Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.

God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.

I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.

Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.

I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.