ETS Leadership Issues Recommendations on Kicking Out Open Theists

From CT on the ETS debate over Open Theism

In a surprise move one month before the Evangelical Theological Society is scheduled to again discuss open theism (the belief that God neither knows nor usually predetermines human actions), the society's executive committee issued differing recommendations on whether two major proponents of the theory should remain members.
Last year, ETS founding member Roger Nicole brought charges against Clark Pinnock and John Sanders, claiming they published books that violate the society's doctrinal statement.
Calling itself "a grand jury of sorts … [with] no binding power upon the Society," a majority of the executive committee recommended that charges be sustained against John Sanders, and recommended to ETS members that they vote for his dismissal from the group at their annual meeting next month.
However, after Clark Pinnock offered to change a controversial passage in his 2001 book Most Moved Mover, the executive committee unanimously recommended that he not be removed from the society.

It continues with this about Clark Pinnock

The chief complaint against Pinnock, who retired from McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, mainly focused on a footnote on "unfulfilled" prophecies, especially its assertion that " "contrary to Paul, the second coming was not just around the corner (1 Thes. 4:17)." Pinnock said that his language in that note "Unintentionally and unfortunately … strays beyond what I was getting at, and is thus objectionable. … I do not believe that God's prophets ever err. They always tell the truth when all is said and done."
While Sanders's conversation with the committee convinced some members that he did not truly believe in Scripture's inerrancy, Pinnock's explanations in a later meeting the same day had the opposite effect, the committee said, convincing them that he agrees with the society's standards of doctrine. A rewriting of his footnote, along with an explanation of the changes, satisfied even Nicole.
The committee's recommendations all but guarantee that Pinnock will not be excluded from membership at the November 19 meeting. Last year, the vote to challenge his membership at all passed by a narrow 171 to 137 margin—which, ironically, was 11 votes wider than the 166 to 143 decision to challenge Sanders's membership. In a post card to Howard after reading the recommendations, Nicole wrote, "I expect that the annual meeting will not dismiss Pinnock, but that there may be an adverse 2/3 vote for Sanders. I am sure that both of these men will henceforth be more careful about what they write!"
All sides of the debate emphasize that the November vote is not a referendum on the truth of open theism or whether it is an acceptable theology for evangelicals. In 2001, ETS members overwhelmingly passed a resolution criticizing the doctrine. The statement, "We believe the Bible clearly teaches that God has complete, accurate, and infallible knowledge of all events past, present, and future, including all future decisions and actions of free moral agents," passed by a 70 percent margin, with 11 percent of members abstaining.