Overview

This 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: God is absolutely perfect and therefore unchangeable 2.omnipotenc 3.omniscienc 4.God's unsympathetic goodness, 5.immortality as a career after death, and 6.revelationble 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 option for religious belief not heretofore available to lay people.

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Author:   Charles Hartshorne
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.200kg
ISBN:  

9780873957717

ISBN 10:   0873957717
Pages:   158
Publication Date:   30 June 1984
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface 1. Six Common Mistakes about God The Mistakes Briefly Presented What Went Wrong in Classical Theism Two Meanings of ""God is Perfect and Unchanging"" Two Meanings of ""All-Powerful"" Two Meanings of ""All-Knowing"" God's Love as Divine Sympathy, Feeling of Others' Feelings Two Meanings of ""Immortality"" Revelation, ""Infallible"" as from God, ""Fallible"" as Humanly Received The Principle of Dual Transcendence 2. The Physical and Spiritual Materialism and Dualism in Greek and Medieval Thought Plato's World Soul: The Mind-Body Analogy for God Male Bias in Theology Creation from Nothing, Magic, and the Tyrant Conception of God Mind or Soul as Creative of Its Body Psychicalism and the Universality of Love 3. Creation through Evolution Evolution and Belief in God Evolution, Chance, and Natural Law Darwin's Mistake Chance, Freedom, and the Tyrant Idea of God God Takes Chances with Free Creatures The Religious Opposition to Evolution God ""Makes Things Make Themselves"" Creation Neither Out of Nothing Nor Out of Matter Value and Sympathy as the Keys to Power: The Final Mystery Psychicalism and Evolution The Perils of a High Level of Mind and Freedom An Ornithologist who Opposed Evolution 4. Equal Love for Self and Other, All-Love for the All-Loving The Moral Argument against Heaven and Hell Abortion and the Nonabsoluteness of Personal Identity Identity, Nonidentity, and the Primacy of Love Self-identity as Attribute of God The Present Condition of Humankind A Requirement for Ethical Judgments Religion and Philosophy Is God Selfish? Divine Love as the Meaning of Life Why There is Human Wickedness Nuclear Arms God and the Universe Once More Index of Persons Subject Index

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Hartshorne speaks with not just conviction, but passion. He cares, and that caring comes through loud and clear. By and large Hartshorne is a very abstract thinker, but this book has a very concrete concern with practical issues of importance to all thinking persons-abortion, environment, love, creationism and fundamentalism as negative forces in our society, nuclear arms, how to read the Bible, birds and animals in their relation to humans, etc. - Donald W. Sherburne

"""Hartshorne speaks with not just conviction, but passion. He cares, and that caring comes through loud and clear. By and large Hartshorne is a very abstract thinker, but this book has a very concrete concern with practical issues of importance to all thinking persons-abortion, environment, love, creationism and fundamentalism as negative forces in our society, nuclear arms, how to read the Bible, birds and animals in their relation to humans, etc. - Donald W. Sherburne"

Author Information

Charles Hartshorne is Ashbel Smith Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Creativity in American Philosophy, Insights and Oversights of Great Thinkers, Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes, and Wisdom as Moderation all published by SUNY Press.

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