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Title: Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes by Charles Hartshorne ISBN: 0-87395-771-7 Publisher: State University of New York Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Postmodernism and Other Theological Mistakes
Comment: Charles Hartshorne is the architect of contemporary process theology; he more than anyone is responsible for taking Whitehead's philosophy and translating it into a viable Christian theology. I say "Christian" advisedly. The astute reader will begin to notice that there is little here that is Christian in any recognizable traditional sense. Here's a major one: Hartshorne doesn't believe in personal survival after bodily death ("If Christ be not risen... your hope is in vain," but that was only St Paul, after all -- and process theology is very eager to impugn the most ancient Christian witnesses and exalt 20th century liberal theologians as authorities in their stead...). Supposedly, rather than desire personal survival and eternity in the embrace of the God of love, we should be satisfied that everything we have ever done or been or thought is preserved objectively in God, although our subjectivity is no more. Would a loving God be satisfied with this? Or would he not desire the genuine LIFE of His beloved, and would he stop at anything less? What kind of vision of God is this? I won't mention Hartsorne's execrable excursus on abortion, which should horrify anyone with a functioning moral intuition (and his thought would lead right to Peter Singer's embrace of infanticide, by the way). This is all only a sample. By cutting loose from the moorings of traditional Christianity, process thought has set off on its own and has essentially become a new religion, a kind of evolutionary paganism. To those enamored of process theology as a solution for theism's quandaries, especially theodicy, I'd caution you that other possibile avenues of thought are available which do not end up completely destroying the foundations of Christianity (namely the Trinity and the Incarnation, both of which are completely foreign to process thought -- especially the Incarnation: process thought can conceive a man decisively influenced by God, but could never conceive of the God-man; its God, despite their rhetoric of God's relatedness, is ultimately divided from humanity by an unbridgeable chasm). For a start, I would recommmend "The Bride of the Lamb" by Fr Sergius Bulgakov, if process theology has not already ruined your appreciation for speculative theological thought.
Rating: 5
Summary: Makes Religion make sense again.
Comment: For many of us who are 'professional Christians' known as clergy coming to terms with the fact that Classic Christian theology is neither Biblical nor is it believable in a scientific age can be traumatic indeed. Gods that hurl lightening and run around dressed in smoke and fire and appear on earth as human beings are simply not credible any longer.
The churches which are mostly run by men (almost all of them) cling with great tenacity to these patristic, domination/submission antiquities because it bolsters the male ego to know that he and he alone is made in the image of one of these gods, Allah, Yaweh or whoever.
Process theology and process thought allow us to have religion without this primative god stuff to make us decide that we have either to check our brain at the door of the church or avoid the church altogether. The fact is that more and more people make exactly one of those two choices. Those who are willing to check their brains at the door are fundamentalists of various sorts and persuasions. Those who are unwilling to give up the scientific, rational worldview of today check out of the church altogether.
Rating: 5
Summary: A pleasure to read
Comment: If you read theology for fun, this is the book for you! Hartshorne is often convincing but always interesting. He knows his subject and presents it well. His writing style is clear and does not require that the reader have a strong background. I have only two reservations. The first is that his arguments are occasionally summaries of points he makes in greater detail elsewhere, and so he is a little less convincing here, and that no one should read this book at night if they have to get up early the next day. Insomniacs beware!
On the other hand, if you want a book to wake someone up, this is an excellent gift.
I enjoyed the way his vision makes some of the more pecular things Jesus said sound perfectly reasonable. How often has anyone addressed why you should love your neighbor as yourself? Why should you give to everyone who asks of you and not just the deserving? What does it mean to love God with your whole heart.
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Title: Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition by John B. Cobb ISBN: 0664247431 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1977 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Process Theology: A Basic Introduction by C. Robert Mesle, John B., Jr. Cobb ISBN: 0827229453 Publisher: Chalice Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Becoming a Thinking Christian by John B., Jr. Cobb ISBN: 0687287529 Publisher: Abingdon Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead, Donald W. Sherburne ISBN: 0226752933 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1981 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Philosophers Speak of God by Charles Hartshorne, William L. Reese ISBN: 1573928151 Publisher: Humanity Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.00 |
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