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Creativity According to Hartshorne, "The concept of creative becoming has a religious origin, for it is the generalization of the divine 'fiat' back of the world" (LP: 122). "Whitehead's 'category of the ultimate'-creativity-is merely theology become clear as to its own meaning.It is the only ultimate category that belongs in a theistic philosophy. Not 'being,' for that is an abstraction from becoming or creative freedom" ("Man's Fragmentariness": 27). "A theistic philosophy ... must make of creativity a 'transcendental/ the very essence of reality as self-surpassing process. This is precisely what Whitehead does in his 'category of the ultimate!!' (ANT: 26). Elsewhere Hartshorne points out that "just as in Thomism 'being' is not simply the same in God and in other things, so in [Whitehead's

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