Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-191) and index.

The legacy of the sixties -- The variety of Whitehead's approaches to reality : the approach through science -- The variety of Whitehead's approaches to reality : his investigation of religious experience and expression -- The variety of Whitehead's approaches to reality : philosophical investigations and the selection of a cosmological framework -- Whtiehead's metaphysical system -- Analysis of the concept of God in Process and reality -- Some appraisals of Whitehead's cosmology -- The need for a fresh appeal to the philosophical, historical and theological foundations -- Analysis of the tradition -- Problems in the metaphysical interpretation of the tradition : the fourth-century climate of opinion and Whitehead -- The formulation of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity : Athanasius, the Nicaean formula and Whitehead -- The completion of Whitehead's ideas in the Christian understanding of God, and the re-formulation of the cosmological framework as the basis for a reconstruction in theology.