To complicate matters, there are fans of rationalistic and speculative forms of process thought who dwell on how process metaphysics, including God, transcend any particular history, reading Whitehead and Hartshorne as though they were
old historicists, like Paul Tillich.
Post-metaphysical
historicists win, when they do, not by out - arguing their opponents, but by out - narrating them, by telling a story with sufficient verve and inventiveness that others also want to tell versions of it, and in doing so to abandon their
older stories» in this case, the stories about truth and realism.