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Is there More to God than
Openness and Relationality?
Might we love God in her depth and solitude, too?
notes on a comment by Roland Faber
Theologians influenced by Whitehead often emphasize the loving side of God: that side of God that supplies fresh possibilities (initial aims) to living beings for their own well-being, and that side of God which "feels the feelings" of all living beings with sympathy and tenderness as a divine companion. They emphasize God "for us."
But there is, for Whitehead, a side of God which is indifferent to us and thus not "for us." This is part of what Whitehead calls God's primordial nature. It is unmoved by love for this being or that being. It is concerned only with its own immediate satisfaction as that can be enriched by each actual occasion as it arises. In an essay called (Nothing but) Mystery, Roland Faber describes it this way, quoting Whitehead:
But there is, for Whitehead, a side of God which is indifferent to us and thus not "for us." This is part of what Whitehead calls God's primordial nature. It is unmoved by love for this being or that being. It is concerned only with its own immediate satisfaction as that can be enriched by each actual occasion as it arises. In an essay called (Nothing but) Mystery, Roland Faber describes it this way, quoting Whitehead: