077 - The Journey Not the Destination: The Case for Universal Purposeful Evolution
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Does Spirit evolve?
How about God?
And what exactly does the term panentheism mean?
This episode takes a deep dive into process philosophy, process theology, and the evolutionary nature of "becoming."
The pioneer work of Charles Hartshorne, Alfred North Whitehead, Charles Sanders Peirce, and of course Hegel, all in a way process philosophers, is addressed.
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