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.
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- Bibliography: p. [186]-191
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- 192
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- 22
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- Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 088920070 9780889205536
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- B1674.W354
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- W55 1979eb
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- 1 electronic text (xiv, 200 p.)
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Contents 14
- Preface 6
- Acknowledgements 12
- Abbreviations 16
- Part 1 The Search for Categories of Interpretation 18
- Chapter I. The Legacy of the Sixties 19
- Chapter II. The Variety of Whitehead's Approaches to Reality: The Approach through Science 30
- Chapter III. The Variety of Whitehead's Approaches to Reality: His Investigation of Religious Experience and Expression 36
- Chapter IV. The Variety of Whitehead's Approaches to Reality: Philosophical Investigations and the Selection of a Cosmological Framework 47
- Chapter V. Whitehead's Metaphysical System 58
- Chapter VI. Analysis of the Concept of God in Process and Reality 70
- Chapter VII. Some Appraisals of Whitehead's Cosmology 88
- Part 2 Research and Discovery 102
- Chapter VIII. The Need for a Fresh Appeal to the Philosophical, Historical and Theological Foundations 103
- Chapter IX. Analysis of the Tradition 122
- Chapter X. Problems in the Metaphysical Interpretation of the Tradition: The Fourth-Century Climate of Opinion and Whitehead 139
- Chapter XI. The Formulation of the Christian Doctrine of the Trinity: Athanasius, the Nicaean Formula and Whitehead 157
- Chapter XII. 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 188
- Bibliography 202
- Index 210
- A 211
- B 211
- C 211
- D 212
- E 212
- F 212
- G 213
- H 213
- I 213
- J 214
- K 214
- L 214
- M 214
- N 214
- O 215
- P 215
- R 215
- S 216
- T 216
- U 216
- V 216
- W 216
- Z 217
