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The document provides an introduction to process theology. It notes that process theology grew out of the work of Alfred North Whitehead in the 1930s at the Chicago Divinity School. Process theology was further developed by philosophers like Charles Hartshorne, who proposed that God is dipolar - having both a primordial and a consequent nature. The introduction lays the foundation for a critical appraisal of the key contours and concepts within process theology.

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Process Theology

The document provides an introduction to process theology. It notes that process theology grew out of the work of Alfred North Whitehead in the 1930s at the Chicago Divinity School. Process theology was further developed by philosophers like Charles Hartshorne, who proposed that God is dipolar - having both a primordial and a consequent nature. The introduction lays the foundation for a critical appraisal of the key contours and concepts within process theology.

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UNITED THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE

Course: Trends in 20th Century Theology


Course Facilitator: Prof. Dr. R. Sahaydhas
Presenter: Rev. Joel Samuel Thomas, M.Th. I

A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF THE CONTOURS OF PROCESS


THEOLOGY

1. INTRODUCTION

The term ‘Process Theology’ is often used in a narrow sense to denote the school of thought
which grew up at the Chicago Divinity School in the1930’s under the influence of Alfred N.
Whitehead’s writings.1

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John B. Cobb Jr, Process Theology as Political Theology (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press,1982), 35
Lawrence Osborne, Process Theology (Leicester: Religious and Theological Studies Fellowship, 1985), 3
Bruce G. Epperly, Process Theology: A Guide for The Perplexed (London, New York: T&T Clark International,
2011), 9
Victor Lowe, Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and His Work, Volume I: 1861–1910 (Baltimore, MD: The Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1985), 9 cited in Bruce G. Epperly, Process Theology: A Guide for The Perplexed
(London, New York: T&T Clark International, 2011), 10
Epperly, Process Theology, 10
John W. Cooper, Panentheism: The Other God of the Philosophers (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006), 342
Johanna Seibt, "Process Philosophy", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2022 Edition), Edward N.
Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2022/entries/process-philosophy/>
Dan Dombrowski, "Charles Hartshorne", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2022 Edition), Edward N.
Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2022/entries/hartshorne/>
Charles Hartshorne, Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes (Albany: State University of New York, 1984),
20—26
John Cobb and David Griffin, Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition (Philadelphia: Westminster Press,
1976), 14—16, chapter 1
Hartshorne, Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes, 32−36
Donald Wayne

Viney, "Charles Hartshorne: Dipolar Theism." Harvard Square Library. September 26, 2022.
https://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/charles-hartshorne-dipolar-theism/
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