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Process theology provides a unified vision for the integration of science and religion. It is better for science and better for religion.
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Intro to Process Theology
1. How can I have a faith that honors both science and the Bible?
2. Why does God cause bad things to happen?
"The teacher, if indeed wise, does not bid you to enter the house of their wisdom, but
leads you to the threshold of your own mind."
-Kahlil Gibran
Some process theologians
Intro to Process Theology
Science and Religion (God and the World)
Evil and Suffering
Jesus and Creative Transformation
Ethics: Pluralism, Economism, and Ecology
2 ways to do theologyConfessional
assumes the truth of various doctrines is based in a supernatural, infallible origin
considers itself immune to rational critique
Transdisciplinary
committed to the assessment of the validity of religious beliefs
rejects the idea that truth-claims are immune to criticism
interested in the truth and coherence of worldviews
SCIENCE RELIGION
"You cannot shelter theology from science, or science from theology; nor can you shelter either of them from
metaphysics, or metaphysics from either of them. There is no short cut to truth."
-A.N. Whitehead
SCIENCE RELIGION
One, unified worldview
a more subtle
science a deepe
r
religion
Whitehead's passiondetermined to take all the evidence into account
create one rational scheme of thought that is better for science and religion, a "harmony of truth"
overcome the real problems facing civilization
religion and science can both be dangerous when they don't take the other into account 1861-1947
God & World
World, no God
World
God
God World
Supernaturalism or Deism
Pantheism Atheism
Panentheism
Whitehead's analysis
Main problem: naturalism SAM sensationism, atheism, materialism
Main problem: supernaturalism
Science Religion
both are exaggerations, wrong, must change
SCIENCE RELIGION
One, unified worldview
a more subtle
science a deepe
r
religion
Naturalism
prehensive
panentheistic
panexperientialist{
God & World
World
World, no God
God
God World
Supernaturalism or Deism
Pantheism Atheism
Naturalism: *Panentheistic
Prehensive Panexperientialist
Key themesrelational
interdependence
emergence with novelty
reality is a dynamic, always changing process
experiential
future is open
freedom is real, built into the nature of things
Process theology sees the universe as creative,
interrelational, dynamic, and open to the future. In process theology, God is relational,
present in every moment of our lives and in all entities and levels of being. The world is
interconnected, in effect a giant ecosystem where what harms or
blesses one, harms or blesses all.
Next week: Evil and Suffering