You commonly hear people say, “Trust the process.” It is now normal for people to think of things in the way of a process. Process is usually looked at as something good. It is believed that processes evolve people and all other creation. People have even applied the idea of process to God. Process Theology uses the idea of process and intertwines it with ideas of God and even evil. This philosophy or theology tries to explain God and evil through a more modern take from ideas of Darwinian biology and Einstein’s physics. God is known in the Process theology as everlasting, creative, and even the mastermind behind process. At the same time, God is also viewed as a dependent, changing, non-masculine, unemotional, and even temporal. God and
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109). This is a theology takes an approach that incorporates common societal thinking and teachings. By including aspects from Darwinism biology or Einstein’s physics it attracts a whole different group of people. A lot of theologies beliefs don’t have room to claim both as truths, which can turn people away from God. This theology allows people to choose to believe in God. Some people are not willing to compromise there believes such as evolution, but with this theology it allows people to not have to result in …show more content…
Free will is taken to the most serious degree in this theodicy. God is not cohesive, but persuasive to his creation. In this theology you see God giving more limitation to himself than other theologies. David Griffin would say it is because, “ If God is the supreme but never the only embodiment of creativity, then God never has a monopoly on power” (Pg. 122). When God is not forcing his creation to choose him it shows his genuine love for his people. This depiction of God not forcing free will is also a positive aspect for feminist. Feminists do not agree nor appreciate the masculine, submission hungry God that can sometimes be pictures. The complete freedom to choose God can be viewed as a positive in eyes of many diverse
109). This is a theology takes an approach that incorporates common societal thinking and teachings. By including aspects from Darwinism biology or Einstein’s physics it attracts a whole different group of people. A lot of theologies beliefs don’t have room to claim both as truths, which can turn people away from God. This theology allows people to choose to believe in God. Some people are not willing to compromise there believes such as evolution, but with this theology it allows people to not have to result in …show more content…
Free will is taken to the most serious degree in this theodicy. God is not cohesive, but persuasive to his creation. In this theology you see God giving more limitation to himself than other theologies. David Griffin would say it is because, “ If God is the supreme but never the only embodiment of creativity, then God never has a monopoly on power” (Pg. 122). When God is not forcing his creation to choose him it shows his genuine love for his people. This depiction of God not forcing free will is also a positive aspect for feminist. Feminists do not agree nor appreciate the masculine, submission hungry God that can sometimes be pictures. The complete freedom to choose God can be viewed as a positive in eyes of many diverse