ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the nature of openness. It discusses a typical openness position which rests on indeterminacy. The chapter suggests that compatibilism properly understood entails a degree of openness, not merely purely epistemic but essential as well. This should satisfy all who desire their theology to be 'open.' In any case, a libertarian that appeals to subatomic indeterminacy is faced with the question of whether events at the micro level transfer their indeterminacy to events at the macro level. Believers who are advocates of libertarian freedom are prepared to go to extraordinary philosophical and theological lengths to preserve and enhance its prospects. The chapter focuses on the area of human deliberation. God's purpose with respect to a human person freely bringing about an action comes to pass in ways that 'respect' the integrity of human nature and its action performed through the exercise of its own powers.
