• PART I:
  NO! AND YES!
• Preface
• Is God Necessary?
• The New Atheists
• Religion’s Worst Enemy
• The Church Outside the Church
• Where Is Reliable Power?
• What We Stand For
• Two Americas: Hemingway and Frost
• Beyond All Gods
• PART II:
  AMERICA’S NEW VISION OF GOD
• Preface
• Charles Sanders Peirce
• William James
• William Ernest Hocking
• Alfred North Whitehead
• Charles Hartshorne
• Conclusion to Part II and Recommended Reading
• PART III:
  GOD AND THE MODERN WORLD
• Preface
• The Struggle for Power and PeaceWilliam Ernest Hocking
• A Modern View of GodCharles Hartshorne
• God at the End of the CenturyJohn E. Smith
• A Common FaithJohn Dewey
• God and the WorldAlfred North Whitehead
• The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern WorldVaclav Havel

Preface

“God and the Modern World” is a theme which has been a pre cious part of my liberal ministry since 1960.

In addition to hosting occasional annual events at the continental General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association, I have done the same on a small scale for many years with respect to colloquium gatherings at Harvard University, where I served as one of the chaplains. Our invited speakers for these informal colloquia open to the public were natural scientists, social scientists, and humanities faculty and practioners. These events were presented by the Cambridge Forum, of which I was the director for twenty years.