Faithful to the Earth Nietzsche and Whitehead

Faithful to the Earth, winner of the Bross Prize for Christian Scholarship that is awarded only once every 10 years, goes way beyond contrasting the theist with the atheist. J. Thomas Howe argues that Alfred North Whitehead's understanding of God lays the foundation for a religious life strikingly similar to that described in Friedrich Nietzsche's tragic, but affirmative, philosophy.

J. Thomas Howe is a professorial lecturer in theology at Georgetown University. He serves on the Board of Distinguished Visitors at the School of Religion at Claremont Graduate University.

Abbreviations

vii

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction

1

(10)

The Death of God and the Problem of Nihilism

11

(20)

The Rise and Development of the Christian Moral Interpretation, Part 1: Socratic Platonism

31

(24)

The Rise and Development of the Christian Moral Interpretation, Part 2: Christianity and Kantian Philosophy

55

(16)

Nietzsche and the Life of Affirmation

71

(20)

Whitehead's Criticism of the Classical Christian Doctrine of God

91

(20)

The Life and the Sense of the World

111

(16)

Whitehead's View of God and the Religious Life

127

(32)

Conclusion

159

(12)

Bibliography

171

(8)

Index

179

(5)

About the Author

184

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Faithful to the Earth Nietzsche and Whitehead on God and the Meaning of Human Life

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