Shaw, Marvin C. Nature's Grace: Essays on H. N. Wieman's Finite Theism. New York: Peter Lang, 1995.
Abstract
Henry Nelson Wieman (1884-1975) was the leading
member of the group of religious naturalists associated with the
University of Chicago. Beginning in the Twenties, members of this group
worked out the religious implications of a wholly naturalistic view of
reality. With striking originality, Wieman transformed the influence of
John Dewey and Alfred North Whitehead into his "naturalistic theism,"
the vision of the divine as an immanent and finite creativity at work
within the evolving universe. These critical essays reveal the problems
in Wieman's quest for a naturalistic interpretation of the reality of
God.