The Sovereignty of God Debate [Paperback]

A collection of lectures from a variety of theological standpoints, offering a wide-ranging discussion of the nature of God's sovereignty over creation.

How is God sovereign with respect to creation? Does creation affect God? Does God suffer or change because of creation? If so, how is this related to Christology? Why have these questions been so controversial in evangelical theology, even costing some people their jobs? This book is a collection of lectures given to the Forum for Evangelical Theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Six theologians answer the questions above from a variety of perspectives. They draw on resources including the church fathers, Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, Jurgen Moltmann, process theology, and open theism. In the process of answering the question, does God suffer? each theologian also illustrates how responding to this subject requires an examination of other crucial evangelical issues, such as how we read Scripture and what it means to proclaim that God is love. Although the writers answer these questions in a variety of ways, the hope is that engaging in this conversation together can help evangelicals and all Christians to speak more faithfully of our sovereign God.GB...Paul Gavrilyuk, desires 'a companion volume that would put [diverse contemporary] approaches [to divine passibility] in conversation with patristic theology' (p.133), which is a neat description of precisely the volume by Long and Kalantzis.Preface

Part One: Gods Sovereignty and Evangelical Theology
1. The Importance of the Conversation Concerning the Doctrine of Divine (Im)passibility: An Introduction to
Gods Sovereignty and Evangelical Theology
Jimmy Cooper
2. The Sovereignty of God and Divine Transcendence: Two Views from the Early Church
George Kalantzis
3. Aquinas and Gods Sovereignty
D. Stephen Long
4. John Calvin on Sovereignty
Vincent Bacote
5. Divine Sovereignty in the Process Theological TrlS¹