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Robert Furney
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Date Joined Jan 2002
Total Posts : 24
| Posted 4/2/2002 12:15 PM (GMT -6) |   | I have been reading Genesis: The Story We Haven't Heard and strongly recommend it to all interested in Open Theism. It is not an apologetic on open theism, but rather Paul Borgman uses it while expositing various aspects of Genesis. Apparently, he came to open theism independent of other popular theologians and mentions the fact that while putting the finishing touches on the book he came across John Sander's The God Who Risks.
Borgman emphasizes God's relations with Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph and shows how God mends them to bring about his ultimate desire of blessing all nations. Abraham's will is brought about by a long relationship with God over many trials, tests, and years to what God's will is. There is no manipulation here.
You will find the author's grasp of Genesis quite compelling and entertaining. He has studied it for over 25 years before writing this book. And he believes, as I do, that narration as a genre reveals aspects of God that poetry, wisdom, and didactic portions of Scripture cannot.
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Seymour
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Date Joined Jan 2002
Total Posts : 105
| Posted 4/3/2002 11:45 AM (GMT -6) | | I whole heartedly second the recommendation for several reasons:
1. One of my favorite prof’s wrote a blurb on the back cover of it.
2. My all time favorite prof is quoted twice in it. They went to school together and are old friends.
3. I met Paul Borgman when he was a guest lecturer at my school. He introduced me to Alter’s “The David Story” and we talked about open theism and king Saul and he said that God made a mistake and made the wrong person king when he anointed Saul. That caught me off guard that he would say it so plainly, and that’s what got us started about open theism. From what I gather he came to it mainly through reading and working with Terence Fretheim and all of his work on Genesis.
4. This book is exceptionally well written because Borgman is not a theologian or a Bible scholar primarily. Rather he teaches Literature and is a skilled writer. For several years he has been teaching courses on the Bible as literature and that is how he came to write this book. But it is very very well written, something sort of rare in theological texts.
5. Lastly I should recommend it because he’s a nice guy who sold me the book at a reduced rate. Thwart IVP! Suckers.
EMILY: “Oh, earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?--every, every minute?”
STAGE MANAGER: “No. The saints and poets, maybe--they do some.”
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