Transforming Process Theism Book

Ford (philosophy, Old Dominion U.) finds a problem in process theism, which developed from suggestions by Whitehead and now dominates discussions of philosophical and natural theology in Europe and America: because only past or objectified determinate events can influence present experiences, and because God, as conceived by Whitehead, is never fully determinate or objectifiable as a past event, it is difficult to see how this divine persuasive power can have any influence on the present as a source of creativity and genuinely new possibilities for enactment. He traces the development back to Whitehead's thought and detects another kind of causal influence that does not require objectification. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR