Relevancy22: Contemporary Process Christianity: Post-Evangelic Topics and Theology: A List of Process Writings From the Past

Quotes & Sayings

We, and creation itself, actualize the possibilities of the God who sustains the world, towards becoming in the world in a fuller, more deeper way. - R.E. Slater

There is urgency in coming to see the world as a web of interrelated processes of which we are integral parts, so that all of our choices and actions have [consequential effects upon] the world around us. - Process Metaphysician Alfred North Whitehead

Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem says (i) all closed systems are unprovable within themselves and, that (ii) all open systems are rightly understood as incomplete. - R.E. Slater

The most true thing about you is what God has said to you in Christ, "You are My Beloved." - Tripp Fuller

The God among us is the God who refuses to be God without us, so great is God's Love. - Tripp Fuller

According to some Christian outlooks we were made for another world. Perhaps, rather, we were made for this world to recreate, reclaim, redeem, and renew unto God's future aspiration by the power of His Spirit. - R.E. Slater

Our eschatological ethos is to love. To stand with those who are oppressed. To stand against those who are oppressing. It is that simple. Love is our only calling and Christian Hope. - R.E. Slater

Secularization theory has been massively falsified. We don't live in an age of secularity. We live in an age of explosive, pervasive religiosity... an age of religious pluralism. - Peter L. Berger

Exploring the edge of life and faith in a post-everything world. - Todd Littleton

I don't need another reason to believe, your love is all around for me to see. – Anon

Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all. - Khalil Gibran, Prayer XXIII

Be careful what you pretend to be. You become what you pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut

Religious beliefs, far from being primary, are often shaped and adjusted by our social goals. - Jim Forest

We become who we are by what we believe and can justify. - R.E. Slater

People, even more than things, need to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. – Anon

Certainly, God's love has made fools of us all. - R.E. Slater

An apocalyptic Christian faith doesn't wait for Jesus to come, but for Jesus to become in our midst. - R.E. Slater

Christian belief in God begins with the cross and resurrection of Jesus, not with rational apologetics. - Eberhard Jüngel, Jürgen Moltmann

Our knowledge of God is through the 'I-Thou' encounter, not in finding God at the end of a syllogism or argument. There is a grave danger in any Christian treatment of God as an object. The God of Jesus Christ and Scripture is irreducibly subject and never made as an object, a force, a power, or a principle that can be manipulated. - Emil Brunner

“Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh” means "I will be that who I have yet to become." - God (Ex 3.14) or, conversely, “I AM who I AM Becoming.”

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. - Thomas Merton

The church is God's world-changing social experiment of bringing unlikes and differents to the Eucharist/Communion table to share life with one another as a new kind of family. When this happens, we show to the world what love, justice, peace, reconciliation, and life together is designed by God to be. The church is God's show-and-tell for the world to see how God wants us to live as a blended, global, polypluralistic family united with one will, by one Lord, and baptized by one Spirit. – Anon

The cross that is planted at the heart of the history of the world cannot be uprooted. - Jacques Ellul

The Unity in whose loving presence the universe unfolds is inside each person as a call to welcome the stranger, protect animals and the earth, respect the dignity of each person, think new thoughts, and help bring about ecological civilizations. - John Cobb & Farhan A. Shah

If you board the wrong train it is of no use running along the corridors of the train in the other direction. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God's justice is restorative rather than punitive; His discipline is merciful rather than punishing; His power is made perfect in weakness; and His grace is sufficient for all. – Anon

Our little [biblical] systems have their day; they have their day and cease to be. They are but broken lights of Thee, and Thou, O God art more than they. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

We can’t control God; God is uncontrollable. God can’t control us; God’s love is uncontrolling! - Thomas Jay Oord

Life in perspective but always in process... as we are relational beings in process to one another, so life events are in process in relation to each event... as God is to Self, is to world, is to us... like Father, like sons and daughters, like events... life in process yet always in perspective. - R.E. Slater

To promote societal transition to sustainable ways of living and a global society founded on a shared ethical framework which includes respect and care for the community of life, ecological integrity, universal human rights, respect for diversity, economic justice, democracy, and a culture of peace. - The Earth Charter Mission Statement

Christian humanism is the belief that human freedom, individual conscience, and unencumbered rational inquiry are compatible with the practice of Christianity or even intrinsic in its doctrine. It represents a philosophical union of Christian faith and classical humanist principles. - Scott Postma

It is never wise to have a self-appointed religious institution determine a nation's moral code. The opportunities for moral compromise and failure are high; the moral codes and creeds assuredly racist, discriminatory, or subjectively and religiously defined; and the pronouncement of inhumanitarian political objectives quite predictable. - R.E. Slater

God's love must both center and define the Christian faith and all religious or human faiths seeking human and ecological balance in worlds of subtraction, harm, tragedy, and evil. - R.E. Slater

In Whitehead’s process ontology, we can think of the experiential ground of reality as an eternal pulse whereby what is objectively public in one moment becomes subjectively prehended in the next, and whereby the subject that emerges from its feelings then perishes into public expression as an object (or “superject”) aiming for novelty. There is a rhythm of Being between object and subject, not an ontological division. This rhythm powers the creative growth of the universe from one occasion of experience to the next. This is the Whiteheadian mantra: “The many become one and are increased by one.” - Matthew Segall

Without Love there is no Truth. And True Truth is always Loving. There is no dichotomy between these terms but only seamless integration. This is the premier centering focus of a Processual Theology of Love. - R.E. Slater

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Note: Generally I do not respond to commentary. I may read the comments but wish to reserve my time to write (or write from the comments I read). Instead, I'd like to see our community help one another and in the helping encourage and exhort each of us towards Christian love in Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior. - re slater

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

A List of Process Writings From the Past

The Importance of Memory, Recording & Archiving

by R.E. Slater

I was on a zoom conference this afternoon with a number of individuals concerned with how to introduce a Process-form of Ecological Economics into the general pool of thinking, scholarship, government programs, private industry, and the public at large. What surprised me was for how long they have been attempting to do this... as far back as the 1970-80s. Perhaps even longer.

