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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS ON OPEN THEISM

Compiled by Dennis M. Swanson

Seminary Librarian

Earlier pages of this issue of The Master’s Seminary Journal contain

articles on Open Theism, a relative new field also known as openness theology and

the openness of God. The following bibliography represents the collected research

of the articles’ authors and some additional sources that were discovered, but not

cited in the articles. Its five sections are (1) Reference W orks, (2) Systematic

Theologies, (3) Monographs and M ulti-Author W orks, (4) Journal Articles, (5)

Unpublished Materials. This listing is not exhaustive, but will serve as a foundation

for readers desiring to pursue the study further.

Reference W orks (including lexical entries)

Butterworth, Mike. “.(1.” In New International Dictionary of Old Testament

Theology & Exegesis, 5 vols. Ed. by W illem A. VanGemeren, 3:81-83. Grand

Rapids: Zondervan, 1997.

Simeon-Yofre, H., and H.-J. Fabry. “.(1.” In Theological Dictionary of the Old

Testament. Ed. by G. Johannes Botterweck, Helmer Ringgren, and Heinz-Josef

Fabry, trans. by David E. Green, 9:340-55. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.

Stoebe, H. J. “.(1.” In Theological Lexicon of the Old Testament, 3 vols. Ed. by

Ernst Jenni and Claus Westermann, trans. by Mark E. Biddle, 2:734-39.

Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1997.

Systematic Theologies (Note: the section below is simply a representative sampling

of systematic theologies since all such works deal with theology proper).

Berkouwer, G. C. The Providence of God. Studies in Dogmatics. Reprint of 1952 ed.

Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983.

Ames, William. The Marrow of Theology. Trans. by John Dykstra Eusden.

Durham, N. C.: Labyrinth, 1983.

Boyce, James P. Abstract of Systematic Theology. Nashville: Southern Baptist

Theological Seminary, 1887.

Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion. Ed. by John T. McNeill.

Philadelphia: Westminster, 1960.

Chafer, Lewis S. Systematic Theology. Dallas: Dallas Theological Seminary, 1947.

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Dabney, R. L. Systematic Theology. St. Louis: Presbyterian Publishing Company

of St. Louis, 1878. Reprint; Carlisle, Pa.: Banner of Truth, 1985.

Enns, Paul. The Moody Handbook of Theology. Chicago: Moody, 1989.

Erickson, Millard J. Christian Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1985. 2nd ed.,

1998.

Gill, John. A Complete Body of Doctrinal and Practical Divinity. London: Tegg,

1839. Reprint; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1978.

Grudem, Wayne. Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine. Grand

Rapids: Zondervan, 1994.

Hodge, Charles. Systematic Theology. New York: Scribner, 1871. Reprint; Grand

Rapids: Eerdmans, 1946).

Reymond, Robert L. A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith . Nashville:

Thomas Nelson, 1998.

Turretin, Francis. Institutes of Elenctic Theology. Trans. by George Musgrave

Giger. Ed. by James T. Dennison. 3 vols. Phillipsburg, N.J.: Presbyterian and

Reformed, 1992.

Monographs and M ulti-Author Works

Allis, Osw ald T. The Unity of Isaiah: A Study in Prophecy. Nutley, N. J.:

Presbyterian and Reformed, 1974.

Andersen, Francis I., and David N . Freedman. Amos . Anchor Bible. New York:

Doubleday, 1989.

Black, David Alan. “Introduction.” In Linguistics and New Testament Interpreta-

tion: Essays on Discourse Analysis . Ed. by David Alan Black Nashville:

Broadman and Holman, 1992, 10-13.

Block, Daniel I. Judges, Ruth. The New American Commentary, vol. 6. Nashville:

Broadman and Holman, 1999.

Bounds, E. M. The Reality of Prayer. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1980.

Boyd, Gregory A. God of the Possible: A Biblical Introduction to the Open View of

God . Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000.

________. Oneness Pentecostals and the Trinity. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1992.

________. God at War. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1997.

Bray, Gerald. The Doctrine of God: Contours of Christian Theology. Downers

Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1998.

Bullock, C. Hassell. An Introduction to the Old Testament Prophetic Books.

Chicago: Moody, 1986.

Carson, D . A., The Gagging of God. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996.

