Analyze Feinberg's assessment of openness theology.
According to Feinberg, openness theology is a corrective
mediating to classical and process theism (Feinberg 2019, 69). Openness
theology may have agreements with both classical and process theism;
there are many differences in which Feinberg fleshes out. Openness
theology may hold to the standard that God has all the traditional
attributes, but in hopes not to create a finite and impotent God, chooses
not to exercise them to leave room for human free will (Feinberg 2019,
69). Therefore, the denial of God's divine foreknowledge provides a
significant difference to those who hold to the classic model (Ware 2001,
Chapter 4). The classic model, which has been the dominant doctrine in
past church history, states that God is overall immutable and
unchangeable, knowing that future, including all of the actions of His
created beings (Feinberg 2019, 65). This would then hold that openness
theology denies the standard of God's omniscience and omnipotence.
Feinberg lays the foundational assessment that when it comes to
open theology, the two basic concepts center around the idea of God's
love and are established initially by Richard Rice's book,The Openness of
God. These two convictions state, "love is the most important quality we
attribute to God, and love is more than care and commitment; it involves
being sensitive and responsive as well (Feinberg 2019, 69)." Therefore,
through the Old and New Testament, this would give the reader the
understanding that love is the prominent attribute of God, who is,
therefore, able to be moved to do the thing that He has not planned to do
through prayer and petitions (Feinberg 2019, 72).
Discuss at least three theological reasons for agreement or
disagreement with Feinberg. These reasons should not be given
as mere personal preferences but should instead reflect solid
biblical/theological data that support the position.
Feinberg comments that the open view is a distinct alternative to
both process and classical models and that openness theology establishes
