What Does God Know and When Does He Know It?
The Current Controversy over Divine Foreknowledge

This book is more of a critique of Open Theism than anything. Not really what I was expecting. It was supposedly written from a neutral standpoint, but from page 2, it was clearly not neutral at all. Erickson is coming from a pretty entrenched Calvinist viewpoint. He said the book was for Arminians......more

This book was a pleasant surprise. Millard Erickson made a genuine and serious attempt to accurately represent the views he was critiquing. He wrote the book in a calm and reasoned manner, so even when I disagreed with him, I didn't feel my emotions were being provoked. This is the first time I read......more

This is a very good restatement of classical theology, and an incisive and peaceful critique of open theism.......more

Erickson does a decent job dismantling the open theist view of foreknowledge, but he doesn’t seriously develop the classical view of foreknowledge. Instead he almost takes that view of granted. As someone who agrees with Erickson in affirming the classical view, this was a disappointing omission, an......more

This is an excellent book! As I shared in other places, start with chapter 10 and then read the rest of the book. I know that this is backwards. However, you will sense right away, that the author is adequately, and fairly presenting both sides of the debate. Both traditional and open theism are fai......more