God of Becoming and Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology

At the heart of Jewish doing is the conviction that there is a unifying Oneness that undergirds everything and makes openness possible.

All true knowing is relational and dynamic, for us and for God.

As the philosopher Franz Rosenzweig reminds us, “Love brings to life whatever is dead around us.”

Charles Hartshorne,

our freedom to make poor choices also means that we inflict harm on ourselves when we do not muster the strength and vision to heed the divine lure, what Hans Jonas describes as “the mutedly insistent appeal of [God’s] unfulfilled goal.” Again

Evil and suffering are not intriguing theological puzzles; they are existential goads, calling us to repair the world.

Through Jewish law, itself dynamic and evolving, Jews come together to integrate the raw and nonverbal aspects of universal revelation with the emerging words and positions of special revelation that can, in turn, radiate holiness and purpose back into our lives, our communities, our world.

When we do what we were created to do, we shall rejoice and be glad.

We know what the initial aim is. We know it intuitively because we prehend it, Whitehead’s term for immediate, internal intuition. We do not have to be told; we are each connected to all and to the creative-responsive love that God offers. So we intuit the lure from the inside.