Philosophical Essays Against Open Theism

Benjamin H. Arbour is Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Weatherford College, USA

Introduction

Benjamin H. Arbour

Part I: Open Theism and the Metaphysics of Time

1. The Openness of God: Eternity and Free Will

Eleonore Stump

2. God’s Knowledge of an Unreal Future

Sandra Visser

3. A Few Worries About the Systematic Metaphysics of Open Future Open Theism

Benjamin H. Arbour

Part II: Open Theism and Other Philosophical Issues

4. Open Theism and Origins Essentialism: A New Argument Against Open Theism

David Alexander

5. The ‘Openness’ in Compatibilism

Paul Helm

6. Foreknowledge, Freedom, and Vicious Circles: Anselm vs. Open Theism

Katherin Rogers

7. On Open Theism, Either God Has False Beliefs, or I Can Know Something That God Cannot Know

Robert B. Stewart

Part III: Open Theism and Other Issues in Philosophical Theology

8. "May it Have Happened Lord!": Open Theism and Past Directed Prayers

James Anderson

9. Open Theism, Risk-Taking, and the Problem of Evil

Greg Welty

10. Open Theism and the Soteriological Problem of Evil

Kenneth Perszyk

11. Jesus Didn’t Die for Your Sins: Open Theism, Atonement, and the Pastoral Problem of Evil

Keith Wyma