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An Evolving Torah from an Evolving God
Process Theology posits that God is not a static Being but evolves along with the universe and human action. Our ancestors saw the divine light in the Torah, which we can reclaim by continuing reinterpretation.
Published: June 20, 2023
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Last Updated: September 7, 2026
Editor’s note: See discussion in, Athalya Brenner-Idan, “The Decalogue: Are Female Readers Included?” TheTorah (2016); Sarah Schectman, “Feminist Biblical Interpretation: History and Goals,” TheTorah (2019); Ada Taggar-Cohen, “Why Are There No Israelite Priestesses?” TheTorah (2016).
Editor’s note: See discussion in, Shawna Dolansky, “Regarding Azazel and Homosexuals in the Same Parasha,” TheTorah (2015); David Frankel, “Male Homosexual Intercourse Is Prohibited – In One Part of the Torah,” TheTorah (2017); Isaac Sassoon, “What Does Deuteronomy Say about Homosexuality?” TheTorah (2017); Idan Dershowitz, “How the Prohibition of Male Homosexual Intercourse Altered the Laws of Incest,” TheTorah (2018).
Editor’s note: See discussion in, Jason Radine, “The Torah Begins with Creation to Defend Israel’s Right to the Land?” TheTorah (2020); Nili Wazana, “Israel’s Declaration of Independence and the Biblical Right to the Land,” TheTorah (2018); Gili Kugler, “Joshua’s Conquest: A Cultural and Pedagogical Dilemma in Modern Israel,” TheTorah (2021).
For an introduction, see Bradley Shavit Artson, God of Becoming and Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology (Nashville: JewishLights Publishing, 2016).
Editor’s note: See another discussion of this point in Amit Kula, “Abraham, Smasher of Idols, and the Question of the Torah’s Historicity,” TheTorah (2014).
