Good GOD i remember this...we had to read some for my providence, evil and suffering class last spring. i found it REALLY interesting and disturbing. i also am too orthodox for this stuff. i acknowledge the appeal of having to love back voluntarily, but that doesn't make it true. or necessary if you really give it thought. you can choose to do something and obey at the same time. openness theology doesn't deal adequately with human brokenness, but it DOES raise questions that i think are important for its opponants to consider. for example,isn't there an argument associated with openness theology that predestination binds God as much as it binds us? i read an article yesterday that referred to openness theology and i freaked because i KNEW i'd studied it, and couldn't for the life of me remember what it was or what i'd studied. process theology i've never studied....probably because kendall doesn't like it. in anycase i'm pretty much in the middle. i believe in divine sovereignty AND free will. neither one explains the whole picture well enough to satisfy me and scripture uses BOTH to talk about God's relationship to his children. Therefore, i sit on my rage that life doesn't make sense and tell myself there are things more important than wrapping my brain around life. it hurts, but i do it.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Re: To continue again
Date: 2005-11-17 12:23 pm (UTC)you can choose to do something and obey at the same time. openness theology doesn't deal adequately with human brokenness, but it DOES raise questions that i think are important for its opponants to consider. for example,isn't there an argument associated with openness theology that predestination binds God as much as it binds us?
i read an article yesterday that referred to openness theology and i freaked because i KNEW i'd studied it, and couldn't for the life of me remember what it was or what i'd studied.
process theology i've never studied....probably because kendall doesn't like it.
in anycase i'm pretty much in the middle. i believe in divine sovereignty AND free will. neither one explains the whole picture well enough to satisfy me and scripture uses BOTH to talk about God's relationship to his children. Therefore, i sit on my rage that life doesn't make sense and tell myself there are things more important than wrapping my brain around life. it hurts, but i do it.