The speaker was Herman E. Daly whose bio and life's work I put up in the post previous to this today. Also in the discussions were John Cobb who hosted the conference, Tim Eastman, and Jay McDaniel. At the end of the conference Jay graciously shared with the group a number of articles which his website contains.

From a brief search on Jay's Open Horizons site I found a number of helpful postings which I would like to share with those of you who are interested, as I am, in the early days of process thought and its affects upon a world of ideas I've never read or heard about - neither in school, church, university, or the workplace.

Hence, the importance of the list below with mine own growing lists on the subject of Whitehead, Process Philosophy, Process Theology, Process Christianity, Process-based sciences, ecological civilizations, interpretive process-based history, the social and psychological sciences, and in general, Process-Everything.

The List below is a good start. A historical start from those authors and writers living out their elder years having placed their hearts and souls into our formative past which we never knew existed, had never read, never considered, nor even thought about.

But... No... Longer....

Thank you Jay for keeping a record of our past though we knew it not.

R.E. Slater

May 4, 2021

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Open Horizons - Search: Herman E. Daly

https://www.openhorizons.org/apps/search?q=herman+daly

Economic Flourishing after the Pandemic: Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics
as a voice for Planetary Economics by John Cobb. co-author with Herman Daly of For the Common GoodThe most ...

Economic Flourishing for the Good of Life: Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics
Cobb. co-author with Herman Daly of For the Common GoodThe most important discussions in shaping ...

SHE: Alice Phoebe Lou
, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'.” ― Mary Daly "I urge you to Sin ...

Feminism and the Courage to Be: Voyaging with the Ultimately Intimate
Daly "I urge you to Sin. ... But not against these itty-bitty religions ...

John Cobb in China
in approaching the ecological crisis. In 1989 Cobb co-authored a book with Herman Daly, For the Common ...

A Critical View of Inherited Theology
: Reclaiming the Church(1997); with Herman Daly, For the Common Good; Becoming a Thinking Christian (1993 ...

International Women's Day: What Have Men to Say?
philosopher Mary Daly, who said, so many years ago, that patriarchy is a global caste ...

Everything Flows: A Process Approach to Ecohumanism
and a Sustainable Future. 2nd Edition. Boston: Beacon Press, 1994. Economist Herman Daly and theologian ...

Christian Process Theology: Its Early Phase
with an economist, Herman Daly, to write For the Common Good (1989). To understand process theology ...

Islamic and Christian Approaches to Ecology: Comparing John Cobb and Seyyed Nasr
A: Polity Press, 2011.Daly, Herman E.; John B. Cobb; and Clifford W. Cobb. For the Common Good ...

Weaving the World: Feminist Theology and Process Theology
to women such as Mary Daly, whose approach is to see to the creation of a feminist society. She ...

The King: Elvis Presley as a Metaphor for the Rise and Decline of America
theme of Elvis' life. "Herman Melville once wrote very cryptic lines. He said the Declaration ...

Transfiguration: A Lutheran's Journey
theological reflection in poetry and novels and essays by writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman ...

A Buddhist-Christian Critique of Neo-Liberal Economics
Studies there. His many books currently in print include: Reclaiming the Church(1997); with Herman Daly ...

Process Theology and the Bible: How Science Has Changed Our View of God
include: Reclaiming the Church (1997); with Herman Daly, For the Common Good; Becoming a Thinking ...

Whitehead's Theory of Value
books currently in print include: Reclaiming the Church (1997); with Herman Daly, For the Common ...

Four Ways to Roll Up Our Sleeves: Practicing Earth Day Every Day
economy must also be limited. Herman Daly has long been the leader in this development.Ecological ...

Rubbing Fire into Your Life: Process and the Poetic Life
of meaningful, life-enhancing connections. Rukeyser tells us that, in American poetry, Herman Melville ...

Ten Ideas for Saving the Planet
portion. As long as the natural economy is limited, the human economy must also be limited. Herman ...

Original Sin Revisited: Marjorie Suchocki
Cone wrote devastatingly about the sins of white society, and Mary Daly was exceeding clear ...

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even as late

Essays by John B. Cobb, Jr.

COMPILED BY JAY MCDANIEL

Did God Create the World out of Nothing? Ask John Cobb
Two Questions for John Cobb about China
Christian Process Theology: Its Early Phase
John Cobb on Patriotism
Process Theology and the Bible: How Science has changed our view of God
John Cobb on Biblical Inspiration and Interpretation
Revaluing the Values of Science, Religion, and Education: John B. Cobb, Jr.
A Critical View of Inherited Theology
Should I Understand God Literally or Metaphorically?
Does Science Support Belief in God?
Which is More Important? The Historical Jesus or the Cosmic Christ?
We Live in a Thoroughly Miraculous World
Whitehead's Theory of Value
Five Foundations for a New Civilization
Ten Ideas for Saving the Planet
Economic Justice and Process Philosophy
What is My Vocation?
The Postmodern John Cobb: Deconstructive and Constructive
An Appreciation of David Korten
God as Abba: A Proposal from John Cobb
The Aesthetic and the Ethical: John Cobb
A Buddhist-Christian Critique of Neo-Liberal Economics
Wesley the Process Theologian: An Essay by John Cobb