Journal of Theological Studies

  God Created Mankind—The Imago Dei A few years ago, God created people. This has largely been considered by most theologians to be a rather big deal and thus has been the subject of many studies. After all, the record of our beginning, our genesis if you will, speaks volumes as to what it means to be human. Our creation answers much of who we are, where we come from, and even where we’re going. RELATED ARTICLE:  In God’s Image The Bible understands this and spends a remarkable amount of time on the subject, addressing it twice in the opening chapters of Genesis. In the opening Creation poem of chapter 1, man [1]  is pictured as the “crown of God’s handiwork” and the whole aim of the Creation process, [2]  while in Genesis 2, the focus shifts solely to man and woman’s creation and the physical forming of them. Books could be and indeed have been written just on the first two chapters of Genesis, so I won’t tackle  all  the subjects involved. Even today’s to...

  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...