Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.

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

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

God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.