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Bruce A. Ware

{{Short description|American theologian and academic}}

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| nationality = American

| occupation = T. Rupert and Lucille Coleman Professor of Christian Theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

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| education = Whitworth College, Western Conservative Baptist Seminary, University of Washington

| alma_mater = Fuller Theological Seminary (Ph.D.)

| school_tradition = Evangelicalism; Reformed Theology; Cessationism; Progressive Dispensationalism

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| discipline = Systematic Theology; Doctrine of God; Trinity

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| workplaces = Bethel Theological Seminary
Western Seminary
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

| main_interests = Open Theism; Theology Proper; Trinity

| notable_works = Their God is Too Small: Open Theism and the Undermining of Confidence in God

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| thesis_url = https://fuller.on.worldcat.org/oclc/11359455

| thesis_title = An Evangelical Reexamination of the Doctrine of the Immutability of God

| thesis_year = 1984

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Bruce A. Ware (born September 30, 1953) is an American theologian, former president of the Evangelical Theological Society, and a key figure in the debate over open theism.{{cite news|last=Robinson|first=Jeff|title=SBTS' Bruce Ware is ETS' new president|url=http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=29434|newspaper=Baptist Press|date=December 1, 2008|access-date=2012-10-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203143512/http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=29434#|archive-date=2014-02-03|url-status=dead}}

Education

{{cite web|title=Bruce A. Ware, At-Large Member|url=http://www.etsjets.org/node/2097|publisher=Evangelical Theological Society|access-date=2012-10-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130730083556/http://www.etsjets.org/node/2097#|archive-date=2013-07-30|url-status=dead}}

Career

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Works

=Books=

  • {{cite book|author1-last=Ware |author1-first=Bruce A. |author2-last=Schreiner |author2-first=Thomas R. |author2-link=Thomas R. Schreiner |title=Still Sovereign: Contemporary Perspectives on Election, Foreknowledge, and Grace |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Baker Books |date=1995 |isbn=9780801022326 |oclc=53288151 }}
  • {{cite book|author1-last=Ware |author1-first=Bruce A. |author1-mask=3 |title=God's Lesser Glory: The Diminished God of Open Theism |location=Wheaton, IL |publisher=Crossway Books |date=2000 |isbn=9781581342291 |oclc=44775399 }}
  • {{cite book|author1-last=Ware |author1-first=Bruce A. |author1-mask=3 |title=Their God is Too Small: Open Theism and the Undermining of Confidence in God |location=Wheaton, IL |publisher=Crossway Books |date=2003 |isbn=9781581344813 |oclc=52057699 }}
  • {{cite book|author1-last=Ware |author1-first=Bruce A. |author1-mask=3 |title=God's Greater Glory: The Exalted God of Scripture and the Christian Faith |location=Wheaton, IL |publisher=Crossway Books |date=2004 |isbn= 9781581344431 |oclc=56334001 }}
  • {{cite book|author1-last=Ware |author1-first=Bruce A. |author1-mask=3 |title=Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: Relationships, Roles, and Relevance |location=Wheaton, IL |publisher=Crossway Books |date=2004 |isbn=9781581346688 |oclc=56825509 }}
  • Serving God with Determined Faith: Studies in the Book of Nehemiah (2005)
  • {{cite book|author1-last=Ware |author1-first=Bruce A. |author1-mask=3 |title=Big Truths for Young Hearts |location=Wheaton, IL |publisher=Crossway Books |date=2009 |isbn=9781433523144 |oclc=769341433 }}
  • {{cite book|author1-last=Ware |author1-first=Bruce A. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Man Jesus Christ: Theological Reflections on the Humanity of Christ |location=Wheaton, IL |publisher=Crossway Books |date=2012 |isbn=9781433524165 |oclc=818819635 }}

=As editor=

  • {{cite book|editor1-last=Ware |editor1-first=Bruce A. |editor1-mask=3 |editor2-last=Schreiner |editor2-first=Thomas R. |editor2-link=Thomas R. Schreiner |title=The Grace of God, the Bondage of the Will |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Baker Books |date=1995 |isbn=9780801020025 |oclc=33079725}}
  • {{cite book|editor1-last=Ware |editor1-first=Bruce A. |editor1-mask=3 |title=Perspectives on the Doctrine of God: 4 Views |location=Nashville, TN |publisher=B&H Academic |date=2007 |isbn=9780805430608 |oclc=156832175 }}

=Articles and chapters=

  • {{cite journal|author1-last=Ware |author1-first=Bruce A. |author1-mask=3 |title=Despair amidst suffering and pain: a practical outworking of open theism's diminished view of God |journal=Southern Baptist Journal of Theology |volume=4 |issue=2 |date=Summer 2000 |pages=56–75 }}
  • {{cite journal|author1-last=Ware |author1-first=Bruce A. |author1-mask=3 |title=Tampering With the Trinity: Does the Son Submit to His Father? |journal=Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood |volume=6 |issue=1 |date=Spring 2001 |pages=4–12 }}
  • {{cite journal|author1-last=Ware |author1-first=Bruce A. |author1-mask=3 |title=Defining Evangelicalism's Boundaries Theologically: Is Open Theism Evangelical? |journal=Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society |volume=45 |issue=2 |date=June 2002 |pages=193–212 }}
  • {{cite journal|author1-last=Ware |author1-first=Bruce A. |author1-mask=3 |title=Rejoinder to Replies by Clark H. Pinnock, John Sanders, and Gregory A. Boyd |journal=Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society |volume=45 |issue=2 |date=June 2002 |pages=245–256 }}
  • {{cite book|author1-last=Ware |author1-first=Bruce A. |author1-mask=3 |chapter=Divine election to salvation |editor1-last=Brand |editor1-first=Chad Owen |editor1-link=Chad Owen Brand |title=Perspectives on Election: five views |location=Nashville, TN |publisher=Broadman & Holman Publishers |date=2006 |isbn=9780805427295 |oclc=73275402 }}
  • {{cite journal|author1-last=Ware |author1-first=Bruce A. |author1-mask=3 |title=Cur Deus Trinus? The Relation of the Trinity to Christ's Identity as Savior and to the Efficacy of his Atoning Death |journal=Southern Baptist Journal of Theology |volume=10 |issue=1 |date=Spring 2006 |pages=48–56 }}
  • "Unity and Distinction of the Trinitarian Persons." In Whtifield, Keith S. (ed.) Trinitarian Theology: Theological Models and Doctrinal Application. Nashville, TN: B&H Academic. 2018. pp. 17–62. {{isbn|978-1535958066}}

References

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External links

  • [https://www.sbts.edu/academics/faculty/bruce-a-ware/ Faculty page at Southern Seminary]

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Category:1953 births

Category:Living people

Category:American Baptist theologians

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Category:Southern Baptist Theological Seminary faculty

Category:Trinity Evangelical Divinity School alumni

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Category:Presidents of the Evangelical Theological Society

Category:Evangelical theologians

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