Process Pop-Up: The Hidden Sacred
Any decent mother comforts her distressed son by hugging him and speaking words the boy can hear clearly. Any caring father helps his injured daughter into his car and takes her to an emergency room where her injuries are treated. Yet when we are distressed or injured, few of us receive that kind of palpable care from God, and many sense God’s presence rarely if ever. Atheist philosopher J. L. Schellenberg uses analogies like these to construct logical proofs that a loving God cannot exist.
Process theology and open and relational theology have explanations for why God seems so hidden. In this process pop-up, Tim will consider the atheist challenge and the process and open and relational answers. But these answers lead to another concern. If God has been luring reality toward quality and beauty for vast ages, and yet there is still so much suffering in the universe, then do we have reasons to hope that our afterlives will be wonderful rather than more of the same? Tim will offer several imaginative scenarios illustrating that our hopes for glorious afterlives might be justified.
“Is God silent? If so, is it intentional? Many theologies have attempted to provide answers, including process and open & relational theologies. In the end, there may be no completely satisfying answer, just an invitation to live the questions, expand our visions of God, and awaken to holiness in our daily lives.”
Tim Miller, The Silence of the Lamb: Exploring the Hiddenness of God and Christ
About the Speaker
Tim Miller
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