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God And Processes

Posted on:2013-02-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q N MengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330374954826Subject:Religious Studies
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) was a high-profile famous Britishmathematician and philosopher of the20th century. His Process Theology is awonderful part in the contribution of his theory and influences de eply. In his eyes,God is love and this love is neither a power nor passive and not illusory.Whitehead accounted that God existed in the real world to participate in thegeneration of the real world, and interdependent with the real world. Religion asunderstood by Whitehead has a unique which essence is the heteromorphism ofsomething. Whitehead believed that the performance of religious developmentwas a process, experiencing the four stages, ceremony, emo tion, faith andrationality. In the relationship between religion and science, Whiteheadconsidered that these two fields are additions, differences and correction, so theycan reconcile. Whitehead's Process Theology had a wide influence in thetheological field and also the origin of the Constructive Po stmodernism, while ithas a positive reference to the modernization developing China.From the perspective of theology, Whitehead live in an era as well as contemporaryas the background to explore the context core idea impact of the development ofWhitehead's Process Theology has a significant academic value.
Keywords/Search Tags:Whitehead, Process theology, The viewpoint of God, Religion
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