PROCESS THEODICY

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PROCESS THODICY

Process Theodicy was developed by David Griffin and was based on the ideas of A.N. WhiteheadA radical theory that suggests that God is NOT omnipotent. 

God did not create the universe because the universe is an uncreated process of which God himself is a part. God himself is part of the universe and is bound by natural laws. He suffers when evil occurs- he is the "fellow sufferer who understands"

Gods role in creation was to start off the evolutionary process that led to the development of humans... but god doesn't have total control and humans are free to ignore him. God cannot stop evil since he lacks the power to change the natural process, yet he bears some responsibility for it, having started off the evolutonary process knowing that he would not be able to control it. 

Griffin said "God is responsible for evil in the sense of having urged the

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