Not exact matches
Process is a
theology that has grown over the last 100
years from the philosophy of Mr. Whitehead.
In more recent
years under the stimulus of Whitehead's thought and the constructive work of Charles Hartshorne, certain theologians have been developing «
process theology» as a systematic theological outlook.
Richard Stein, an ordinand in his final
year of training for ministry, described the
process as an enriching one that led him to embrace a more evangelical
theology than the one he had arrived with: «I came into college with a fairly open view towards homosexuality, and even said I'd be happy to perform gay marriages.
It is important to realize that, while
process theology has recently received considerable attention in both religious and popular journals, this development, though lacking the organization of a movement, has been under way for more than forty
years.
In the past twenty
years, several books and articles have been written which are critical of
process theology.
My public lecture in that
year was followed by other invitations, three in Britain and one in the United States, to give a brief and popular account of
process - thought and its importance for Christian
theology.
we have to unite by finding a common ground, scientific
theology is the answer, we have to believe that all religions belongs to Him, the god who created scientifically and beyond any reasonable doubt that all came from the big bang 13.7 billion
years ago.we evolved later to bcome what we are, the evolution of different religious faith in the past is just part of the evolutionary
process, but all is under His guidance by evolutionary will.we are part of Him,
Through collecting and reworking many of his previously published articles, Ford will attempt in this new book to formulate the requisite complementary natural
theology for Whitehead's cosmology in historical conversation with, and in dialectical opposition to, a number of contrasting perspectives on creativity, temporality, immutability, theodicy, and technical (internal) problems in
process metaphysics put forth by Robert Neville, Norris Clarke, Donald Sherburne, and other colleagues over the
years.
If we are to re-evangelise the modern world, and in the
process answer the false or flawed
theologies which have arisen to plague us in the last thirty
years, we must be able to offer something deeper and more fulfilling, but completely true to the apostolic faith.
Such an approach would neglect the temporal priority of empirical
theology to
process theology, as well as the relative independence of empirical
theology over the
years.
After two generations of
process theology this is finally, perhaps, being attempted; but surely it is a fact of some significance that
process theology could exist for nearly forty
years even while ignoring virtually all of the central or unique affirmations of the Christian faith.
I must confess that I had overlooked Griffin's eventual admission (in Evil Revisited) published 15
years after
Process Theology) that God's so deceiving us would be «morally questionable.»
Recent
years have seen the emergence of existential, relational, phenomenological, and even
process interpretations of Holiness
theology!
Process theology has been a major preoccupation of American studies for the past fifty
years.
Secondly, though other
process philosophers have been influential within Christian
theology, in recent
years Whiteheadian
process philosophy has generated increasing interest and excitement as a philosophical basis for Christian thought.
The subject of those talks was the meaning of human existence, in its various relationships, as understood in that sort of theological inquiry with which for many
years I have been associated — namely,
Process Theology.