Full Description
How is God sovereign with respect to creation? Does creation affect God? Does God suffer or change because of creation? If so, how is this related to Christology? Why have these questions been so controversial in evangelical theology, even costing some people their jobs? This book is a collection of lectures given to the Forum for Evangelical Theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Six theologians answer the questions above from a variety of perspectives. They draw on resources including the church fathers, Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, Jurgen Moltmann, process theology, and open theism. In the process of answering the question, does God suffer? each theologian also illustrates how responding to this subject requires an examination of other crucial evangelical issues, such as how we read Scripture and what it means to proclaim that God is love. Although the writers answer these questions in a variety of ways, the hope is that engaging in this conversation together can help evangelicals and all Christians to speak more faithfully of our sovereign God.
Contents
Preface Part One: God's Sovereignty and Evangelical Theology 1. The Importance of the Conversation Concerning the Doctrine of Divine (Im)passibility: An Introduction to God's Sovereignty and Evangelical Theology / Jimmy Cooper 2. The Sovereignty of God and Divine Transcendence: Two Views from the Early Church / George Kalantzis 3. Aquinas and God's Sovereignty / D. Stephen Long 4. John Calvin on Sovereignty / Vincent Bacote 5. Divine Sovereignty in the Process Theological Tradition (with a little help from John Wesley) / Michael Lodahl 6. 'God's Power Is God's Goodness': Some Notes on the Sovereignty of God in Jurgen Moltmann's Theology / Nancy Elizabeth Bedford 7. Divine Suffering in an Openness of God Perspective / John Sanders 8. Suffering and the Sovereign Love of God: A Conclusion to God's Sovereignty and Evangelical Theology / Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap Part Two: Responses 9. John Sanders 10. Nancy Elizabeth Bedford 11. Michael Lodahl 12. Vincent Bacote 13. D. Stephen Long 14. George Kalantzis
