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.

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

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

Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling throughout our society that religious belief is outmoded, or downright impossible, in a scientific age. I don't agree. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if people in this so-called 'scientific age' knew a bit more about science than many of them actually do, they'd find it easier to share my views.

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

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

The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.