Some of the stuff which significantly 'steer' our lives come about extraordinarily.

I decided to take Economics in A-Levels because I simply didn't like the Science subjects (you can thank the SPM curriculum for that) and I didn't know a thing about econs at the time, so there really wasn't anything to dislike.

I got closer to my wife because she happened to be in the Compliance department of an organisation my consulting team was assigned to.

My postmodern 'turn' happened because I picked up Len Sweet's Soul Tsunami durinng the 1-2 weeks before my son's birth (my mum had bought it almost half a decade ago). I was bored with my reading list at the time, you see.

I because a full-blown N.T. Wright fan because Glenn Miller, whose theological prowess I deeply respect, described him (in 2000) as "absolutely the best evangelical scholar alive today".

And my open theism - a view of God which has gotten me into loads of trouble cum fun, though the theological learning obtained along the way has been worth EVERY knock! - kicked off because of a two cheap books. One is Grace of God, Will of Man (ed. Clark Pinnock) which I got for less than 10 bucks in a Glad Sounds sale.

The other is the one pictured above, which I found virtually 'abandoned' in the far-back shelves of the Salvation bookstore near my parent's place (and everyone knows Salvation is more a record store than a bookstore, right? *grin*)

This book is the work of five authors inntroducing Open Theism, the defining (though not necessarily central) characteristic of which is the proposition that God's omniscience does not include everything that will be actualised in the future.

In a word, God doesn't know all the future. Not because He's any less 'knowing' than what the tradition has always claimed, but because the future doesn't yet exist to be known (get it? no? that's fine - not many people do...*smile*)

A review of the book (written some time back) can be found here.

What I'm interested to explore (maybe next time?) is the relevance (if any) of the doctrine of foreknowledge, how it relates to the kingdom of God, to the postmodern emergent conversation, etc.

Seriously, does it matter what we believe about what and/or how much God foreknows? What do you think?