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To summarize, process-relational theology makes the following affirmations about God: God is present lovingly in every moment of life. God seeks beauty, complexity, and wholeness in each moment of life. God’s truly experiences the world: God’s experience is shaped by the world.
- God Whispers, “You Could Be This”: An Introduction to Process ...
Process theology (or process-relational theology as it is...
- God Whispers, “You Could Be This”: An Introduction to Process ...
- Introduction and Definitions
- Theological Understanding and The Creator-Creature Distinction
- Theological Understanding and The Nature and Extent of Sin
- Theological Understanding and The New Creation and Final Judgment
The term “theology,” combining theos (God) and logos(word about, or study of), refers most literally to the study of God. Yet this term is used for the study of humanity, and sin, and salvation, and the church, and last things (and more). The reason “theology” may rightly be used of these other areas is this: theology is the study of God and his re...
One of the most important aspects of a Christian worldview is affirming what is sometimes called the Creator-creature distinction. God, as eternal, self-existent, self-sufficient, infinite, simple, and omnipotent, exists eternally independent of anything created and finite in the infinite fullness of life and joy as the Triune God. Since the world ...
Consider also some aspects of a correct theological understanding of the nature of our sin and of the salvation God has brought to us in Christ. One of the starkest contrasts between a Christian with a theologically-informed worldview and that of the culture of which we are apart is the basic understanding of why bad things happen and what to do ab...
Of the many areas of theology we could rightly consider further, may we look lastly to the difference a correct theological understanding makes regarding the end of history and the establishing of the new creation. Certainly there are areas here that have frustrated full consensus among thoughtful Christian thinkers over the centuries. We differ ov...
Feb 4, 2003 · Process philosophy can play a role in any of these forms of theology. It can inform biblical theologians in helping them to overcome the weight of traditional categories of thought, derived from the Greeks, in the traditional interpretation of the Bible.
Jul 29, 2004 · As Boethius says in The Consolation of Philosophy (book 5, prose 6), eternity is the complete, simultaneous and perfect possession of everlasting life. Process theism takes a contrary view that time is the process of creation. In other words, the order of beings in time is the process whereby beings are created.
Process theology (or process-relational theology as it is called by some of its proponents today) is an approach to thinking about the major claims of the Christian faith using a philosophy developed by Alfred North Whitehead in the early 20th century.
Process-relational theologians integrate implications of a thoroughly interdependent universe into how we live and express our faith. We are convinced that everything is dynamically interconnected; that everything matters; that everything has an effect.
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Process theology is a type of theology developed from Alfred North Whitehead‘s (1861–1947) process philosophy, most notably by Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) and John B. Cobb (b. 1925). Process theology and process philosophy are collectively referred to as “process thought”.
