David R. Larson

[This little paper contributed to a lasting differene in the dialogue between process theolgy and openness of of God theology. This difference has subsquently been most fully developed in Thomas J. Oord's "Essential Kenosis." DRL /20/2025] Process Theology and Openness of God Theology:  Necessarily, Essentially, Neither or Both:  How Does God Love the World? A Presentation by David R. Larson at the  November 2004 meetings of the American Academy of Religion  meetings in San Antonio, Texas “There is in God both supreme necessity and supreme contingency.” Karl Barth  God’s “conceptuality at once exemplifies  and establishes the categoreal conditions.”  Alfred North Whitehead  “God’s sociality cannot be satisfied by God’s self;   God’s love requires an object that is not God, namely, a world.”  Donna Bowman  [This little paper contributed to a lasting difference the dialogue between process theolgy and openness of of God...

Many of President Trump's supporters are ethics consequentialists. They believe that right actions are right because and only because they produce good results and wrong actions are wrong because and only because they produce bad results. What do we mean by "good" and "bad?" For whom must these results be good? When should they be evaluated? Who should evaluate them? Should they be evaluated on a case-by-case basis or a policy-by-policy basis? Different combinations of different answers to each of these five questions create a family of consequentialist ethics theories and not just one. For many supporters of President Trump the answers are as follows: A good result is an outcome that is an improvement in overall wellbeing. These results must first be good for the United States and then, if possible, good for other nations too. They should be evaluated by the voters in the 2028 elections. They should be evaluated on a policy-by-policy basis. There is a goo...