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Surprising God — 58 episodes

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1

The Power or the Right? How Augustine was Led Astray

2

William Lane Craig on So Called Open Theists

3

The Forgotten Trinity? Or the Irrelevant Trinity?

4

Delighting in the Trinity

5

Spiration Sickness: Initial Thoughts on Trinity Research

6

You Are Your Own. Or Are You?

7

Why We Cannot Prove (or Disprove) Free Will

8

Can Molinism Defend Against Claims of Fatalism?

9

What Might True Supernatural Knowledge Look Like?

10

Who Told You that You were Autonomous?

11

A Strange Consequence of Compatibilism

12

My Favorite William Lane Craig Quote Against Determinism

13

What is the Story of Joseph Really About?

14

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

15

Does Love Trust All Things, or Believe All Things?

16

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

17

What Does Grammar Say About God?

18

What is Theological Memoir?

19

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

20

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

21

RC Sproul and His Rotten Hermeneutic and Atonement Theology

22

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

23

Does Open Theism Collapse Under the Weight of Psalm 139?

24

What is the Future of Process Theism?

25

God Works? Only Open Theism Says Yes.

26

Did Open Theism Break Norman Geisler's Heart?

27

Can God Actually Rest? Can God Sabbath?

28

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

29

Only Open Theism Makes Sense of Miracles

30

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

31

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

32

What Does the Worst Movie Line Ever Say About Calvinism?

33

Open Theism in the Church Fathers?

34

A Courage Worse than Cowardice?

35

Does Plausibility and Beauty Matter in Our Doctrine of God?

36

Greg Boyd: Evolving as an Open Theist

37

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

38

Alan Rhoda on Open Theism

39

Is Power Fundamentally Social?

40

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

41

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

42

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

43

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

44

Deep Questions with Joshua L Rasmussen

45

The Direction of Piety

46

A Response to John Piper's Irresistible Grace Thought Experiment

47

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

48

On Open Theism and Experiencing God, with Jesse Birkey

49

Is Evil and Suffering Inherently Pointless for Open Theists?

50

Reflections on Providence in a Pagan Milieu

51

Does God Trust Us? The Curtis Holtzen Conversation

52

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

53

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

54

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

55

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

56

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

57

How Open Theism Relates to Calvinism and Arminianism

58

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