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Process Theology

“I am innocent, but I no longer care. I am sick of living. Nothing matters; innocent or guilty, God will destroy us” (Job 9:22-23). Process Theology. Use red book pg. 6. Tie in Elie Wiesel and Brothers Karamazov – putting God on trial. Uni file.

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Process Theology

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  1. “I am innocent, but I no longer care. I am sick of living. Nothing matters; innocent or guilty, God will destroy us” (Job 9:22-23).

  2. Process Theology • Use red book pg. 6. Tie in Elie Wiesel and Brothers Karamazov – putting God on trial. Uni file. • Jurgen Moltmann justifies the suffering of humanity with the Christian belief that God suffered on the cross. Evil is something to be fought constantly, with the knowledge that God has suffered alongside his creation.

  3. David Griffin (after A N Whitehead) argues that God is not omnipotent. The universe is an uncreated process which ‘includes’ the deity. God is therefore a part of the world, and confined by it. His involvement in creation was an initiator alone.

  4. God, as part of the world, is affected by it, but unable to control it. God is therefore the ‘fellow sufferer who understands’ (Whitehead) • God’s creative choice was either to create a universe with suffering in it, or for there to be no universe at all.

  5. Note that God in Process Theology is not omnipotent. God’s role in creation is limited – he is bound by the laws of nature. However, God is still held responsible for evil, since he began the process knowing that he would not be able to control it.

  6. Problems • It simply replaces an onmipotent God with an impotent (if sympathetic) God : rather than trying to reconcile the classic concept of God with the existence of evil, it simply ‘sacks’ him.

  7. Panentheism • “All is in God” • God is held to be the true perfection. • ‘True perfection’ – absoluteness, immutability, eternity and independence, but also perfect rationality, mutability, ect. • God includes the world, so God’s experience is related to the world, altered by changes in the world and involved in the process in the world. The best analogy is that of mind and body.

  8. Conclusions?? • Solutions offered valid points. • Each considerable shortcomings. • No theoretical solution – as Job discovered – humans accept mystery we cannot understand. Faith – practical guide enabling cope with suffering. • H.H. Farmer expresses: “The Failure of theism to solve all of it’s mysteries becomes part of it’s case”. British Philosopher (1892-1981)

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