The eminent theologian Paul Tillich is reported to have once said at an academic symposium, “We ought to have had [Charles] Hartshorne, he knows more about these things than the rest of us put together” (letter from Charles Hartshorne to Schubert Ogden, November 26, 1963, Schubert M. Ogden Collection, Drew University Library). Indeed, for the second half of the twentieth century, one would have been hard pressed to find anyone as thoroughly knowledgeable in, and moreover who made so many substantive contributions to, the philosophy of religion and philosophical theology as Charles Hartshorne.
Perhaps Donald Wayne Viney and George W. Shields would agree with that assessment; at the very least, they would be well positioned to do so. Indeed, as arguably the capstone of careers that at least since their doctoral days have been devoted in significant measure to understanding, critiquing, and advancing Hartshorne's philosophical achievement, The Mind of Charles...
