Ford, Lewis S.  "A Response to Neville's Creativity and God."  Process Studies 10, nos. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 1980): 105-9.  [In "Three Responses to Neville's Creativity and God," Charles Hartshorne, John B. Cobb, Jr. and Lewis S. Ford, Process Studies 10, nos. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 1980): 93-109.]

Abstract

Whitehead dissociates God from creativity, which he conceives as the power exercised by each actuality to create itself.  I list seven advantages of this approach, including its explanatory power to explain freedom and evil.  However, the identification of God and creativity, championed by Neville, also has its advantages, resolving the issue of two ultimates which becomes a serious problem for monotheists.  I propose a way of obtaining the advantages of both alternatives by introducing some temporal distinctions.  God is identified with the whole of future creativity, while yet being entirely distinct from the present creativity we exercise in the world. [Abstract from The Philosopher's Index]