Hope in Process is not only a major initiative in African-American religious thought, it is also an urflinching analysis of the causes and consequences of our new multicultural situation and a paradigm for constructing theologies that preserve and enhance the distinctiveness of groups too long on the margins of theological discourse

Henry James Young finds in process thought's organic models of pluralism a fertile worldview free of classical culture's inherent biases-race, gender, class, and power. He deftly reconstructs theological method in a way that not merely tolerates but legitimates and fosters social and theological pluralism. This new paradigm, which Young argues will be useful to minority groups in their contex-tual religious reflection on social reality, reconfigures traditional theological sources in a creative and liberating way