Livingston, James C. "Process Thought: Is It a Kind of New Christian Natural Theology?" in The Ecological Turn of Modern Civilization. Ed. Tongjing Yang & Yuyuan Gao. ChongQing, China: ChongQing Publishing Group. 2007. 262-273..

Abstract

(translated excerpt) Process metaphysics is not new in philosophy, but more and more Christian Theologians have adopted it, this however is a very late phenomenon.  Process study's beginning can be traced back to 19th century's two dominate trends of thought: Schelling and Hegel's German romanticism's theory of evolution and Darwinism.  Evolution, development, and process constitutes the nature of its essence, this perspective is the key to understanding this school of thought.  Although Hegel and Schelling allowed evolutionary perspective to possess the dominated position, it did not constitute contemporary process thinking's main source of thought.   Contemporary popular process thought's source can mainly be contributed two early 20th century philosophers: Bergon and Whitehead.