Divine Power in Process Theism

Divine Power in Process Theism
Author: David Basinger
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780887067082

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Divine Power in Process Theism

Divine Power in Process Theism
Author: David Basinger
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1988-07-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780887067099

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Process theology likes to compare itself favorably to what it calls classical theism. This book takes that comparison seriously and examines process theology's claim to do better than classical theism. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

God, Power, and Evil

God, Power, and Evil
Author: David Ray Griffin
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664229061

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The baffling age-old question, if there is a good God, why is there evil in the world? has troubled ordinary people and great thinkers for centuries. God, Power, and Evil illuminates the issues by providing both a critical historical survey of theodicy as presented in the works of major Western philosophers and theologians--Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, Aquinas, Spinoza, Luther, Calvin, Leibniz, Barth, John Hick, James Ross, Fackenheim, Brunner, Berkeley, Albert Knudson, E. S. Brighton, and others--and a brilliant constructive statement of an understanding of theodicy written from the perspective of the process philosophical and theological thought inspired primarily by Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne.

God of Becoming and Relationship

God of Becoming and Relationship
Author: Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, DHL
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2013-10-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1580237886

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You no longer have to choose between what you know and what you believe—an accessible introduction to a theological game-changer. "I wrote this book for you if you want to be able to locate your life in a single, encompassing story, one that includes everything from the first moment the universe began until yesterday, a narrative that embraces deepest personal meaning, a yearning to love and be loved, a quest for social justice and compassion." —from the Introduction Much of what you were told you should believe when you were younger forces you to choose between your spirit and your intellect, between science and religion, between morality and dogma: unchanging laws of nature vs. miracles that sound magical; a good God vs. the tragedies that strike all living creatures; a God who knows the future absolutely vs. an open future that you help to shape through your choices. This fascinating introduction to Process Theology from a Jewish perspective shows that these are false choices. Inspiring speaker, spiritual leader and philosopher Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson presents an overview of what Process Theology is and what it can mean for your spiritual life. He explains how Process Theology can break you free from the strictures of ancient Greek and medieval European philosophy, allowing you to see all creation not as this or that, us or them, but as related patterns of energy through which we connect to everything. Armed with Process insights and tools, you can break free from outdated religious dichotomies and affirm that your religiosity, your spirit, your mind and your ethics all strengthen and refine each other.

Process Theology

Process Theology
Author: Robert C Mesle
Publisher: Chalice Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780827229457

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Where is God when a child runs in front of a car? This primer introduces the reader to a new way of understanding God that offers us a more meaningful and clearer vision of God and the world we live in.

Divine Power and Evil

Divine Power and Evil
Author: Kenneth K. Pak
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2016-04-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1317148894

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Evil perplexes us all and threatens to undermine the meaningfulness of our existence. How can we reconcile the reality of evil with the notion of a God who is perfectly good and powerful? Process theodicy, whose foremost proponent is David Griffin, suggests one answer: because every being possesses its own power of self-determination in order for God to attain the divine aim of higher goodness for the world, God must take the risk of the possibility of evil. Divine Power and Evil responds to Griffin's criticisms against traditional theodicy, assesses the merits of process theodicy, and points out ways in which traditional theism could incorporate a number of Griffin's valuable insights in progressing toward a philosophically and theologically satisfactory theodicy. It provides a new and important contribution to a long-standing debate within philosophy of religion and theology.

Divine Power

Divine Power
Author: Sheila Greeve Davaney
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1986
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

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God in Process Thought

God in Process Thought
Author: S. Sia
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9400950691

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One of the controversial issQes which have recently come into prominence among philosophers and theologians is how one should understand the term l God. It seems that, despite the fact that a certain idea of God is assumed by not most, people, there is a degree of disagreement over the meaning many, if of the term. "God" is generally taken to refer to a supreme Being, the Creator, who is perfect and self-existent, holy, personal and loving. This understanding of "God" corresponds to what many have either been brought up to believe in or have come to accept as the meaning of this word. Neverthe less, theists appear to be defending a particular idea of God and to be accusing atheists of attacking another, one which does not tie in with the theistic interpretation. Cardinal Maximos IV, for instance, is quoted as saying, "The God the atheists don't believe in is a God I don't believe in either. "2 On the other hand, atheists have been challenging believers to explain clearly what they mean by "God" because these critics cannot see how that idea can have any acceptable meaning. Furthermore, theists them selves seem to be divided over the issue. H. P. Owen in his book Concepts of Deity shows quite convincingly that there is "a bewildering variety of concepts of God" among theists. ' One has only to ask around for confirma tion of this observation.

She Who Changes

She Who Changes
Author: C. Christ
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1403976791

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Can we re-imagine divine power as deeply related to the changing world? Can we re-imagine the creation of the world as an ongoing process of co-creation in which every individual from particles of atoms to human beings plays a part? Can we re-imagine Goddess/God as the most relational of all relational beings? Can we re-imagine the world as the body of Goddess/God? If we can, then we can understand the deeper meaning of female images of divine power, including Goddess, God-She, Sophia, and Shekhina. Many traditional understandings of divine power begin with thinly disguised rejections of the female body and connection to the natural world. Women theologians from Jewish, Christian, Goddess, and other traditions are re-imagining divine and human power as embodied, embedded in a changing world, and deeply related to all beings in the web of life. Drawing on the work of process philosopher Charles Hartshorne - whose insights deserve a wider hearing - Carol P. Christ offers intellectual foundations for deeply held feelings about the meanings of female images of divine power. Her gift is the ability to make complex ideas seem simple and radically new ideas seem familiar. This book is addressed to everyone who has ever wondered about the implications of re-imagining God as female.

Evil and the Process God

Evil and the Process God
Author: Barry L. Whitney
Publisher: New York ; Toronto : E. Mellen Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1985
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

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This study examines the contributions of process theology to the theodicy issue, concentrating primarily on the work of Charles Hartshorne.