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Relational Creativity in the Cosmology of Alfred North Whitehead327 views
Author
Hollins, Hunter, Religious Studies - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia0009-0000-4558-989X
Advisors
Jones, Paul, University of Virginia
Warren, Heather, University of Virginia
Abstract
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) constructed and refined an elaborate cosmology describing the creative nature of God, reality, and the relationship between God and the world while living through the ever-changing vistas presented by science and mathematics during the second half of the nineteenth century. By examining the relational creativity in community, continuum, and dipolar relations as presented in the life and work of Whitehead, this paper illustrates the continued value of Whitehead’s work. Not only the value of his ideas, but also the value of the process, of faith seeking understanding, and the ever-creative process of becoming.
Degree
MA (Master of Arts)
Keywords
Alfred North Whitehead; Process and Reality; Community; Continuum; Dipolar; Creativity; God
Hollins, Hunter. Relational Creativity in the Cosmology of Alfred North Whitehead. University of Virginia, Religious Studies - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, MA (Master of Arts), 2024-04-29, https://doi.org/10.18130/dzx9-0405.