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" [A] process theology is not relevant to belief in God, insofar as one understands such belief to be in any case other and more than merely accepting the truth of some kind of theistic belief. It is one thing to accent certain truths about God, and in that sense to believe in him; but it is something else again to trust in God himself or to live in loyalty to him, and in that sense to believe in him. Because this is so, a process theology is no more able than any other theology to bring about belief in God in this further sense of trusting in and being faithful to God himself" ("Evil and Belief in God: The Distinctive Relevance of a 'Process Theology"': 31).

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"This is no doubt a disturbing reflection to those of us who are seriously concerned with belief in God and who are therefore only too likely to succumb to the existential idolatry of making the rightness of our beliefs an essential part of our basic faith in the ultimate meaning of life. But I submit that it can also be a profoundly liberating reflection. In becoming aware that the meaning of our life, finally, is not dependent on our having the right beliefs, but only on our continuing to trust and to be faithful, whatever we may be led to believe, we may be sufficiently free from ourselves and for others to really examine our beliefs-to ask, perhaps for the first time, just what they really mean and whether we have sufficient reason to continue to hold them" (Doing Theology Today: 107 f.).

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