Kuo, Uen-fu.  "Whitehead on God and the World." (Conference Paper- International Conference on Creativity and Process: East-West Dialogue 2007).

Abstract

"God and the World" is the title of the last chapter of Whitehead's Process and Reality which indicates the relation between God and the world being the last issue with which Whitehead's metaphysics tries to deal.  For Whitehead, God is of dipolar nature; the primordial and consequent nature of God is closely associated with eternal objects and the transient world respectively.  As Whitehead maintains, it is as true to say that god is permanent and the World is fluent, as that the World is permanent and God is fluent.  There are still other pairs, such as one and many, immanent and transcendent, creating and created etc.  taking the place of permanent and fluent.  How can God and the world exchange their distinct features in Whitehead's metaphysics without causing any self-contradictions?  The present paper suggest that it is an organismic viewpoint that Whitehead envisages a harmonious and comprehensive relationship between God and the World such as to consume all kinds of apparent contradictions.