{"id":4934,"date":"2012-02-10T13:09:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T19:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/?p=4934"},"modified":"2015-03-13T16:52:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T21:52:43","slug":"process-theology-not-quite-convinced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/2012\/02\/10\/process-theology-not-quite-convinced\/","title":{"rendered":"Process Theology: Not (Quite) Convinced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Danielle Shroyer<\/a> leads the Emergent Village council, and was present at the Emergent Village Theological Conversation last week. She went with an open mind toward process theology<\/a>, and she left as a fan, if not a convert:<\/p>\n

On the plane ride home, I mentioned on Twitter that my conclusion for now is that I\u2019m a process thinker but not a process theologian. Here\u2019s what I mean. After the first day and a half of the conference, I was trying to sort out what it was that wasn\u2019t sticking for me. If I agree with the content, for the most part, what seems out of place? I think it\u2019s the fact that process began as a philosophy<\/a>, not a theology. And you can tell the difference. <\/strong>That\u2019s not meant to be a judgmental statement; it\u2019s meant to be a clarifying one. Because a whole host of questions arise when I consider process theology. We seemed to bat around a number of them, with no real conclusion, such as Christology and eschatology. (Granted, it\u2019s a lot to cover in a few hours.) \u00a0Mostly, my inner nerd theologian was dogged by questions about how they could prove this or that by the narrative of Scripture or the tradition of the Church or where and how, exactly, process flows out of the history of Christian thought. Honestly, I felt that much of what was spoken as process theology could not be discerned as much more than a hunch or a hope, or maybe both.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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