I had a class with him in college, the argument didn't quite go like that as I recall. It was more of a 'God makes pretty good guesses' I don't remember much about God actually reacting or 'righting' events ala Scott Backula or anything. The premise of the argument is that god doesn't know the future, but not so much that he reacts to us. I think its largely a reaction to the helplessness felt by (or presumed to be felt by) Calvinism.
the wikipedia page is decent, the big section on Boyd describes the issue as I remember him laying it out in class. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Theism
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Isn't Boyd an "Open Theology" guy...God doesn't know the future, he reacts to our decisions, etc?
I had a class with him in college, the argument didn't quite go like that as I recall. It was more of a 'God makes pretty good guesses' I don't remember much about God actually reacting or 'righting' events ala Scott Backula or anything. The premise of the argument is that god doesn't know the future, but not so much that he reacts to us. I think its largely a reaction to the helplessness felt by (or presumed to be felt by) Calvinism.
the wikipedia page is decent, the big section on Boyd describes the issue as I remember him laying it out in class.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Theism
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