From Theodicy and Practical Theology, The University of Wales, Trinity Saint David. PhD, thesis.
Whitehead explains that ‘It is not true that God is on all respects infinite.’ Whitehead (1926: 153). His Process theology is a philosophical approach that does not rely on any kind of divine revelation.Viney (2008: 1). Instead it relies on a process of change over time as a theory of metaphysics. Viney (2008: 1). God’s actual concrete nature is responsive and influenced by the processes that take in the world, and therefore God is limited.
Whitehead claims that if God was infinite in all ways this would make him as infinitely evil as he is good. I doubt logically and reasonably that an infinitely holy and good God could at the same time be infinitely evil and so I can grant Whitehead half a point here. However, God could still be infinite completely in nature and willingly allow evil to exist within his creation, which shall be discussed particularly in Chapter Three as a Reformed view. I definitely agree with Whitehead that an infinitely good and evil God would be a God of nothingness. Whitehead (1926: 153). I doubt this being could logically exist.
July 21, 2017
What exists as necessary is good.
God exists as necessary.
Therefore, God is good.
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Evil, if it exists at all, it is a corruption of the good. For God to be proposed as infinitely good and infinitely evil, would mean that the infinite evil is not defined correctly as evil.
VINEY, DAVID (2008) ‘Process Theism’, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Palo Alto, California, Stanford University.
WHITEHEAD, ALFRED NORTH (1926) Religion in the Making, New York, The MacMillan Company.
WHITEHEAD, ALFRED NORTH (1927-1929)(1957) Process and Reality, New York, The Free Press/MacMillan Publishing Company, Incorporated.
WHITEHEAD, ALFRED NORTH (1967)(1986) ‘Adventures of Ideas’, in Forest Wood JR., Whiteheadian Thought as a Basis for a Philosophy of Religion, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, University Press of America, Inc. http://www.religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=2736&C=2479
