This document provides an introduction to process theology. It discusses key concepts like God's power being persuasive love-power rather than omnipotent power, and the world and God having a shared and interdependent power. It also covers topics like the nature of prayer as changing both the individual and God, and opening ourselves to God's creative energy. Prayer is a partnership between the individual and God rather than a way to manipulate God. Process theology sees the universe as creative, interconnected, and open to future change with God as a relational presence in all of existence.

1. Intro to Process Theology

2. Intro to Process
Theology
Science and Religion
Evil and Suffering
Jesus and Creative Transformation
Prayer (and Pluralism)

4. Do you pray?
Why do you
pray?
How do you
expect God to
respond to your
prayers?

5. God's Power in
Process Theology
Omnipotent
Omnipresent
Almighty
Persuasive
All-powerful Love-power
God World

6. Shared Power in Process Theology
Power of being
Omnipresent
Power to affect
Persuasive
Power to choose
Love-power
Power to love
God World
Interdependence

7. Supernaturalism
Why didn't God
answer my
God
prayer?
God answers
prayers the way
God wants to,
World but it may not be
what you want.

8. In God's Presence

9. Prayer is...
Prayers is the act of bringing our moment-by-
moment connectedness to God into our
consciousness
Prayer is opening ourselves to God's own
creative energy and offering back to God the
gift of ourselves
Prayer is joining with God in willing the well-
being of ourselves, friends, enemies...the whole
world

10. Prayer in Process
Prayer changes us,
the world, and God.
God works with the
world as it is in
order to bring it to
where it can be.
The real prayer is
the one who prays.

11. "Prayer is a
partnership with
God, not a
manipulation of
God." -MS
"Prayer is prompted by God and
released to God." -MS

12. Mortality and healing
Prayer cannot eliminate our mortality.
Not-yet-irreversible Irreversible
Vs.
illness illness
Healing is always possible.

13. Pray

14. You?

15. Process theology sees the
universe as creative,
interrelational, dynamic, and
open to the future. In process
theology, God is relational,
present in every moment of our
lives and in all entities and
levels of being. The world is
interconnected, in effect a giant
ecosystem where what harms or
blesses one, harms or blesses all.

16. April-May
Pluralism
Trinity
Sin and Forgiveness
Evolution