Alfred Whitehead (1861-1947)

Major work

•           Process and Reality

Importance

•          Gave philosophical foundation for process theology

•          Reality is not static but a process

•          Reality built on four concepts: actual occasions, eternal objects, God, and creativity

•          God and the world are interdependent

•          God suffers with the world

•          God knows the future only as a possibility, not actuality

•          Was a mathematician

•          Called his approach “philosophy of organism”