High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Charles Hartshorne (June 5, 1897 – October 9, 2000) was a prominent American philosopher who concentrated primarily on the philosophy of religion and metaphysics. He developed the neoclassical idea of God and produced a modal proof of the existence of God that was a development of St. Anselm`s Ontological Argument. Hartshorne is also noted for developing Alfred North Whitehead`s process philosophy into process theology.