Process Theology: Experiential Unity

What is Process Theology? Process Theology an Introductory Exposition states that Process Theology concerns topic about process but does not suggest that everything is undergoing a process. This is to integrate Whitehead’s claim that the “temporal process” engages into the conversation about changing of entities. In other words, there are events that contain some reality of “experiential unity.” The paper will discuss who and, in what way the unity is part of a process and integrate Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki’s model about the process theology as mentioned in the appendix section of God, Christ, Church.
How do I understand this? : Using a question as an example from my Bioethics class, “Why do you want to be a parent?,” I will point to the …show more content…
How far was my response Christian and ethical, I am not sure, but in my opinion, it is appropriate. My response to his question included the truth about marriage, love and the word “sex” having lost its meaning in the western world. Using my Pakistani context, I stated that couples did not share intimacy before marriage and therefore, the longing and desire to share the intimacy is usually high when couples get married. Pointing to the relationship in a married life, the bond and relationship that a couple shares, along with both families of the husband and wife is precious. The fetus is not considered a property, rather the most valuable life that needs to be protected, and not to have the authority to trespass their boundary of family life and love by any means. In other words, those relationships that are tied to each other emerge from the marriage; however, they are undergoing a process through the ongoing activities and circumstances, and events. Individually, these are called the actual occasion. In addition, the marriage is stable, it is not changing, it is helping the relations in the families to be either strengthened or weakened, depending on the …show more content…
Contemplating on the difference of the birth of a child in an artificial womb and the natural birth of a child, I was fascinated to note that the whole conversation went back to the topic of marriage, its importance and value. The act of intimacy to have a child is sacred, because it bears witness to how two people are willing to make a decision and then see its accomplishment. The child does not belong to a mother alone because she bore him/her, but to the couple, because they had the child together. Furthermore, the love of a husband gives a woman confidence that she has done well, as a wife and then as a mother. Proverbs 31 is very applicable in this context. This points to the concrescence because the couple has not only gone through a dating/courting experience leading to a marriage, and decisions of having or not having a child (for a certain time). On the contrary, the couple might not been married and just been living together. Though they did want to have a child, they discovered they were going to have a child and decided not to abort the child, rather giving the child to an organization that could raise the child. On a separate note, as the author points out the involvement of the past events, this points to the author’s claim that “it prehends all the previous