Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Index - Process Christianity




Index to Process Christianity

A Study of Biblical & Systematic Theologies
in Contemporary Societal Context


Christian systematic theology will often touch on some or all of the following topics: God, trinitarianism, revelation, creation and divine providence, theodicy, theological anthropology, Christology, soteriology, ecclesiology, eschatology, Israelology, Bibliology, hermeneutics, sacrament, pneumatology, Christian life, Heaven, and interfaith statements on other religions.

Traditionally, systematic (major) themes of the bible speak to God, His revealed works of creation, provision, judgment, deliverance, covenants, and promises. Further, the bible tells what happens to mankind in the light of God's nature, righteousness, faithfulness, mercy, and love.

One might also imagine the bible in terms of spiritual themes:

  • Spirituality as a belief in God (a higher power or religion)
  • Spirituality as a channel that helps
  • Spirituality as a source
  • Spirituality expressed through actions such as praying, meditating, and attending church
  • God is present and giving
  • Spirituality as one's essence

Lastly, biblical studies may be exegetical, thematic or topical, and necessarily conversant with contemporary society. To these ends, the bible may be explained through church traditions and worship, in terms of denominational doctrine, or terms of (lately) evangelical, progressive, or liberal observations, and lastly in terms of social works of helps and assistance.


Progressive Christianity takes all of the above to express belief and faith in the newer terms of process philosophy and theology which embraces more easily science and reason than have the more traditional biblical approaches which generally eschew extra-biblical sources as informing the literary reading of an ancient cultus.

As example, Process Christianity can be right at home in Lutheran, Reformed, Orthodox, or Catholic teachings but can better integrate the postmodern worlds of polypluralism, social justice, equality of humanitarian rights, post-capital and post-communist economics doctrinnaires, and political philosophies.

Process Christianity embraces Process Thought to assist in replacing earlier outmoded philosophies which have informed the church's classic theologies through the centuries with more current philosophies which are less restricting or confining of God and creation.

Moreover, Process Christianity may also intersect well with the liberal theologies of feminism, gay and transgender studies, ecological societies, peace movements, and religious interfaith movements. As example, Judaism, Islam, even Buddhism, may all participate around various forms of process theology to expand conversations while delimiting more controversial topics of faith and belief.

Lastly, Process Christianity carries with it it's own Natural Theology which provides a complimentary witness to the bible while resonating well with the quantum physics of chaos; the teleological themes of spacetime, purpose, meaning, and divine immanence; even the holistic processual processes of lively contemporaneous evolutionary development of life as expressed in evolutionary terms of the sciences, creation, human civilization, languages, and the phenomenological / existential structures of the human mind.

In all things Processual Process Christianity is a higher-order of integrating philosophy then previous thought expressions found in earlier ancient Semitic, Platonic, Neo-Platonic, Aristotelian, Thomastic, or Modern philosophies have been able to express regarding who we are, what must we do, what purposes may we live for, or what might be the end of all things?

R.E. Slater
June 16, 2021

BBL1303 1.1: Introduction to Systematic Theology







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Articles Published in Date Order
(newest to oldest)


Describing God's Sovereignty by Love... NOT by Power


A Loss of Faith Doesn't Mean a Loss of Personal Faith...


Christianity in Process - Part 3b, Bowman


Christianity in Process - Part 2b, Swartz


Christianity in Process - 2a, Keller


Christianity in Process - Introduction


A Postmodern Process-Relational Cosmotheology


Jesus, Quantum Cosmology, the Church, and a few Verses


Marjorie Suchocki - The Heart of Process Theology


Reading the Bible from the Eyes of Love


Alfred North Whitehead Quotes


Process Theology and the Apostle's Creed - Part 1


Process Theology and the Many Creeds of the Christian Church - Part 5


Process Theology and the Many Creeds of the Christian Church - Part 4


Process Theology & the Many Creeds of the Christian Church - Part 3


Process Theology and the Many Creeds of the Christian Church - Part 2


Process Theology and the Many Creeds of the Christian Church - Part 1


Why Process Theology is Universal for All Secular and Religious Worldviews


Process Theology 101: Reflections of Classical Theology in a Process World


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Stellar Evolution - Large-Scale Cosmic Filaments in Angular Momentum


Artist's impression of the Doppler shift of a cosmic filament. (AIP/A. Khalatyan/J. Fohlmeister)


Astronomers Just Detected Possibly The
Largest Rotating Structures in The Universe

June 16, 2021


Although the night sky changes very little on human timescales, the Universe is not a static place.

We wheel about in motion around the galactic center. Stars are born, and die in violent explosions. Galaxies collide.

And, for the first time, astronomers have just found evidence that some of the largest structures in the cosmos rotate, on a scale of hundreds of millions of light-years. If validated, it would represent the largest rotating structure ever seen - suggesting that angular momentum can be generated on absolutely mind-blowing scales.

The structure in question is a cosmic filament, a long, cylindrical structure of dark matter, spanning intergalactic space as a sort of bridge between galaxy clusters. These filaments are strands of a vast cosmic web, via which galaxies and star-forming material are channeled into the cluster nodes.

This means galaxies can be found along the filament, too, not just within the clusters. This gives scientists a tool for identifying rotational motion within the filament itself.

"By mapping the motion of galaxies in these huge cosmic superhighways using the Sloan Digital Sky survey - a survey of hundreds of thousands of galaxies - we found a remarkable property of these filaments: they spin," said astrophysicist Peng Wang of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) in Germany.



The filaments are hundreds of millions of light-years in length, but just a few million light-years in diameter. On such large scales, we won't be able to see the galaxies actually moving, but luckily for us, the light of a moving object still gives it away.

It's called Doppler shifting, changes in the wavelength of light depending on whether it's moving towards or away from the viewer. Wavelengths of light from an approaching object will appear to shorten slightly towards the blue end of the spectrum, or blueshift; wavelengths from receding objects will lengthen, or redshift.

By carefully studying the light from galaxies on cosmic filaments and comparing them to each other, astronomers found that galaxies on one side of the filament were redshifted in comparison to the other side. This is exactly what you would expect to see if the galaxies were in vortical motion perpendicular to the filament's spine.

"On these scales the galaxies within them are themselves just specks of dust," explained cosmographer Noam Libeskind of AIP.

"They move on helices or corkscrew-like orbits, circling around the middle of the filament while travelling along it. Such a spin has never been seen before on such enormous scales, and the implication is that there must be an as yet unknown physical mechanism responsible for torquing these objects."

Astronomers get detailed view of Cosmic Web
Oct 4, 2019



Figuring out what that mechanism is could help astronomers figure out how angular momentum is generated in the cosmos. Currently, it's a mystery; in the early Universe, according to our cosmological models, there was no rotation - matter moved from less dense to more dense regions.

One theory, described as tidal torque, suggests the presence of a shearing force might have added a bit of a twist, but we simply don't know enough to even begin to take it seriously in models of cosmic evolution.

Because galaxies are connected and fed by cosmic filaments, these structures play an intimate role in the formation and evolution of galaxies, including their rotation. However, whether the filaments themselves spin had previously only been theorized.

The discovery that they do will help us better understand the emergence of angular momentum in the Universe, and the role the cosmic web plays in regulating it.

"It's fantastic to see this confirmation that intergalactic filaments rotate in the real Universe, as well as in computer simulation," Libeskind said.

The research has been published in Nature Astronomy.


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