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Open theism, also known as openness theology and free will theism,〔http://opentheism.info/open-theism/ (Accessed August 1, 2014)〕 is a theological movement that has developed within evangelical and post-evangelical Protestant Christianity as a response to certain ideas related to the synthesis of Greek philosophy and Christian theology. It is typically advanced as a biblically motivated and philosophically consistent theology of human and divine freedom (in the libertarian sense), with an emphasis on what this means for the content of God's foreknowledge and exercise of God's power.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Paths to Open and Relational Theologies )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Brief Outline and Defense of the Open View )〕 It has been said that open theism triggered the "most significant controversy about the doctrine of God in evangelical thought" in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.〔Roger E. Olson, ''The Westminster Handbook to Evangelical Theology'' (Westminster John Knox Press, 2004), 190.〕 ==Exposition of open theism== In short, open theism says that since God and humans are free, God's knowledge is dynamic and God's providence flexible. While several versions of traditional theism would picture God's knowledge of the future as a singular, fixed trajectory, open theism would see it as a plurality of branching possibilities, with some possibilities becoming settled as time moves forward. Thus, the future as well as God's knowledge of it is ''open'' (hence "open" theism). Other versions of classical theism hold that God fully determines the future, entailing that there is no free choice (the ''future'' is closed). Yet other versions of classical theism hold that even though there is freedom of choice, God's omniscience necessitates God foreknowing what free choices are made (God's ''foreknowledge'' is closed). Open theists hold that these versions of classical theism are out of sync with: # the biblical concept of God # the biblical understanding of divine and creaturely freedom and/or result in incoherence. Open Theists tend to emphasize that God's most fundamental character trait is love, and that this trait is unchangeable. They also (in contrast to traditional theism) tend to hold that the biblical portrait is of a God deeply moved by creation, experiencing a variety of feelings in response to it.〔The Openness of God, ch. 1〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Open theism」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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