Lucas, George R., Jr.  "'The Seventh Seal': On the Fate of Whitehead's Proposed Rehabilitation."  Process Studies 25 (1996): 104-16.

Abstract

Using the imagery of Ingmar Bergman's apocalyptic film of this title, the author argues that scholars of Whitehead's work and followers of process philosophy generally have, like Bergman's medieval knight, a "god obsession" that blinds them to the threat of the pending historical oblivion of their other philosophical interests.  Comparing Whitehead to Aristotle, the author argues that theology played a relatively minor role in his cosmology; comparing contemporary Whiteheadians to Thomists, the author argues that these subsequent followers have distorted or lost the broad cosmological perspective that originally made Whitehead's work interesting.  In particular, discussing critical reception of his 1989 book, "The Rehabilitation of Whitehead", the author calls attention to numerous contemporary themes in analytic and continental philosophy to which Whitehead's own thought makes substantial, original, plausible and construction contributions.  [Abstract from The Philosopher's Index]