The Open Future Argument: The Logic and Religion Webinar, March 21 (Thursday)

[Assis]

Dear Colleague,

You are invited to participate in the next session of the Logic and Religion Webinar Series which will be held on March 21 (THIS THURSDAY), 2024, at 4 pm CET with the topic:

 

The Open Future Argument

Speaker: Alan Rhoda (Christian Theological Seminary, USA)

Chair: Assis Mariano (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA)

 

Time zones: 11:00 am in New York; 12:00 pm in Brazil; 4:00 pm in Paris; 5:00 pm in Jerusalem; and 8:30 pm in New Delhi.

  

Register to get a zoom link:
https://www.logicandreligion.com/webinars

 
Abstract: I am going to present and defend my recently published “open future argument” (Open Theism, Cambridge Elements, 2024). The upshot of the argument is that if there is future contingency in creation, then thoroughgoing open futurism is true, and thus there is nothing in reality that picks out a unique actual future. If the argument is sound, then major consequences for theology and metaphysics follow (e.g., there is no temporally linear block universe; there is no “thin red line” or complete, true story of the future; and, if God exists, then the future is open-ended from God’s perspective.

 

 

With best wishes,

 

 

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Francisco de Assis Mariano,
The University of Missouri-Columbia (USA)
LARA Secretary
la...@logicandreligion.com