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Open Theism and “Most Moves Mover”: Temporality

by Jeremy Bouma | Nov 17, 2007 | Emerging Church, Theology | 0 Comments

Interacting with "Most Moved Mover" 1: Introduction 2: Hyper-Relationality 3: Sovereignty 4: Changeability 5: Temporality 6: Conclusion TEMPORALITY A final component to the open view of God is the concept of His temporality. While God is above Time, in the sense that...

Open Theism and “Most Moved Mover”: Changeability

by Jeremy Bouma | Nov 15, 2007 | Emerging Church, Theology | 0 Comments

Interacting with "Most Moved Mover" 1: Introduction 2: Hyper-Relationality 3: Sovereignty 4: Changeability 5: Temporality 6: Conclusion CHANGEABILITY If God “hyper-relationally” operates within our time and space, partners with us, engages us in conflict, binds...

Open Theism and “Most Moved Mover”: Sovereignty

by Jeremy Bouma | Nov 14, 2007 | Emerging Church, Theology | 1 Comment

Interacting with "Most Moved Mover" 1: Introduction 2: Hyper-Relationality 3: Sovereignty 4: Changeability 5: Temporality 6: Conclusion SOVEREIGNTY Because God is hyper-relational and purposefully crafted beings after His image exist eternally with them in...

Open Theism and Car Accidents

by Jeremy Bouma | Nov 13, 2007 | Personal | 5 Comments

It's an interesting thing what a near-death experience can do to your theology! Up until Saturday evening I was on my way to being a full-on Open Theist and rejecting the hyper-sovereignty and hyper-transcendence of Calvinism. But, after experiencing what I did in my...

Open Theism and “Most Moved Mover”: Hyper-Relationality

by Jeremy Bouma | Nov 13, 2007 | Emerging Church, Theology | 0 Comments

Interacting with "Most Moved Mover" 1: Introduction 2: Hyper-Relationality 3: Sovereignty 4: Changeability 5: Temporality 6: Conclusion HYPER-RELATIONALITY One of the foundational principles of Open Theism is the notion that God is hyper-personal and hyper-relational;...