In Depth:  David Field

What better way to start the New Year than with a renewed confidence in the truthfulness, authority and sufficiency of the Bible, God's Word?

It is an anvil which has worn out many hammers, a book which has transformed the lives of countless millions and shaped cultures, and has been the one firm place to stand for the people of God seeking to understand themselves, to know their Maker and Redeemer, and to move the world.

David Field reflects on the astonishingly popular series of novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.

The energetic and expectant people of God are filled with hope.

Better than sex, better than skiing, systematic theology is probably the most exciting activity known to man.

To the enthusiastic disciple of King Jesus, that is.

The God of classical orthodoxy - that is to say, the God of Augustine, Aquinas, the Reformers, the Puritans and so on - is a dynamic, relational, infinitely alive God.

However, in recent years a group of ex-evangelical writers who call themselves 'Open Theists' and 'radicalised Arminians' have claimed that the traditional Christian understanding of God makes him static, remote, detached and unfeeling. The debate between orthodox Christians and open theists proceeds apace and is producing a vast literature. The questions that follow are intended to highlight in summary form some of the leading inconsistencies and dangers of open theism.