{"id":48,"date":"2008-04-09T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/?p=48"},"modified":"2008-04-09T16:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T20:28:00","slug":"open-theology-and-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/open-theology-and-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Theology and Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next four days I&#8217;ll be at an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enc.edu\/history\/ot\/schedule2008.html\">&#8220;Open Theology and Science&#8221;<\/a> conference at Azusa Pacific University in California.<\/p>\n<p>While there, I&#8217;ll be reading a paper entitled &#8220;The Fourfold Openness of the Future&#8221; in which I distinguish between four different ways in which the future may be thought of as &#8220;open&#8221; &#8211; causal, ontic, alethic, and epistemic &#8211; and argue that if the future is causally open (i.e., universal determinism is false) then it has to be open in the other three respects as well. If this is right, then the options for theists reduce to two: (1) theological determinism, according to which the future is open in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">none<\/span> of those four respects, or (2) a version of open theism according to which the future is open in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">all <\/span>of those four respects.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also be participating in a Q&#038;A panel in which I&#8217;ll be <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">briefly<\/span> (2-3 minutes) responding to a recent criticism of open theism by Jonathan Kvanvig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next four days I&#8217;ll be at an &#8220;Open Theology and Science&#8221; conference at Azusa Pacific University in California. While there, I&#8217;ll be reading a paper entitled &#8220;The Fourfold Openness of the Future&#8221; in which I distinguish between four different ways in which the future may be thought of as &#8220;open&#8221; &#8211; causal, ontic, alethic,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/open-theology-and-science\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}