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A Theological Argument for Necessary Presentism

I’ve recently been reading a book critical of open theism by the late Ben Arbour. In later chapters he contends that open future open theism presupposes presentism as the ontology of time and claims, without any supporting argument other than footnotes to an essay by Tom Crisp, that presentism is metaphysically contingent. That is, Arbour… Read More »

Philosophical Essays against Open Theism – ch. 3: Arbour

This is part three of eleven in a series responding to the essays in Ben Arbour’s edited volume, Philosophical Essays against Open Theism (Routledge, 2019). In this post I tackle chapter 3 by Ben Arbour, “A Few Worries About the Systematic Metaphysics of Open Future Open Theism.” Unlike the previous chapter by Visser, this is… Read More »