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Sunday Circle 9:00 am
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He was a philosopher, logician, and eccentric. He retooled traditional theology, studied birdsong, wrote poems, and never drove a car. He was Charles Hartshorne, the eminent 20-century theologian, and yet few outside academia have ever heard of him. Hartshorne developed the process philosophy of the great mathematician Alfred North Whitehead into a novel way of looking at life and God which he called neoclassical metaphysics, or dipolar theism. It’s a natural theology, meaning, it is thought out rationally and is based on observable fact and experience, rather than resorting to revelations or mysteries to explain the world. The icing on the cake? Charles and his wife Dorothy had Universalist and Quaker ancestors, and they were members of UU Austin. We will explore Hartshorne’s life and times–how does a philosopher navigate daily life, anyway?–and we’ll see how the Divine Relativity, in his view, can bring love and beauty to Unitarian Universalists.
Janis Seagrave first went to a UU service at age 15, and has been at UUMarin since 1989. She has held many positions at this congregation and currently is a Worship Associate as well as the founder/facilitator of the silent worship group Still Waters. She lives in San Rafael now with a coast live oak and a redwood, and hopes to soon add a cat to the mix. She was born in Virginia, formally educated in the philosophy of religion at Cal State Northridge and Claremont Graduate School, and has worked as a writer, storyteller, and librarian. Since her retirement, she has been writing and publishing poetry in journals, and was nominated for a 2023 Pushcart Prize. She is seeking a publisher for her first chapbook, and is completing her second.
Topics: History