The Lure and Necessity of Process Theology

Dorrien, Gary

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“…At the centre of process thought is the claim that becoming is more elemental than being because reality is fundamentally temporal and creative (Dorien, 2008: 316). It emphasizes movement and becoming rather than being or substance.…”

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“…A significant corollary of this position is the rejection of dualisms. As one commentator notes, process thought rejects the dualisms of mind/body, history/nature that grounded the anthropocentric bias of traditional Christianity (Dorien, 2008: 327). Whitehead asserts: ‘It is a false dichotomy to think of Nature and Man’ (1933: 99).…”

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Feminist New Materialism and Process Theology: Beginning the Dialogue

Hekman¹

2017

Feminist Theology

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For many years feminist theologians have found much in common with process theology. As a consequence a robust tradition has developed that links feminist theology with many aspects of process theology. An important element of this tradition is the attempt to draw similarities between postmodernism and feminist process theology. In this article I argue, first, that the connection between feminist process theology and postmodernism is philosophically problematic and, second, that another contemporary feminist approach, the new materialism, provides the basis for a more fruitful dialogue between feminist theology and process theology. My goal is to extend this dialogue.

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Feminist New Materialism and Process Theology: Beginning the Dialogue

Hekman¹

2017

Feminist Theology

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The Process Theology of John Elof Boodin

Flannery

2023

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Despite his impeccable academic pedigree, a protégé of Josiah Royce and a friend and student of William James, John Elof Boodin is nearly forgotten today among American philosophers; hence, an essential aspect of his thought lost to history is his contribution to process theology. The leading features of process thought demonstrate Boodin’s connections to this unique theology and show it to have been established early on, as early as 1900 and 1904. This places Boodin’s writing on process philosophy/theology well before Alfred North Whitehead, the putative pioneer in modern process metaphysics, by more than twenty years, and co-extensive with Henri Bergson, who influenced Whitehead. Nevertheless, when Boodin is discussed today, it is usually as an early pragmatist rather than as a process philosopher. The central claim of this essay argues that Boodin is best understood as a pragmatically influenced process theist, one of the first in a modern context. This historiographical revision will permit a better portrayal of process thought by revealing a more nuanced and pluralistic theological landscape beyond the standard Bergsonian/Whiteheadian/Hartshornian triumvirate.

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Concerns about the future of creation order

Verhoef

2011

Koers

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The theological background to the notion of the law of nature/ creation order is indispensable to the reformational tradition, which recognises that these laws are the Creator‟s will, and therefore holds a “necessity” view of these laws. There has, however, been a longstanding debate about the nature of law within the reformational tradition, where its origin and its status as boundary between God and creation have been questioned. In this article I will investigate how Trinitarian theology, specifically that of Robert W. Jenson, relates to process philosophy and theology, and how together they create some theological concerns about the future of creation order. Some of the concerns include the following: that the necessity of order is questioned (the disappearance of a Creator who wills these laws); that order is temporal and in constant change; and that the boundary between God and creation is weakened. I will raise some objections to these aspects, but will also highlight some questions the reformational tradition has to answer in terms of its understanding of the immanence of God and of the implicated theological basis for the creation order. These questions are of the utmost importance for the understanding of the future of creation order

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The Lure and Necessity of Process Theology

Cited by 3 publications

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Feminist New Materialism and Process Theology: Beginning the Dialogue

Feminist New Materialism and Process Theology: Beginning the Dialogue

The Process Theology of John Elof Boodin

Concerns about the future of creation order

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