Open theism is a theological movement that has developed within evangelical and post-evangelical Protestant Christianity as a response to certain ideas that are related to the synthesis of Greek philosophy and Christian theology. Several of these ideas within classical theism (a designation which is not to be taken as inclusive of all of orthodox theism) state that God is immutable, impassible, and timeless.

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  • Open theism is a theological movement that has developed within evangelical and post-evangelical Protestant Christianity as a response to certain ideas that are related to the synthesis of Greek philosophy and Christian theology. Several of these ideas within classical theism (a designation which is not to be taken as inclusive of all of orthodox theism) state that God is immutable, impassible, and timeless. For several versions of classical theism, God fully determines the future; thus, humanity does not have libertarian free will, or, if free, that its freedom must necessarily be compatible with God's determining actions. Open theists argue that these attributes do not belong to the God of the Bible and are at odds with personhood. Practically, open theism makes the case for a personal God who is open to influence through the prayers, decisions, and actions of people. Although many specific outcomes of the future are unknowable, God's foreknowledge of the future includes that which is determined as time progresses often in light of free decisions that have been made and what has been sociologically determined. So God knows everything that has been determined as well as what has not yet been determined but remains open. As such, he is able to anticipate the future, yet remains fluid to respond and react to prayer and decisions made either contrary or advantageous to His plan or presuppositions. Gregory A. Boyd claims that "open theism" is an inappropriate term since the position posits more about the nature of time and reality than it does about God itself. This is to say that open theists do not believe that God doesn't know the future, but rather that the future doesn't exist to be known by anyone. For the open theist the future simply hasn't happened yet, not for anyone, and thus is unknowable in the common sense. Thus, to say that God doesn't know the future is akin to saying that he doesn't know about square circles. In this understanding, it could be technically wiser to refer to the view as "Open Futurism".
  • Teísmo Aberto é a teologia que nega a onipresença, a onipotência e a onisciência de Deus. Seus defensores apresentam outra definição onde afirmam pretender uma reavaliação do conceito da onisciência de Deus, na qual se afirma que Deus não conhece o futuro completamente, e pode mudar de idéia conforme as circunstâncias. Afirmam também, alguns defensores, que o termo “Todo-poderoso” não pode ser extraído do contexto bíblico pois, segundo eles, a tradução original da palavra do qual é traduzida tal expressão havia se perdido ao longo dos séculos.
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  • Open theism is a theological movement that has developed within evangelical and post-evangelical Protestant Christianity as a response to certain ideas that are related to the synthesis of Greek philosophy and Christian theology. Several of these ideas within classical theism (a designation which is not to be taken as inclusive of all of orthodox theism) state that God is immutable, impassible, and timeless.
  • Teísmo Aberto é a teologia que nega a onipresença, a onipotência e a onisciência de Deus. Seus defensores apresentam outra definição onde afirmam pretender uma reavaliação do conceito da onisciência de Deus, na qual se afirma que Deus não conhece o futuro completamente, e pode mudar de idéia conforme as circunstâncias.
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  • Open theism
  • Teísmo aberto
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