God is not omnipotent in the sense of being coercive.
It is as true to say that God creates the World, as that the World creates God.It is as true to say that God transcends the World, as that the World transcends God.It is as true to say that the World is immanent in God, as that God is immanent in the World.It is as true to say that, in comparison with the World, God is actual eminently, as that, in comparison with God, the World is actual eminently.It is as true to say that God is one and the World many, as that the World is one and God many.It is as true to say that God is permanent and the World fluent, as that the World is permanent and God is fluent.Whitehead's classical statement is a set of antithetical statements that attempt to avoid self-contradiction by shifting them from a set of oppositions into a contrast: Richard Stadelmann has worked to preserve the uniqueness of Jesus in process theology. Īlan Anderson and Deb Whitehouse have applied process theology to the New Thought variant of Christianity. Kaufman, Harold Kushner, Anson Laytner, Michael Lerner, Gilbert S. Contemporary Jewish theologians who advocate some form of process theology include Bradley Shavit Artson, Lawrence A. Olan, Harry Slominsky, and, to a lesser degree, Abraham Joshua Heschel. Process theology soon influenced a number of Jewish theologians including Rabbis Max Kadushin, Milton Steinberg, Levi A. Hartshorne was deeply influenced by French philosopher Jules Lequier and by Swiss philosopher Charles Secrétan who were probably the first ones to claim that in God liberty of becoming is above his substantiality. A characteristic of process theology each of these thinkers shared was a rejection of metaphysics that privilege " being" over " becoming", particularly those of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. Various theological and philosophical aspects have been expanded and developed by Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000), John B. This use of the term calls attention to affinities between these otherwise quite different traditions." Also Pierre Teilhard de Chardin can be included among process theologians, even if they are generally understood as referring to the Whiteheadian/Hartshornean school, where there continue to be ongoing debates within the field on the nature of God, the relationship of God and the world, and immortality. Hegel is process theology just as much as that influenced by Whitehead. Īccording to Cobb, "process theology may refer to all forms of theology that emphasize event, occurrence, or becoming over substance. Process theology does not deny that God is in some respects eternal (will never die), immutable (in the sense that God is unchangingly good), and impassible (in the sense that God's eternal aspect is unaffected by actuality), but it contradicts the classical view by insisting that God is in some respects temporal, mutable, and passible. Process theology and process philosophy are collectively referred to as "process thought".įor both Whitehead and Hartshorne, it is an essential attribute of God to affect and be affected by temporal processes, contrary to the forms of theism that hold God to be in all respects non-temporal ( eternal), unchanging ( immutable), and unaffected by the world ( impassible). Process theology is a type of theology developed from Alfred North Whitehead's (1861–1947) process philosophy, but most notably by Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000), John B.
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