Whitehead and God : prolegomena to theological reconstruction / Laurence F. Wilmot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilmot, Laurence F., 1907-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947--Contributions in theology.

Whitehead, Alfred North.

God--History of doctrines--20th century.

God.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1979.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is intended as a contribution towards the renewal of theological discourse in the final quarter of the twentieth century. It presents the findings from personal research into the development of the concept of God in the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, and the application of his conceptual tools in a re-examination of the writings of some fourth-century Christian theologians in their efforts to provide answers to the problems posed for the Church by Arianism. The research was prompted by Whitehead’s recommendations addressed to theologians in Adventures of Ideas.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

The Search for Categories of Interpretation

The Legacy of the Sixties

The Variety of Whitehead's Approaches to Reality: The Approach through Science

The Variety of Whitehead’s Approaches to Reality: His Investigation of Religious Experience and Expression

The Variety of Whitehead’s Approaches to Reality: Philosophical Investigations and the Selection of a Cosmological Framework

Whitehead’s Metaphysical System

Analysis of the Concept of God in Process and Reality

Some Appraisals of Whitehead’s Cosmology

Research and Discovery

The Need for a Fresh Appeal to the Philosophical, Historical and Theological Foundations

Analysis of the Tradition

Problems in the Metaphysical Interpretation of the Tradition: The Fourth-Century Climate of Opinion and Whitehead

The Formulation of the Christian Doctrine of the Trinity: Athanasius, the Nicaean Formula and Whitehead

The Completion of Whitehead’s Ideas in the Christian Understanding of God, and the Re-formulation of the Cosmological Framework as the Basis for a Reconstruction in Theology

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliography: p. [186]-191 and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613811257

9781554586189

1554586186

9781282233515

1282233513

9780889205536

0889205531

OCLC:

243566068