Divine Decision: A Process Doctrine of Election

by Donna Bowman

Donna Bowman utilizes the work of process thinker Alfred North Whitehead to develop a doctrine of election that dialogues with the view of Reformed theologian Karl Barth. Taking seriously Barth's contention that election is the best of all words that can be spoken about God, Bowman reinterprets Whitehead's description of God's provision of the initial aim to each entity as the central cosmological and theological fact of universal election. By combining...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664224946
• ISBN13: 9780664224943
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"