process

When he thinks of the divine, it is not as some grand logician but as the poet of the world. God does not make the world but makes something of the world, allowing us to find or create meaning in the creative onrush of reality despite the wreckage of history. God leaves open the possibility of reconciliation even if it in fact never fully arrives.... See more

To address both the frame problem and the fine-tuning conundrum, I propose that the continuum of possibilities is itself structured by what we may as well call a divine act. This is not the notion of God as an external watchmaker who meticulously designs each actual outcome. Rather, I draw on Whitehead’s process philosophy to argue that the divine... See more

The process conception of God offers both a source of refreshment and a sense of relevant novelty, as well as a sense of companionship, because this is not a God that exists outside the world. This is a God who suffers with the world, as much subject as object, as much a lack as a presence. I do think there is a radical negativity in this vision in... See more