The Open Future, Free Will and Divine Assurance: responding to three common objections to the open view

In this essay I respond to three of the most forceful objections to the open view of the future. It is argued that a) open view advocates must deny bivalence; b) the open view offers no theodicy advantages over classical theism; and c) the open view can’t assure believers that God can work all thing...

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Main Author: Boyd, Gregory (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham [2015]
In: European journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 7, Issue: 3, Pages: 207-222
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Free will / Future / God / Plot
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
NBC Doctrine of God
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