Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Charles Hartshorne

Leading Exponent of Process Theism or Neo-clasical Theism. He vigorously defended the thesis that God presides over an everlasting universe as its eminent creative power and is supremely open to creaturely influence.

"All of one’s life can be a “reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice” to deity, a sacrifice whose value depends on the quality of life, and this depends on the depth of the devotion to all good things, to all life’s possibilities, neither as mine nor as not mine but as belonging to God’s creatures and thus to God."

"A miracle is visible only to the heart it touches."