Concerning Creativity: A Comparison of Chu Hsi, Whitehead, and Neville
This work examines the philosophies and theologies of three thinkers - Chu Hsi, Alfred North Whitehead, and Robert C. Neville - separated by time, space, and culture. In so doing John H. Berthrong provides a suggestive and successful comparison of creativity as a cross-cultural theme while introducing Neo-Confucianism as a sophisticated dialogue partner with modern Western speculative philosophy and theology.
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This work examines the philosophies and theologies of three thinkers - Chu Hsi, Alfred North Whitehead, and Robert C. Neville - separated by time, space, and culture. In so doing John H. Berthrong provides a suggestive and successful comparison of creativity as a cross-cultural theme while introducing Neo-Confucianism as a sophisticated dialogue partner with modern Western speculative philosophy and theology. Booknews Berthrong (theology, Boston U.), in response and reaction to the criticisms of Robert Neville, uses the Chinese Neo-Confucian thought of Chu Hsi to demonstrate how creativity can be re-integrated into Alfred North Whitehead's process discourse as creative synthesis. He treats Hsi's work as an earlier East Asian form of process thought, and thus creates a cross-cultural examination, combining material from different cultures and different times, along with elements of hermeneutic, historical, philosophic, and theological analysis and critique. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations Used in the Text1The Problem of Creativity, God, and the World12The Development of God333Neville's Challenge614Introducing the Neo-Confucians975A Neo-Confucian Interlude: Chu Hsi on Creativity1116The World Reunited1437The Unity of Divine Things175AppendixThe Structure of Archic Analysis209Bibliography223Index241
\ BooknewsBerthrong (theology, Boston U.), in response and reaction to the criticisms of Robert Neville, uses the Chinese Neo-Confucian thought of Chu Hsi to demonstrate how creativity can be re-integrated into Alfred North Whitehead's process discourse as creative synthesis. He treats Hsi's work as an earlier East Asian form of process thought, and thus creates a cross-cultural examination, combining material from different cultures and different times, along with elements of hermeneutic, historical, philosophic, and theological analysis and critique. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
