Terminology Tuesday: Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
English logician, mathematician, and philosopher, whose later metaphysical work provided the inspiration for process theology. Whitehead first achieved fame as the coauthor, with Bertrand Russell, of Principia Mathematica, one of the seminal works of modern symbolic logic. Whitehead’s later metaphysical work attempts to reject the notion of substance as philosophically basic by taking ontologically related events as basic to ontology. God functions in this system not as a personal agent but more as the ground of possibilities and alluring ideal that leads to their actualization.
Evans, C. Stephen, Pocket Dictionary of Apologetics & Philosophy of Religion (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2002).