Jay McDaniel - Interview with Process Philosopher Andrew Davis

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Key Questions for Process Philosophy & Theology:

An Interview with Andrew Davis

by Jay McDaniel, Open Horizons

In this new video series, process philosopher and theologian Andrew Davis responds to questions from Robert Lawrence Kuhn of Closer to Truth (CTT), giving an excellent overview to many important aspects of process thinking.

Andrew explores topics such as the theology of Alfred North Whitehead, process panentheism, mystical experience, theodicy, process models of God's creative act(s), God's relationship to scientific laws, universal salvation, life after death, and much more.

0:57 - Are Process Theologians Panentheists?

2:11 - How Do Process Theologians Think About Divine Knowledge, Power and Evil?

2:36 - What Does Process Theology Think About Consciousness in God and World?

1:05 - How Do Process Theologians Think About Life After Death?

Click here for the full playlist of videos of Andrew's answers. You can save this playlist on YouTube for convenient future access.

The original interview, produced in collaboration with the Global Philosophy of Religion Project at the University of Birmingham, can be seen in full on the Closer to Truth YouTube channel.

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Andrew M. Davis is a philosopher, theologian, scholar of world religions, and the Program Director at the Center for Process Studies. He holds B.A. in Philosophy and Theology, an M.A. in Interreligious Studies, and a Ph.D. in Religion and Process Philosophy from Claremont School of Theology (CST). He is a poet, aphorist and author or editor of four books including How I Found God in Everyone and Everywhere: An Anthology of Spiritual Memoirs (2018, with Philip Clayton); Propositions in the Making: Experiments in a Whiteheadian Laboratory (2019, with Roland Faber and Michael Halewood); Depths as Yet Unspoken: Whiteheadian Excursions in Mysticism, Multiplicity, and Divinity (2020, with Roland Faber); and Mind, Value, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy (Lexington). For more about Andrew’s work and research interests, visit his website at andrewmdavis.info