional View of God
Vol. 8, No. 5 • Sep/Oct 1999
Evangelical theologian Clark Pinnock appears to be the leading spokesperson for a growing trend toward what he and his colleagues call the “openness of God” theology. In this system, “God does not control everything that happens,” or, for that matter, know everything that will happen. Rather, “In loving dialogue, God invites us to participate with […]
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Is the New News Good News?
Evangelical theologian Clark Pinnock appears to be the leading spokesperson for a growing trend toward what he and his colleagues call the “openness of God” theology. In this system, “God does not control everything that happens,” or, for that matter, know everything that will happen. Rather, “In loving dialogue, God invites us to participate with […]
“The Cross and Salvation” by Bruce Demarest
This work promises to be the first volume of a multi-author series entitled Foundations of Evangelical Theology. The title itself may raise some eyebrows, in light of the spectrum of theological opinions expressed in the evangelical community. Is there any distinctive system of doctrine that can coherently be called “evangelical theology”? This question is never […]
The Splendor of the Three-in-One God
“Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one!” In contrast to the polytheistic religions of her neighbors, Israel was made deeply conscious of the fact that there is only one God (hence, the term, “monotheism”). The monothe-istic doctrine of God is at the headwaters of the Christian faith, but it is the […]
Does God Know the Future?
Does God know the future? As a child in Sunday School, I was taught the answer to this question. My teachers comforted me with the certainty that God knows the future just as well as he knows the past and the present: in its entirety, down to the minutest detail. Moreover, I learned that God […]
Why the Glory of God Is at Stake in the “Foreknowledge” Debate
This article pre-supposes that true doctrine is the foundation of true delight. If we do not get our doctrine of God right, we will destroy the foundations of delight. Joy may flourish for a generation when the root is severed, but in the end, delight in God will die without true doctrine. And the glorification […]
“All Theology Is Christology”
In Lutheran denominational politics over the last decade, the phrase all theology is Christology has been exhaustively debated. Yet, though the statement and the resulting controversy arise from a particular Missouri Synod context, I submit that the substance of the debate is important to all who stand in the line of the Reformation tradition. Moreover, […]
