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...Biblical Scholar Rudolf Bultmann and his disciples, is to see the meaning of God in existential terms. But many U.S. Protestant theologians find it impossible to live without God or to preach him existentially, and the process theologians are trying another way based on the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead and his best-known disciple, Charles Hartshorne of the University of Texas...
...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...
...letter in the current Variety, Harold R. Scott '57 points out that "the Negro members of the original company were signed to only one-year contracts by the previous co-directors, Elia Kazan and Robert Whitehead, while the majority of the permanent members were signed to two-year contracts." None of the Negroes' contracts has been renewed...
...female lead, Barbara Loden, into a Broadway star. Of the theatre's other productions, O'Neill's Marco Millions and S.N. Behrman's But for Whom Charlie were coolly received, and The Changeling was disastrous. Because of The Changeling, the Center's Board of Directors decided to fire Robert Whitehead, the theatre's artistic director. With him went Elia Kazan, the director, and Arthur Miller, who will withdraw After the Fall and Incident at Vichy from repertory after this season...