God's Foreknowledge and Man's Free Will

By Richard Rice

Book Overview

This book is a thought-provoking study of some issues concerning the historic Calvinist/Arminian debate. Does God know absolutely everything that's going to happen? Can He foresee future moral choices and actions which have not yet been made? If one's future responses and behavior are totally foreknowable, is she truly free? Dr. Richard Rice explores these and other fascinating questions which have sometimes divided Christians. The author gives new perspective on one of the most fundamental issues of the Christian faith: the relationship of God to His creation and the reality and extent of human freedom. Carefully scrutinizing the Scriptures on this subject, the author challenges the reader to examine for himself this critical issue of theology. With strong theological background and sound biblical scholarship, Dr. Rice presents his viewpoint in a convincing and readable style.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592446760
• ISBN13: 9781592446766
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Honest look at implications, of omniscience and immutability

This book honestly looks at the meaning, implications and ramifications of the traditional view of God's omniscience and immutability. The philosophical and practical difficulties that arise out of the traditional view are demonstrated. Rice then offers a new view: The open view. I found his arguments to be persuasive, yet not completely compelling. The open view, while allowing for God's soverignty is also able to accomodate man's freedom. He also examins the ramifications of the open view for creation, providence, predestination, prophecy, the problem of evil and others. This book, I think really finds a compromise in the Calvinian/Arminian debate. It is also written in a nontechnical style which any person with a mere superficial understanding of the issue can appreciate.