Word: whitehead
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Other philosophical theologians, such as Schubert Ogden of Southern Methodist University and John Cobb of the Southern California School of Theology, have been working out a theism based on the process thinking of Alfred North Whitehead. In their view, God is changing with the universe. Instead of thinking of God as the immutable Prime Mover of the universe, argues Ogden, it makes more sense to describe him as "the ultimate effect" and as "the eminently relative One, whose openness to change contingently on the actions of others is literally boundless." In brief, the world is creating God as much...
...European extremists panicked as white colonialism began to break up in Africa and world pressure on the Europeans in Rhodesia mounted. Prime Minister Garfield Todd was thrown out of office for being too liberal, Sir Edgar Whitehead did not last much longer, Winston Field tried hard to pacify the extremists without success, and Ian Smith succeeded in calming them only with his declaration of independence. Now the small group of European extremists thinks that free from interference by Britain they can develop the country in the most "sensible" way for both Europeans and Africans. In their alarm they have jumped...
...wave of public reaction forced the Party to scuttle Todd, and his place was taken by Sir Edgar Whitehead, a conservative farmer from Umtali. To restore his party's shattered image, Whitehead took up the settlers' ever-present demands for full independence from Britain. Britain's prerequisite was a constitutional conference to which all political
Classical Christian theology holds that a transcendent Creator called life into being out of nothingness by an act of divine will, and governs the universe from outside creation-all-powerful, timeless and unchangeable. But Whitehead argued that a dynamic world could not have a static Creator who was exempt from the maturation experienced by finite beings. He therefore proposed that God, the source of all unactualized possibilities, was constantly creating within the universe. Thus God, like all other beings, is in some aspects incomplete and is man's companion on the creative advance toward perfection...
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...