process theology

American  

noun

1. a form of theology that emphasizes the close relation of human beings, nature, and God.

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Etymology

Origin of process theology

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

Combining a gentle scepticism with sympathy for theological yearnings, the author touches on those modern-science-approved Stoics, Spinoza, William James, Don Cupitt, "process theology", game theory, the techno-eschatology of the "singularity", and "apophatic theology", which says you can't talk about God at all – in our day, Vernon comments wryly, "such theology has, arguably, become unfashionable and even a source of annoyance".

From The Guardian

These radical notions dovetail with a spiritual movement known as process theology, whose proponents argue that God evolves along with man.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, L�on offers an informal post-Freudian, post-Buchenwald process theology that assumes man can judge God's acts and know them evil, but asserts that God is both pitiable and believable precisely because he, like man, is not timeless, but a changeable part of a long and painful evolution.

From Time Magazine Archive

So believes the small band of U.S. thinkers who are today developing "process theology."

From Time Magazine Archive

Now I discover from the proponents of process theology that I have been worshipping a process.

From Time Magazine Archive