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Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes

This book presents Hartshorne s philosophical theology briefly, simply, and vividly.

Throughout the centuries some of the world s most brilliant philosophers and theologians have held and perpetuated six beliefs that give the word God a meaning untrue to its import in sacred writings or in active religious devotion:

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God is absolutely perfect and therefore unchangeable

2.omnipotenc

3.omniscienc

4.God s unsympathetic goodness,

5.immortality as a career after death, and

6.revelationble

Charles Hartshorne deals with these six theological mistakes from the standpoint of his process theology.

Hartshorne says, The book is unacademic in so far as I am capable of being that. Only a master like Hartshorne could present such sophisticated ideas so simply. This book offers an option for religious belief not heretofore available to lay people."

Subject
philosophy
Themes
religion
Audience
adult

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