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...century's most original thinkers, Whitehead was a gentle, British-born mathematician and philosopher who died in 1947 at the age of 86, after teaching at Cambridge, the University of London and Harvard. In his newly published A Christian Natural Theology (Westminster; $6.50), Methodist John Cobb Jr. of the Southern California School of Theology hails Whitehead as the philosophical peer of Plato, Aristotle and Kant and argues that his complex thought provides a way "to restore the term 'God' to meaningful discourse in some real continuity with its historic...
Going on from Freud. Although his philosophy was deeply rooted in natural science, Whitehead found it necessary to employ an analysis of human experience as a basis for understanding nature. Cobb finds this approach particularly helpful to the task of theology because it takes into account both the post-Freudian understanding of man and the discoveries of modern physics. Classical metaphysics, says Cobb, got hung up on its static conception of reality; it assumed that a thing had an underlying, unchangeable substance-a notion rendered meaningless by discoveries of nuclear physics. Whitehead's view, more in harmony with contemporary...
Renewal of Ethics. Far from being heretical, argues Cobb, this notion of a developing God is the philosophic concept that is most in keeping with the Biblical testimony of a God who was "deeply involved with his creation and even with its suffering." He also believes that Whitehead's concept of man as a self-actualizing, responsible being in creative partnership with God may be a sensible starting point for a renewal of Christian ethics. Moreover, Whitehead's philosophic emphasis on becoming should help illuminate such church teachings as the "new being" of man in Christ...
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...redrawn to include more of Atlanta and less of farm counties, and in 1962 along came Weltner to run against Davis. He had imposing Southern credentials. One of his great-grandfathers was Georgia's first chief justice, Joseph Henry Lumpkin. Another great-grandfather was Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, a Confederate general who was killed at Fredericksburg. His father is a former chancellor of Georgia's university system and a onetime president of Oglethorpe University. Weltner himself attended Oglethorpe and got a law degree at Columbia University before settling down to an Atlanta practice...