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Piglet's Process: Process Theology for All God's Children
Does theology have to be dry and boring in order to be serious? Not at all!
The prophet Isaiah once said, “a little child will lead them.” But, what about a character from Winnie the Pooh? Can anxious, yet adventurous, Piglet help us understand our relationship with God and one another?
Theology is serious business. So serious that it can’t be left solely to adults! Bruce Epperly’s imaginative conversations with Piglet explore the contours of theological reflection from the perspective of Process Theology. Process Theology is often seen as far too complicated for adults to understand and impossible to teach or preach to laypeople. In this text, an experienced
pastor and professor and a beloved character from the Winnie the Pooh stories bring Process Theology to life and explore themes such as beauty, spirituality, adventure, friendship, healing, and God’s presence in our lives. In the spirit of Jesus’ parables, Piglet’s Process will inspire your imagination and creativity and invite you on a never-ending spiritual journey with a theologian, stuffed animal, and the healer from Nazareth as your companions.
This is a book to read for fun and study seriously. It's theology for everyone.
- GenresTheology
78 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 13, 2019
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August 14, 2020
This book needs a better editor, but overall I enjoyed the discussions between the author and Piglet.
January 22, 2020
Process Theology has its attractions, but it can be difficult to understand. Most expositions of this particular form of theology make significant use not only of the ideas of Alfred North Whitehead but his vocabulary as well. Now I know that Aquinas and Barth are also difficult to comprehend at points. That's just the nature of academic theology.
One proponent of Process Theology wh has found ways of making this relational form of the theology understandable is Bruce Epperly. He has written about Process Theology in a variety of ways, many recently in very short form, making them easily digestible (see his various contributions to Energion Publication's Topical Line Drive series. Bruce also has made use of literature and children's stories, in particular, to share his vision of the Christian faith. Being an attentive grandfather, he has been spending time in those stories, including the stories of Winnie the Pooh.
In Piglet's Process, Bruce invites us to think on the message of Process theology in conversation with the character Piglet from the Winnie the Pooh stories. Piglet is Pooh's closest friend and as Bruce notes throughout the book, is a "very small animal." Piglet and Pooh, along with the other characters in the Pooh stories are in reality the stuffed animals of Christopher Robin, but who come to life in Christopher Robin's imagination. In the stories, they inhabit the "100 Aker Wood." One thing about Piglet is that he has a tendency of becoming anxious about things, and this anxiousness provides the foundation for Bruce's conversations about Process Theology with Piglet. Bruce writes that "We need the wisdom of simple and good-hearted stuffed toys to help us find our way through the dark wood and reveal the foolishness of the powerful and wealthy. We need the harmony of the Wood to remind us of the beauty of diversity" (pp. 2-3).
Bruce draws occasionally from the actual Pooh stories, but for the most part he intersperses conversations with Piglet that come from his own imagination. In the course of these conversations, Bruce introduces us to "Twelve Principles of the Process Way." These principles speak of creativity (divine and human), relationality, friendships, beauty, and more. As laid out here, with much of the philosophical and theological jargon removed, we can see the attractiveness of the vision.
One proponent of Process Theology wh has found ways of making this relational form of the theology understandable is Bruce Epperly. He has written about Process Theology in a variety of ways, many recently in very short form, making them easily digestible (see his various contributions to Energion Publication's Topical Line Drive series. Bruce also has made use of literature and children's stories, in particular, to share his vision of the Christian faith. Being an attentive grandfather, he has been spending time in those stories, including the stories of Winnie the Pooh.
In Piglet's Process, Bruce invites us to think on the message of Process theology in conversation with the character Piglet from the Winnie the Pooh stories. Piglet is Pooh's closest friend and as Bruce notes throughout the book, is a "very small animal." Piglet and Pooh, along with the other characters in the Pooh stories are in reality the stuffed animals of Christopher Robin, but who come to life in Christopher Robin's imagination. In the stories, they inhabit the "100 Aker Wood." One thing about Piglet is that he has a tendency of becoming anxious about things, and this anxiousness provides the foundation for Bruce's conversations about Process Theology with Piglet. Bruce writes that "We need the wisdom of simple and good-hearted stuffed toys to help us find our way through the dark wood and reveal the foolishness of the powerful and wealthy. We need the harmony of the Wood to remind us of the beauty of diversity" (pp. 2-3).
Bruce draws occasionally from the actual Pooh stories, but for the most part he intersperses conversations with Piglet that come from his own imagination. In the course of these conversations, Bruce introduces us to "Twelve Principles of the Process Way." These principles speak of creativity (divine and human), relationality, friendships, beauty, and more. As laid out here, with much of the philosophical and theological jargon removed, we can see the attractiveness of the vision.
March 10, 2020
This puts forward a process view of God and reality with the help of our friends from the 100 Acre Wood. At first it sounds cheesy but it is the best piece for regular people I've come across in years. It has encouraged a number of people I've read bits and pieces with and I still come back to it almost devotion like at times.
May 8, 2024
Need to review/reread. [from Loletta]
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