A Jewish perspective on Charles Hartshorne's concept of god
pp. 185-195
in: Santiago Sia (ed), Charles Hartshorne's concept of God, Berlin, Springer, 1990Abstract
Charles Hartshorne's major philosophical preoccupation has been the problem of articulating a tenable conception of God. The question, as Hartshorne expresses it, "is whether and how God can be conceived without logical absurdity, and as having such a character that an enlightened person may worship and serve him with his whole heart and mind."1 Hartshorne's formulation of the problem echoes the first paragraph of the Jewish Shema prayer: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy might."2 Hartshorne has these words in mind when he defines worship as loving God "with all one's heart and with all one's mind and with all one's soul and with all one's strength."3 Hartshorne's definition of the issue indicates one of the criteria to be utilized in analyzing his concept of God from a Jewish perspective — namely, adequacy to the basic religious insights of Jewish monotheism.
