Breaking News: Process Theologian Believes in God!

At HBC, Tripp has posted some sweetness from living legend, process theologian John Cobb.  If you harbor misconceptions about process theology, take seven minutes and read this post (plus, as an added bonus, Cobb accurately diagnoses the problem with mainline Christianity today):

First, we believe that we are speaking of a real God. For two centuries, now, this has become increasingly difficult, and increasingly rare, in academic and intellectual contexts. Down through the eighteenth century, the question of God’s reality was assumed to be a metaphysical one. Either the word “God” referred to a reality independent of human thought, language, and belief, or else there was in fact no reference. If one adopted the latter position, one was an atheist. But atheism was rare in European society in those centuries. Although much about God could be known, many thought, only by revelation, the existence of God was evident to reason. [READ THE REST]