Richard Rothstein is a contemporary philosopher of religion who has contributed to discussions in process theology and the philosophy of divine attributes. His work engages with questions of divine passibility, arguing that a genuinely responsive God must be capable of experiencing suffering alongside creation. His arguments draw on the tradition of open and relational theology.
Argued for divine passibility — that God must exemplify pain as a condition of genuine relational engagement with creation
Contributed to debates on the nature of omnipotence and divine empathy in contemporary theology
Engaged with process-relational frameworks derived from Whitehead and Hartshorne