John E. Sanders is an American evangelical Christian theologian. He currently serves as professor of religion at Hendrix College. Sanders is best known for his promotion of open theism, but he has also written in defense of inclusivism. While Sanders is neither the first nor the definitive open theist, he has been the focus of more popular interest than any other thanks to the antagonism of some members of the Evangelical Theological Society and ...
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John E. Sanders is an American evangelical Christian theologian. He currently serves as professor of religion at Hendrix College. Sanders is best known for his promotion of open theism, but he has also written in defense of inclusivism. While Sanders is neither the first nor the definitive open theist, he has been the focus of more popular interest than any other thanks to the antagonism of some members of the Evangelical Theological Society and of the trustees at Huntington University toward his views. It is precisely because Sanders is a good human interest story that his is fast becoming the name to know in the field of free-will theism.
Sanders was born to Methodist parents in Central Illinois in 1956. He earned a bachelor's degree from Trinity College in 1979, a master’s degree from Wartburg Theological Seminary in 1987, and a Th.D. degree from the University of South Africa in 1996. He has served on faculty at Oak Hills Christian College in Minnesota, the University of Notre...
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