"This important and profoundly original book is written in the belief that the church has a fighting chance of restoring to modern man the wholeness of vision he seeks in the midst of fragmentation—that fragmentation characteristic of every human apprehension and especially evident today in the splintered specialization of contemporary thought. Spiritual and intellectual heath lie in the synthesizing of our religious convictions with understand of nature and man. Contemporary cosmology, inspired by science, has been the dominant factor in undermining the Christian faith. A Christian natural theology is needed, says the author, and is of ultimate importance for the survival and integrity of the church. Rigorous philosophical reasoning alone can show the way to a world view that correlates Christianity and science, faith and intellect. With clarity and brilliance, Dr. Cobb presents here a comprehensive, cohesive, and coherent Christian natural theology derived, with both logic and intuition, from the philosophy of Lafred North Whitehead, greatest of twentieth-century philosophers and one of the most creative thinkers of all time. Whitehead's particular genius for synthesis resulted in a unification of all the compelled components of science, logic, and mathematics—of social, aesthetic, moral, and religious experience. this totality, plus the Christian vision of reality which was his starting point, makes hum guide extraordinary to a new completeness in Christian thinking. the author not only explains how Whitehead's system makes tenable the personal God that many philosophical systems reject, but draws out the great philosopher's thought in theological contexts. Chapter 1 introduces the reader to Whitehead's total scheme of though. Chapter 2 analyzes his ideas on the nature of man which relate to theological anthropology, Chapter 3 summarizes Whitehead's theories of value and draws deductions for ethics. chapters 4 and 5 trace the development of his though about God and suggest a systematic doctrine of God dependent upon Whitehead's philosophy but nevertheless differing from some of his explicit statements. Chapter 6 breaks new ground in the interpretation of various religious experiences in Whiteheadian terms. chapter 7 explicates the nature of philosophy and theology and compares them as methods. This book is a necessity—not only for students of theology and philosophy, but for any minister or Chirstian layman who would try to communicate with the estranged intelligentsia...to combat nihilism with knowledge, to convey the possibility of an organic view of the universe with a Christian God at center."-Publisher.