Louisville Process Theology Network

God Relates Afresh to Every Event

“A Christian may be allowed to say that, if ever there were a philosophy which took seriously the kind of portrayal of God in relation to his world which we find in the biblical record,

it is the philosophy of process.

But just as in the biblical record God remains God throughout the story,

not in spite of but precisely because of his capacity for relating himself afresh to every exigence, every human action,

every event in the natural order and in the historical sequence;

so in process-thought God remains God,

forever "creating" new possibilities and forever employing the world’s occasions

for the fulfillment of his purpose…….

God is faithful, the Bible tells us…..

but God is also infinitely related to and influenced by the world….”

From “Process Thought and Christian Faith” by Norman Pittenger, Chapter 2