Process Theology

• 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