Clark H. Pinnock's Most Moved Mover

However, does process theology solve more issues than it creates? In order to answer this question, I will now present several outlooks on the issue from many different thinkers and , then, I will offer the argument that I find the most compelling. With this being said, relational theology is a contemporary understanding of theology that applies process thought (along with many others. For instance, relational theology requires a kind of panentheism that allows for participation in God by the creatures. By proposing an active God of this kind, a relational theologian is participating in a kind of thought that is very similar to standard process theology. This is because that panentheism requires a kind of unseen, unobserved presence of God

In his book Most Moved Mover, Clark H. Pinnock explains his reasoning for believing in an open God. That is, Pinnock argues for the existence of a God of Christianity that does not determine the future in order to allow for the free will of creatures. Pinnock gives several arguments for the viability of his position by utilizing several sections of scripture to advocate for a more authentic understanding of the God that is revealed via the Bible. Furthermore, Pinnock argues from commonly held understandings of the Doctrine of God by claiming that the problems associated with present doctrine are best solved via the conceptual picture of a God that limits His foreknowledge. By doing this, we, therefore, solve issues related to theodicy in some way and free-will in some ways. With this being said, Pinnock’s understanding of open theism supposes a dynamic God that only comes to know that which has already happened for his creation. Therefore, this kind of theology is, at least, very similar to process theology and is most likely a kind of process theology as understood by Whitehead and

In this book, Hick holds the position that God allows for certain kinds of suffering to allow for the possibility of overcoming for his creation.In other words, God allows for pain and suffering. Furthermore, the allowance of pain, according to Hick, allows for the process of “soul-making”. By the way of an indeterminate future and the possibility of pain, humans are left with the choice as to how much unnecessary suffering they are willing to restrict. By the way of making these allowances, however, Hick’s God seems to have limited Himself to not understanding the world in its entirety and, therefore, engaging with the world in a temporal way that is at least very conceptually similar to that of process