A Classical Response to Relational Theism ( Kindle version). My doctoral dissertation was published a few weeks ago, by Pickwick (the monograph series imprint of Wipf&Stock). The writing of this book was not an academic exercise, but a personal quest to offer an account of the classical doctrine of God that robustly counters an open/relational model of God. I see the open/relational model of God as the by-product of modern theology shifting away from the Great Tradition of the Christian faith. That might sound overly direct, arrogant, or dogmatic. So be it. Ivory tower discourse isn't my forte. There is a clarion call to retrieve the classic doctrine of God because the God being promoted in various strands of Evangelicalism is too small, unlike the glorious God revealed in the pages Scripture. With the problems and godless ideologies that we contend with in our current milieu, the God we need is the big God of the Bible, who declares himself as the One, True, and Transcend...