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As Augustine once explained it to his parishioners, "We are talking about God; so why are you surprised if you cannot grasp it? I mean, if you can grasp it, it isn’t God. Let us rather make a devout confession of ignorance, instead of a brash profession of knowledge." Evangelicals would do well to be reminded of such sanctified ignorance when it comes to denouncing open theism. We all would do well to take seriously the incarnational operation of language. Retrieving a sense of analogy is to confess that "in the beginning was metaphor."
Could it be that open theism, like modernity, flirts with idolizing freedom as autonomy? (...) But what concept of freedom is at work here? Clearly, the rhetoric of the current administration -- which so reveres the ideal of a free market -- is predicated on a libertarian or "negative" notion of human freedom, as is the notion of freedom assumed by open theism. (Though open theism is castigated as "liberal" by conservative critics, some of them are beholden to this same liberal notion of freedom.)