Moses, Gregory J. “Process Relational Thought and God. Beyond the bastard dualisms: How to do better than Radical Orthodoxy. Process Thought and East Asian Culture: Process Theology, (May 2004): 95-108. [Conference paper presented at The 5th International Whitehead Conference] Seoul, South Korea, May 28. 2004.

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to re-construe what’s normally thought of as a form of ‘naturalistic’ theism in a new frame, beyond the nature-supernature binary altogether and the other binaries which depend on this. It taps into research done in the last thirty years of last century into the early stages in the construction of modernity, relying particularly on the work of Hans Blumenberg, Louis Dupre (emeritus professor of philosophy of religion from Yale), the French author Marcel Gauchet and the theological movement which calls itself Radical Orthodoxy. The paper contents that Process Relational Theology can do at least as good a job as Radical Orthodoxy in offering a way through the thicket beyond the binaries, and arguably a better one, rather more in touch with what has happened since medieval times. But it also argues that we might do well to make a few amendments to make it even better.

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