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Hi Jay,
Thank you for such a detailed response! It does make things a lot clearer, and I agree that thinking of Gd as whole (perhaps containing a whole spectrum connecting primordial and consequent?) makes all of this seem a little less mushy. After all, we too have both physical and mental poles which inform one another and work in concert without a clear division, and we too have both an eternal nature retained within Gd and a temporal and ever-changing physical nature, which work in perfect concert while we are ‘alive.’ Thus, it makes perfect sense to me that this would be the case for Gd as well.

Bill,
Thank you for bringing these quotes to the fore. It can be challenging to get through all of the material, and I am happy to have it lifted before me in this way. They’re beautiful, and beautifully aligned with my own theology, informed as it has been by process thought as filtered through third and fourth generation process theologians.

Barrett- it is not an exaggeration for me to say that Process saved my theism, and my faith. Granted, my faith shifted to Judaism as I listened to R’Brad Artson – the Christian version of Jesus, even in Process, didn’t really work for me, but his work didn’t require Jesus, of course! I ended up converting in my last year of divinity school, my master’s constructive theology project focused on theology to undergird spiritual guidance for the “spiritual but not religious” or agnostics among us. R’Artson, alongside Monica Coleman and Catherine Keller (also process thinkers) were my primary textual conversation partners! Anyway, that’s all to say Process God saves in more ways than one! 🙂