________. The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God. Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway,

2000.

Charnock, Stephen. The Existence and Attributes of God. Reprint of 1797 ed.;

Minneapolis: Klock and Klock, 1977.

Clarke, W. Norris. God, Knowable and Unknowable . New York: Fordham

University, 1973.

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Cobb, John B., Jr., and Clark H. Pinnock, eds. Searching for an Adequate God: A

Dialogue Between Process and Free Will Theists. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,

2000.

Craig, William Lane. Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom: The Coherence

of Theism: Omniscience. Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History, vol. 19. Leiden:

E. J. Brill, 1991.

________. The Only Wise God: The Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge and

Human Freedom . Grand Rapids: Baker, 1987.

Cranfield, C. E. B. A Critical and Exegetical Comm entary on The Epistle to the

Romans . 2 vols. International Critical Commentary series. Edinburgh: T. & T.

Clark, 1979.

Erickson, M illard J. God the Father Almighty . Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998.

________. God in Three Persons: A Contemporary Interpretation of the Trinity.

Grand Rapids: Baker, 1995.

Feinberg, John S. No One Like Him: The Doctrine of God. Wheaton, Ill.:

Crossway, 2001.

Fokkelman, Jan P. “The Cyrus Oracle (Isaiah 44, 24–45, 7) from the Perspective of

Syntax, Versification and Structure.” In Studies in the Book of Isaiah. Leuven:

Leuven University, 1997.

Geisler, Norman L. Creating God in the Image of Man? Minneapolis: Bethany

House, 1997.

Gifford, E. H. “Romans.” In The Holy Bible with an Explanatory and Critical

Commentary, New Testament. Ed. by F. C. Cook. London: John Murray, 1900.

3:1-238.

Hasker, William. “A Philosophical Perspective.” In The Openness of God: A

Biblical Challenge to the Traditional Understanding of God. Clark Pinnock,

Richard Rice, John Sanders, William Hasker, and David Basinger. Downers

Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1994. 126-54.

Held, Moshe. “The YQTL (QTL-YQTL) Sequence of Identical Verbs in Biblical

Hebrew and in Ugaritic.” In Studies and Essays in Honor of Abraham A.

Neuman . Meir Ben-Horin et. al., eds. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1962.

Henry, Carl F . H. God, Revelation and Authority Volume 6. Waco, Tex.: Word,

1983.

Hobbs, T. R. 2 Kings. Word Biblical Commentary, vol. 13. Waco, Tex.: Word,

1985.

Hoehner, Harold W. “Israel in Romans 9–11.” In Israel: The Land and the People.

H. Wayne House, ed. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1998. 145-67.

Jeremas, Joachim. Die Reue Gottes: Aspekte alttestamentlicher Gottesvorstellung.

Biblische Studien 65. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1975.

Johnson, Gary L. W ., and R . Fowler White, eds. Whatever Happened to the

Reformation. Phillipsburg, N.J.: P&R, 2001.

Labuschagne, C. J. The Incom parability of Yahweh in the Old Testament. Pretoria

Oriental Series, Volume 5. A. Van Selms, ed. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1966.

Lockyer, Herbert. All the Prayers of the Bible . Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1959.


Louw, J. P. “Reading a Text As Discourse,” Linguistics and New Testament

Interpretation: Essays on Discourse Analysis . Nashville: Broadman and

Holman, 1992. 17-30.

MacArthur, John. The Love of God. Dallas: Word, 1996.

Moo, Douglas J. The Epistle to the Romans. New International Commentary on the

New Testament. Gordon D. Fee, ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996.

Morris, Leon. The Epistle to the Romans. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988.

Motyer, J. Alec. The Prophecy of Isaiah: An Introduction & Commentary . Dow ners


Oswalt, John N. The Book of Isaiah: Chapters 1–39. New International Commentary

on the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986.

Patterson, Richard D., and Hermann J. Austel. “1, 2 Kings.” In The Expositor’s

Bible Commentary. Frank E. Gaebelein, ed. 4:3-300. Grand Rapids: Zondervan,

1988.

Pinnock, Clark H. “Systematic Theology.” In The Openness of God: A Biblical

Challenge to the Traditional Understanding of God . Clark Pinnock, Richard

Rice, John Sanders, William Hasker, and David Basinger. 101-25. Downers


________. “Between Classical and Process Theism.” In Process Theology. Ronald

Nash, ed. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1987.

