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Surprising God — 52 episodes

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1

Why We Cannot Prove (or Disprove) Free Will

2

Can Molinism Defend Against Claims of Fatalism?

3

What Might True Supernatural Knowledge Look Like?

4

Who Told You that You were Autonomous?

5

A Strange Consequence of Compatibilism

6

My Favorite William Lane Craig Quote Against Determinism

7

What is the Story of Joseph Really About?

8

Is Open Theism the Only View that Makes Sense of Sabbath?

9

Does Love Trust All Things, or Believe All Things?

10

Does God Do Everything for Us? A Look at 1 Corinthians 15:10

11

What Does Grammar Say About God?

12

What is Theological Memoir?

13

Law and Loathing: What Calvin Gets Right and Wrong About the First Function of the Law

14

What Does Jesus Mean by "Apart from me you can do nothing"?

15

RC Sproul and His Rotten Hermeneutic and Atonement Theology

16

When is the Will Free? Peter van Inwagen Enters the Chat

17

Does Open Theism Collapse Under the Weight of Psalm 139?

18

What is the Future of Process Theism?

19

God Works? Only Open Theism Says Yes.

20

Did Open Theism Break Norman Geisler's Heart?

21

Can God Actually Rest? Can God Sabbath?

22

If Love is Risky, How Can the Triune God Be Love?

23

Only Open Theism Makes Sense of Miracles

24

What Would Moses Think of Calvin's View of the Law?

25

Can God Give a New Will Without Creating a New Person?

26

What Does the Worst Movie Line Ever Say About Calvinism?

27

Open Theism in the Church Fathers?

28

A Courage Worse than Cowardice?

29

Does Plausibility and Beauty Matter in Our Doctrine of God?

30

Greg Boyd: Evolving as an Open Theist

31

If Love Requires Free Choice, How Could a Baby Get Into Heaven?

32

Alan Rhoda on Open Theism

33

Is Power Fundamentally Social?

34

Can BOTH God AND God's People Exert Power in Creation? Digging in to Thomas Oord's New Book

35

Does Open Theism "Bring God Down to the Human Level"?

36

The Improvisational God. What Improv Might Teach Us About God's Creation. The Samuel Tanner Interview.

37

Anthropomorphism Problems: Do We Learn Anything About God From Jesus?

38

Deep Questions with Joshua L Rasmussen

39

The Direction of Piety

40

A Response to John Piper's Irresistible Grace Thought Experiment

41

What Did C.S. Lewis Think About Open Theism?

42

On Open Theism and Experiencing God, with Jesse Birkey

43

Is Evil and Suffering Inherently Pointless for Open Theists?

44

Reflections on Providence in a Pagan Milieu

45

Does God Trust Us? The Curtis Holtzen Conversation

46

Paul Anleitner Talks About Leaving Open Theism and His New Book: Dis-ordered

47

Thomas Oord on God's Uncontrolling Love, Process Theism, and the Limitations of Open Theism

48

Paul Eddy on Confronting John Piper and Rescuing Greg Boyd from Calvinism

49

How Does Our View of God Shape Our Healing? A Discussion with Kurt Willems

50

What's the Oldest Book on Open Theism? How about One from the 1800s!

51

How Open Theism Relates to Calvinism and Arminianism

52

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