![]() ![]() Process theology is a way of understanding God and the universe found to be fruitful by some in Christian and Jewish faiths. Process philosophy was later developed into process theology by theologian/philosophers Charles Hartshorne, John B Cobb, Jr, and David Ray Griffin. He was invited to give the Gifford Lectures for 1927 at the University of Edinburgh, which resulted in the formidable but respected book Process and Reality. While there, Whitehead is perhaps most well known for conceiving process philosophy. In 1924 he moved to Harvard University for the last phase. The next phase of his career, at London from 1910 to 1924, dealt with philosophies of science and education. Whitehead did most of his work in mathematics while at Cambridge (UK) from 1884 to 1910. His best known work in mathematics is the Principia Mathematica which he wrote with Bertrand Russell. BiographyĪlfred North Whitehead was a British-American philosopher, physicist and mathematician who worked in logic, mathematics, philosophy of science and metaphysics. – God, too, is an actual entity, the concrescence of all acts of experiencing (prehending) into one everlasting act of experiencing (God’s Consequent Nature), and it is God’s conceptual prehensions of eternal objects that serve as lures (providing ‘subjective aims’ for finite actual occasions) and form the basis of order (God’s primordial Nature) in the cosmos. – This concrescence of an actual entity toward some one aim (final causality) is its process of becoming, distinguishable from its acts of inheritance from the past (efficient causality), and which gives rise to the process of temporal transition. – The completeness of an actual entity, like a human experience, lies in the integration (concrescence) of all the various acts of prehending into one act according to some one aim (the subjective aim). – The paradigm for an actual occasion is a complete, momentary human experience, exemplifying causal prehensions in its acts of remembering and sensing, and conceptual prehensions in its acts of exemplifying these above patterns (eternal objects). – Physical causality is the inheritance of patterned energy from the past along the lines of the Minkowski comes constructed for special relativity theory. – Enduring perceptual and physical objects, as well as scientific objects and minds, or souls, are repetitions of patterns inherited through a series of events, or occasions. – Time is differentiated from space by the acts of inheriting patterns from the past (later: ‘causal prehensions’). ![]()
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