| Changing Views of Nature | Greek Philosophy | Metaphysics | Christian Process Theology | The Problem of Evil and Suffering |
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What is Twentieth-Century?
Characteristics include evolutionary, multi-leveled, and community.
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Who is Parmenides?
Philosopher who argued truth to be one, eternal, and timeless.
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What is process? OR What is becoming?
The starting point of process philosophy.
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What is Christian Process Theology?
Used in reformulating specifically Christian beliefs in the contemporary world.
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What is objective immortality?
Process thinkers defend immortality in one of two forms. This form of immortality involves our participation in God’s consequent nature, whereby God’s life is permanently enriched.
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What is Medieval?
Characteristics include fixed order, dualistic (spirit/matter), and kingdom.
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Who is Heraclitus?
Philosopher who argued for that all things constantly change.
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What is interconnected? Entities in their own rights.
Whitehead emphasized that events are…
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What is the human sphere?
Where God depends on the free responses of individuals and communities.
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What is moral growth?
Many modern Christian theodicies have asserted God’s voluntary self-limitation in order to effect the three goals of human freedom, laws of nature, and _____
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What is Newtonian?
Characteristics include deterministic, atomistic, and dualistic (mind/body).
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What is Duality?
Whitehead argues, along with Heraclitus, against this paradigm.
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What is it is too selective and abstract?
Whitehead’s critique of science.
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What is in diverse ways?
How people respond to God's calls.
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What is karma?
According to this impersonal law of karma, all souls are reborn (reincarnated) in human or animal forms according to actions and deeds in previous lives.
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