Piper, John. The Justification of God: An Exegetical and Theological Study of

Romans 9:1–23. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000.

Pratt, Richard L., Jr. 1 and 2 Chronicles. Ross-shire, G reat Britain: Christian

Focus, 1998.

Rice, Richard. “Biblical Support for a New Perspective.” In The Openness of God.

Clark Pinnock, Richard Rice, John Sanders, W illiam Hasker, and David

Basinger. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1994. 11-58.

________. “Divine Foreknowledge and Free-Will Theism,” in The Grace of God,

the Will of Man: A Case for Arminianism. Clark Pinnock, ed. Grand Rapids:

Zondervan, 1989.

Sanders, John. The God Who Risks: A Theology of Providence. Downers Grove, Ill.:

InterVarsity, 1998.

________. “Historical Considerations.” In The Openness of G od: A Biblical

Challenge to the Traditional Understanding of God . Clark Pinnock, Richard

Rice, John Sanders, W illiam Hasker, and David Basinger. Downers Grove, Ill.:

InterVarsity, 1994. 59-100.

Saucy, Robert L. The Case for Progressive Dispensationalism. Grand Rapids:

Zondervan, 1993.

Schreiner, Thomas R., and Bruce A . Ware, eds. Still Sovereign: Contemporary

Perspectives on Election, Foreknowledge and Grace. Grand Rapids: Baker,

2000.

Strimple, Robert B. “What Does God Know?” In The Coming Evangelical Crisis .

Ed. by John H. Armstrong. Chicago: Moody, 1996. 139-53.

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Terry, Milton S. Biblical Hermeneutics: A Treatise on the Interpretation of the Old

and New Testaments. 2d ed. Reprint; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, n.d.

Tozer, A. W . The Knowledge of the Holy. Lincoln, Neb.: Back to the Bible, 1971.

Ware, Bruce A. God’s Lesser Glory: The Diminished God of Open Theism .

Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway, 2000.

Watson, Wilfred G .E. Classical Hebrew Poetry. Journal for the Study of the Old

Testament Supplement Series 26. David J. A. Clines et. al., eds. Reprint; Shef-

field: Sheffield Academic, 1995.

Whitcomb, John C., Jr. Solom on to the Exile: Studies in Kings and Chronicles.

Grand Rapids: Baker, 1971.

White, James R. The Potter’s Freedom: A Defense of the Reformation and a

Rebuttal of Norman Geisler’s Chosen But Free. Amityville, N. Y.: Calvary

Press, 2000.

Journal Articles

Basinger, David, and Randall Basinger. “In the Image of Man Create They God: A

Challenge.” Scottish Journal of Theology 34/2 (1981):97-107.

Basinger, David. “Can an Evangelical Christian Justifiably Deny God’s Exhaustive

Knowledge of the Future?” Christian Scholar’s Review 25/2 (1995):133-45.

Beckwith, Francis J. “Limited Omniscience and the Test for a Prophet: A Brief

Philosophical Analysis.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 36/1

(March 1993):65-76.

________. “God Knows?” Christian Research Journal 22/4 (2000):54-56.

Caneday, A. B. “Putting God At Risk: A Critique of John Sanders’ View of

Providence.” Trinity Journal 20/2 (Fall 1999):131-63.

________. “A Response to Gregory A. Boyd’s God of the Possible.” Journal of

Biblical Apologetics 1 (Fall 2000):66-87.

Carson, D. A. “God, the Bible and Spiritual Warfare: A Review Article.” Journal

of the Evangelical Theological Society 42 (1999):251-69.

Chisholm, Robert B., Jr. “Does God ‘Change His Mind’?” Bibliotheca Sacra

152/608 (October 1995):387-99.

Cole, Graham A. “The Living God: Anthropomorphic or Anthropopathic?” The

Reformed Theological Review 59/1 (April 2000):23-39.

Crawford, Leslie James. “Ephesians 1:3-4 and the Nature of Election.” The

Master’s Seminary Journal 11/1 (Spring 2000):75-91.

