Process Theology and its Relationship to Christian Doctrines
Process theology is a theological approach of the world resulting from cosmology. It arised from the knowledge of contemporary natural sciences, in particular the theory of relativity, the theory of biological evolution and quantum physics. It is a critical perspective developed from the philosophy of process of mathematician and logician Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) and developed by Charles Hartshorne and John B. Cobb during the twentieth century. A-HISTORICAL EVALUATION Although Whitehead was Hartshorne’s senior by thirty-six years, the two men began seriously to develop their ideas about God in written form at roughly the same time. In his Harvard doctoral dissertation (1923), Hartshorne argues for the existence of a God that is the eminent exemplification of relational and social values. Whitehead’s writings on the concept of God appear only after 1924, when he moved to America. Between the publication of Science and the Modern World (1925) and Pro...