Introduction to process theology

Abstract

This section of the book collects four articles that have taken their inspiration for contemporary models of God and ultimate reality from process theology. A good choice! I know of no other elaborate theological pattern of thought—throughout history or currently—that would allow us not only to express a distinct group of models of God and ultimate reality at once, but even more to harbor such a variety of models of both the divine and the ultimate. On the basis of its declared variability of construction and differentiation of possibly employed methods, but mostly because of its ability to generate always new conceptions in varying contexts, process theology may be one of the very few contemporary alternatives in (philosophical) theology that escapes the threat of being ossified by any particular dogmatic tradition within any given religion with which it might engage.