Language about God in Whitehead’s Philosophy: Dissimilarities and Similarities between Aquinas and Whitehead

The way Whitehead speaks of God in his ‘philosophy of organism,’ and the evaluation thereof, is the subject of this article. The background of this issue is the position - broadly shared in theology, and here represented by Aquinas - that one should not speak ‘carelessly’ about God. Does Whitehead v...

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Main Author: Oomen, Palmyre 1948- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2015
In: Open theology
Year: 2015, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 342–353
Further subjects:B language about God
B Thomas Aquinas
B reversal of God’s poles
B Analogy
B God as one actual entity
B Alfred North Whitehead
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