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Tom
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Posted 5/7/2010 6:03 PM (GMT -6)

You gotta read it for yourself. Very interesting. A near classical theist (immutability of the will and nature of God, qualified impassibilist, and on board with many other classical tenets) who also believes God doesn't know future contingencies. Straight up open theist.

Robert Creel (retired Ithica U): Divine Impassibility (Wipf & Stock, 1986).

Tom

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Alan Rhoda
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Posted 5/10/2010 2:33 PM (GMT -6)

I'll second what Tom says.

Creel makes a helpful distinction between four types of passibility that God might have: passibility in nature, in feeling, in will, and in knowledge. He winds up endorsing divine passibility in the last sense, while rejecting it in the others. That much (i.e., passibility in knowledge), at least, is entailed by open theism.

I can imagine some open theists taking issue with Creel's rejection of divine passibility in feeling, but they would do well to consider Creel's arguments on that point.

Tom
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Posted 5/12/2010 8:08 PM (GMT -6)

Hey Alan, what do you think about Creel's notion of the "plenum"? It found it attractive in some ways but am not sure it's a necessary move. I liked a LOT about his views but will need a few more reviews of it to let things settle.

Tom

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