Process Thought

Process Thought is a systematic approach to the world, to life, and to humanity that seeks to integrate what we know and what we feel into a single united narrative of interrelationship and becoming. Building upon the insight that the world is dynamic and interrelated, Process Thought articulates that every creature exists in relationship to each other and to all creation, and that everything is always becoming and self-determining within the parameters of what has gone before and what is being determined by the rest of existence.

Process Thought is a response to the challenge posed by the dynamic and interrelated nature of reality — making sense of what exists, given our knowledge of relativity theory, quantum physics, cosmology, evolutionary biology, cognitive science and neurology, psychology, history, religion, and literature.

Process Theology

Within Process Philosophy, clergy and philosophical theologians have applied these insights to the questions raised by religion, and in Process Theology they advanced tremendous possibilities for a faithfulness that is honest, open, spiritually rich, and ethically engaged in the world. Rather than enforcing a strict division of natural and supernatural, Process Theology affirms that we live in a universe that is a single integrated reality. Everything is in dynamic relationship with everything else.

God & Us Together

God is not timeless and separate from creation. God is the One who offers us the best possible options for our own future and who lures us to attain the divine goals of maximal relationship, engagement, love, compassion, and justice. God uses persuasive, persistent power to allow us to intuit the optimal choice for each of us and empowers us to be able to make that choice, should we so choose. And, God works in and through creation to respond affirmatively to the divine lure uniquely appropriate to it at that precise moment. God does not break the rules, but works to create a cosmos in which flourishing is possible.

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God of Becoming and Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson