A Theology of Becoming

The language we speak moulds the way we think. In considering the name of God, Yahweh, Reverend Huggett contrasts Hebrew thinking with that of Greek and Latin. From this he reinterprets God's name from the "God who is", influenced by Greco-Roman thought, to the "God who will become whatever he will become", implied by the original Hebrew. From this insight he derives a theology which challenges the Platonic idea of the perfect, static, unchanging God, inherent in much Christian thought, and suggests instead a God who is dynamic, creative, and constantly developing. This new form of process theology is fully compatible with the biblical texts, but questions traditional assumptions where they are apparently derived from classical philosophy.