Tradition · 20th-century Anglophone philosophy of religion: Whitehead and Hartshorne's footprints, ecumenical Christian adoption, occasional Jewish and Buddhist interest in dipolar compassion models. 2 essays
Process theology
Whitehead's metaphysic as open God—creative advance, dipolar deity, tragedy taken seriously
Process thought imagines God persuasive rather than coercive, related to the world in constitutive reciprocity—panentheism with metaphysical bookkeeping. It reopens theodicy’s questions: if God feels suffering, does omnipotence mean something stranger than control?
Critics cite complexity and biblical tension; proponents offer environmental ethics and interfaith bridges.
Outdeus treats process theology as scaffolding for panentheistic grammar, dynamic divine attributes, and eschatology reimagined as lure rather than force—an honest modern frame for cosmic friendship without flinching from pain.
- Concepts
- Panentheism ·Theodicy ·Divine attributes ·Revelation ·Eschatology
- Figures
- Karen Armstrong ·William James ·Plato ·Thomas Aquinas ·Julian of Norwich
Essays · 2 in total