Charles Hartshorne
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Charles Hartshorne was an American philosopher and theologian best known for developing process philosophy and process theology, emphasizing a dynamic, relational concept of God and reality.
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| instanceOf |
American philosopher
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American theologian → person → philosopher → theologian → |
| academicDegree |
PhD in philosophy
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| almaMater |
Harvard University
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Haverford College → |
| birthDate |
1897-06-05
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| birthPlace |
Kittanning, Pennsylvania, United States
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| century |
20th century
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| deathDate |
2000-10-09
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| deathPlace |
Austin, Texas, United States
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| employer |
Emory University
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University of Chicago → University of Texas at Austin → |
| field |
logic
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metaphysics → philosophy → philosophy of religion → theology → |
| influenced |
philosophy of religion in the 20th century
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process theologians → |
| influencedBy |
Alfred North Whitehead
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Aristotle → Charles Sanders Peirce → G. W. F. Hegel → Plato → Thomas Aquinas → |
| knownFor |
defense of panentheism
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developing process philosophy → developing process theology → modal proof of the existence of God → neoclassical theism → theory of dipolar theism → |
| lifespan |
1897–2000
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| mainInterest |
aesthetics
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ethics → metaphysics of becoming → ontology → philosophy of God → |
| movement |
process philosophy
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process theology → |
| name |
Charles Hartshorne
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| nationality |
United States
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| notableWork |
A Natural Theology for Our Time
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Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method → Insights and Oversights of Great Thinkers → Man’s Vision of God and the Logic of Theism → Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes → Reality as Social Process → The Divine Relativity → |
| philosophicalSchool |
American pragmatism
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process philosophy → |
| position |
professor of philosophy
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professor of theology → |
| religion |
Christianity
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| viewOnEvil |
interpreted the problem of evil within a process theistic framework
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| viewOnFreedom |
defended creaturely freedom and indeterminism
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| viewOnGod |
advocated panentheism
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affirmed a dipolar God with both changing and unchanging aspects → rejected classical divine immutability → |
| viewOnReality |
held that reality is fundamentally processual and relational
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Referenced by (2)
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Alfred North Whitehead
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influenced |
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Charles Hartshorne
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name |