Intro to Process Theology

Intro to Process Theology

Science and Religion

Evil and Suffering

Jesus and Creative Transformation

Prayer (and Pluralism)

Do you pray? Why do you

pray? How do you

expect God to respond to your

prayers?

God World

God's Power in Process Theology

Omnipotent Almighty

All-powerful

Omnipresent Persuasive Love-power

God World

Shared Power in Process Theology

Omnipresent Persuasive Love-power

Power of being Power to affect Power to choose Power to love

Interdependence

World

God

Supernaturalism

Why didn't God answer my prayer?

God answers prayers the way God wants to,

but it may not be what you want.

In God's Presence

Prayer is...

Prayers is the act of bringing our moment-by-moment connectedness to God into our consciousness

Prayer is opening ourselves to God's own creative energy and offering back to God the gift of ourselves

Prayer is joining with God in willing the well-being of ourselves, friends, enemies...the whole world

Prayer in ProcessPrayer changes us,

the world, and God.

God works with the world as it is in

order to bring it to where it can be.

The real prayer is the one who prays.

"Prayer is a partnership with

God, not a manipulation of

God." -MS

"Prayer is prompted by God and released to God." -MS

Mortality and healing

Prayer cannot eliminate our mortality.

Not-yet-irreversible illness

Irreversible illnessVs.

Healing is always possible.

Pray

You?

Process theology sees the universe as creative,

interrelational, dynamic, and open to the future. In process theology, God is relational,

present in every moment of our lives and in all entities and levels of being. The world is

interconnected, in effect a giant ecosystem where what harms or

blesses one, harms or blesses all.

April-May Pluralism

Trinity

Sin and Forgiveness

Evolution