Credo-On Open Theism
Open Theism represents the decline of theological thinking in the latter half of the 20th century. Basically, open theists deny the historical understanding of the omniscience of God. Reading through The Openness of God, I was struck by the thought that Clark Pinnock and his cohorts looked back at church history with certain condescension and “pat on the head’ to the Augustine’s and John Wesley’s of the world.
Process Philosophy predated this theology by several decades and looks much like it with the absence of Bible verses.
Interestingly, no one of note in church history really held it-either Arminian or Calvinist, Protestant, Catholic or Orthodox.
Usually, adherants of this unusual and unique persuasion mistakenly label anyone who disagrees with them as a “Calvinist”. Twenty-first century historic Arminian, Thomas Oden disagrees at a decibel level of jet engines with open theism. He is certainly not a Calvinist”.
Isaiah tells us in chapters 40-48 that God knows the future-absolutely.