Recently I listened to a debate online between two
biblical scholars — one a famous British academic who holds a more or less traditionally
orthodox view of Christianity and the Bible, the other an American and well - known former fundamentalist turned aggressive agnostic.
Rather than saying that Whitehead was very deficiently Christian by
orthodox standards, Morris B. Cohen and Bertrand Russell complained that he was excessively Christian, or at least too Christian to be a rational philosopher.7 Whitehead, from a purely rational point of
view, was, as Pascal and James before him, a defender of emotion and feeling, or in
Biblical terms, a defender of the heart, the raison.