Felix, Paul W., Sr. “The Hermeneutics of Evangelical Feminism.” The Master’s

Seminary Journal 5/2 (Fall 1994):159-84.

Freddoso, Alfred J. “The ‘Openness of God’: A Reply to William Hasker.”

Christian Scholar’s Review 28/1 (Fall 1998):140-53.

Fretheim, Terence E. “The Repentance of God: A Key to Evaluating Old Testament

God-Talk.” Horizons in Biblical Theology 10/1 (June 1988):47-70.


Hall, Chistopher A., and John Sanders, “Does God Know Your Next Move?” Part

One. Christianity Today 45 (M ay 21, 2001):39-45. Part Two, 45 (June 11,

2001):50-56.

Hammett, John S. Review of God of the Possible, by Gregory Boyd. Faith and

Mission 18/1 (Fall 2000):136-41.

Helm, Paul. “Openness Theology and God ‘Project’ for the Future.” Modern

Reformation 8 (November-December 1999):46-50.

Houghton, Myron J. “An Evaluation of the Open View of God.” Faith Pulpit, Faith

Baptist Theological Seminary (November 2000).

Kuyper, Lester J. “The Suffering and the Repentance of God.” Scottish Journal of

Theology 22 (1969):262-68.

MacArthur, John. “Open Theism’s Attack on the Atonement.” The Master’s

Seminary Journal 12/1 (Spring 2001):3-13.

McQuilkin, J. Robertson. “The Behavioral Sciences under the Authority of

Scripture.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 20 (1977):31-43.

Merrill, Eugene H. “Isaiah 40–55 As Anti-Babylonian Polemic.” Grace Theologi-

cal Journal 8/1 (1987):3-18

________. “Literary Genres in Isaiah 40–55.” Bibliotheca Sacra 144/574

(1987):144-56

Mohler, R. Albert, Jr. “Does God Give Bad Advice?” World 15 (June 17, 2000):23.

________. “The Eclipse of God at Century’s End.” Southern Baptist Journal of

Theology 1 (Spring 1977):3

Morey, Robert A. “Does God Really Know the Future?” Journal of Biblical

Apologetics (Spring 2001):5-18

Nicole, Roger. “A Review Article: God of the Possible?” Reformation and Revival

18/1 (Winter 2001):167-94.

Parunak, H. Van Dyke. “A Semantic Survey of NHEM .” Biblica 56/4 (1975):512-32.

Picirilli, Robert E. “Foreknowledge, Freedom and the Future.” Journal of the

Evangelical Theological Society 43/2 (June 2000):259-71.

Pyne, Robert, and Stephen R. Spencer. “A Critique of Free W ill Theism, Part One.”

Bibliotheca Sacra 158 (July-September 2001):259-86

Sanders, John. Review of The God who Risks, by Bruce W are. Journal of the

Evangelical Theological Society 43 (June 2000):339-43.

Steuer, Axel. “The Freedom of God and Human Freedom.” Scottish Journal of

Theology 36/2 (1983):163-80.

Surin, Kenneth. “The Impassibility of God and the Problem of Evil.” Scottish

Journal of Theology 35/2 (1982):97-115.

Thomas, Robert L. “General Revelation and Biblical Hermeneutics.” The Master’s

Seminary Journal 9/1 (Spring 1998):4-23.

__________. “Current Hermeneutical Trends: Explanation or Obfuscation?”

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 39 (1996):241-56.

__________. “The Principle of Single Meaning.” The Master’s Seminary Journal

12/1 (Spring 2001):33-47.

Ware, Bruce A. “An Evangelical Reformulation of the Doctrine of the Immutability

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Unpublished Materials

Brueggemann, Walter. Endorsement of Gregory A. Boyd, God of the Possible, No.

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Grisanti, Michael A. “The Relationship of Israel and the Nations in Isaiah 40–45.”

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Piper, John, and Justin Taylor. “Resolution on the Foreknowledge of God: Reasons

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Rosscup, James E . Manuscript on prayer, Sun Valley, California: The Master’s

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Roy, Steve. “How M uch Does God Foreknow? An Evangelical Assessment of the

Doctrine of the Extent of the Foreknowledge of God in Light of the Teaching of

Open Theism.” Doctor of Philosophy dissertation, Trinity Evangelical Divinity

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