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Whitehead's Notion of the Person and the Saving of the Past

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

Rosemary T. Curran
Affiliation:
Department of Theology, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458, USA

Extract

Isaac B. Singer's great short story ‘Gimpel the Fool’ is a tale of redemption. It embodies in its delightfully exaggerated characters a central notion of process thought — that a human person is a coming together of his/her past in a way that is always open to a new future. The story reminds us that human interdependence is so profound that by our actions we can not only transform the meaning of our own past and future, but we may also radically affect the meaning of the past and the possibilities for the future of those closest to us.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1983

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