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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Predicate Object
instanceOf American philosopher
American theologian
person
philosopher
theologian
academicDegree PhD in philosophy
almaMater Harvard University
Haverford College
birthDate 1897-06-05
birthPlace Kittanning, Pennsylvania, United States
century 20th century
deathDate 2000-10-09
deathPlace Austin, Texas, United States
employer Emory University
University of Chicago
University of Texas at Austin
field logic
metaphysics
philosophy
philosophy of religion
theology
influenced philosophy of religion in the 20th century
process theologians
influencedBy Alfred North Whitehead
Aristotle
Charles Sanders Peirce
G. W. F. Hegel
Plato
Thomas Aquinas
knownFor defense of panentheism
developing process philosophy
developing process theology
modal proof of the existence of God
neoclassical theism
theory of dipolar theism
lifespan 1897–2000
mainInterest aesthetics
ethics
metaphysics of becoming
ontology
philosophy of God
movement process philosophy
process theology
name Charles Hartshorne
nationality United States
notableWork A Natural Theology for Our Time
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
process philosophy
position professor of philosophy
professor of theology
religion Christianity
viewOnEvil interpreted the problem of evil within a process theistic framework
viewOnFreedom defended creaturely freedom and indeterminism
viewOnGod advocated panentheism
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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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Alfred North Whitehead
influenced
Charles Hartshorne
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