Omnipotence and other Theological MistakesThis book presents Hartshorne's philosophical theology briefly, simply, and vividly. Throughout the centuries some of the world's most brilliant philosophers and theologians have held and perpetuated six beliefs that give the word God a meaning untrue to its import in sacred writings or in active religious devotion:1. God is absolutely perfect and therefore unchangeable,2. omnipotence,3. omniscience,4. God's unsympathetic goodness,5. immortality as a career after death,6. revelation as indefallible. Charles Hartshorne deals with these six theological mistakes from the standpoint of his process theology. Hartshorne says, "The book is unacademic in so far as I am capable of being that." Only a master like Hartshorne could present such sophisticated ideas so simply. This book offers an opinion for religious belief not heretofore available to lay people. |
Contents
Six Common Mistakes about God | 1 |
What Went Wrong in Classical Theism | 6 |
Two Meanings of AllPowerful | 10 |
Two Meanings of AllKnowing | 26 |
Gods Love as Divine Sympathy Feeling of Others | 27 |
Two Meanings of Immortality | 32 |
Revelation Infallible as from God Fallible as Humanly Received | 37 |
The Principle of Dual Transcendence | 44 |
Creation Neither Out of Nothing Nor Out of Matter | 75 |
The Final Mystery | 80 |
Psychicalism and Evolution | 83 |
The Perils of a High Level of Mind and Freedom | 85 |
An Ornithologist Who Opposed Evolution | 86 |
Equal Love for Self and Other AllLove for the AllLoving | 97 |
Abortion and the Nonabsoluteness of Personal Identity | 99 |
Identity Nonidentity and the Primacy of Love | 104 |
The Physical and the Spiritual | 51 |
The MindBody Analogy for God | 52 |
Male Bias in Theology | 56 |
Creation from Nothing Magic and the Tyrant Conception of God | 58 |
Mind or Soul as Creative of Its Body | 59 |
Psychicalism and the Universality of Love | 62 |
Creation through Evolution | 65 |
Evolution Chance and Natural Law | 67 |
Darwins Mistake | 68 |
Chance Freedom and the Tyrant Idea of God | 69 |
God Takes Chances with Free Creatures | 71 |
The Religious Opposition to Evolution | 72 |
God Makes Things Make Themselves | 73 |
SelfIdentity as Attribute of God | 109 |
The Present Condition of Humankind | 110 |
A Requirement for Ethical Judgments | 112 |
Religion and Philosophy | 113 |
Is God Selfish? | 119 |
Divine Love as the Meaning of Life | 121 |
Why There Is Human Wickedness | 126 |
Nuclear Arms | 131 |
God and the Universe Once More | 133 |
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