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- Process theology, inspired by the thought of Alfred North Whitehead, and liberation theology, prompted by the experience of oppression in Latin America, are two distinct and separate forms of contemporary Christian theology that both provoke and compel our attention.
Process theology and process philosophy are collectively referred to as "process thought". For 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 ...
Oct 25, 2024 · Liberation theology is a religious movement that arose in late 20th-century Roman Catholicism and was centered in Latin America. It seeks to apply religious faith by aiding the poor and oppressed through involvement in political and civic affairs.
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Definition. The theology of liberation is a combination of Marxist philosophy with certain biblical motifs. It argues that we should reconstruct the whole of Christian theology by seeing it through the “axis of the oppressor and the oppressed.”.
- Background of Process Theology
- Developments Behind Process Theology
- Understanding Classical Christian Theology
- The Contrast of Classical and Process Theology
- Summary of Process Theology
Stemming initially from Alfred N. Whitehead’s Process and Reality(published in 1929), Process Theology has gained widespread interest and acceptance among non-evangelical scholars in the latter half of the twentieth century. Some of the key figures in the movement beside Whitehead are Charles Hartshorne, John Cobb, David Ray Griffin, Schubert Ogden...
There are several major developments behind the development of process theology. On the one hand, advances in science made it impossible to believe in Newtonian physics. Given quantum mechanics and relativity theory, it was concluded that the proper way to understand reality is that it is in a constant state of change. The Newtonian view that the w...
While these anti-supernaturalist views are expected in the contemporary era, more than just a rejection of the miraculous stands behind process theology. In particular, process thinkers reject the Classical Christian notion of God as portrayed in the Bible and espoused by many Christians. Of special concern are the divine attributes of immutability...
Needless to say, Process thinkers find the Classical God to be totally inadequate, and they cannot see how anyone would want to worship and follow him. So, how do Process thinkers understand the nature of reality and of God? They claim that the simplest things the world is composed of are actual entities. Those entities make up everything that exis...
Whitehead and his followers affirm that nothing that exists fails to be an actual entity of the sort noted. That includes God. According to process theists, God is bi-polar. His primordial, conceptual pole is the totality of all possibilities that actual entities can become. In Whitehead’s work, this was taken to mean one of two different things. O...
Liberation theology focuses attention on the political sphere, whereas process theology has devoted considerable attention to the cultural and religious spheres. This difference of focus is part of the reason that justice has played a much smaller role in process theology.
Jul 29, 2004 · Moreover, process theism is a genuinely philosophical theology in the sense that it is not grounded in claims of special insight or revealed truth but in philosophical reflection. Specifically, process theism is a product of theorizing that takes the categories of becoming, change, and time as foundational for metaphysics.
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Liberation theology is a way of seeing theology as primarily something you do in order to help oppressed people. Although it started with Marxist-influenced Latin American theologians, this way of framing theology has expanded into additional liberation movements, such as black theology and feminist theology .
