Edited by Clark Pinnock
IVP (USA), The Paternoster Press. 202 pages
UK ISBN 0 85364 635 X
US ISBN 0 8308 1852 9
This symposium is presented as a 'Biblical challenge to the traditional understanding of God'. In the preface, it is likened to 'a five-course dinner prepared by five chefs'. In fact what we have is the same dish served up on five different plates - the same theme viewed from several perspectives.
By the traditional view of God, the authors mean that doctrine which sees God as eternal (in the sense that he is not subject to temporal limits or to time sequence), unchanging in his being and ways, omniscient (all-knowing), absolutely sovereign and predetermining the course of history - so that he can say: 'I am God ... declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying: 'My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure'.' (Isaiah 46.9-10). Those words should be kept in mind as we consider this book.
