behind the God of orthodoxy lay an implicit and outmoded metaphysics. And they appreciated the process accommodation, not just to evolutionary ideas but to those of physics as well. Moreover, many theologians thought that the luring, process God better approximated to the ever-relating, agape God of the Bible than did the traditional impassive deity, and process appeared to solve the problem of evil by demolishing a sovereign God. Sin, for example, in the process model, constitutes blocking out the