Process Theology

    Cards (4)

    • Griffin rejects God as creator
      Believes in ex materia. Based on a mistranslation of the text 'the earth being without form and void'. Whereas the traditional version is 'earth was without form and void
    • What does the mistranslated text mean according to Griffin?
      - the universe was uncreated and eternal
      - there was primitive unformed matter that is chaos
      - God was always there
      - God persuaded matter into a state of greater order and complexity, did not control it
    • What is Panentheism?
      God and the universe are intertwined
    • Belief that God is not omnipotent
      - god cannot intervene in the world
      - god cannot speak or reveal his will to people
      - god cannot perform miracles
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