The Collected Papers of Process I
Philosopher & Theologian Andrew M. Davis
Program Director, The Center for Process Studies
Biography
Andrew M. Davis is a philosopher, theologian and scholar of world religions. He is Program Director for the Center for Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology.
A native of northern California, he was born and raised among the towering redwoods of Occidental and the meandering woodlands of Santa Rosa’s Bennett Valley. It was out these natural settings that his passion for the questions of philosophy, theology and religion first emerged.
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. An educator and advocate of cross-cultural knowledge and religious literacy, his studies have led him to a variety of religious contexts and communities around the world, including India, Israel-Palestine, and Europe.
He received the 2013 Award for Excellence in Biblical Studies, the 2017 fellowship with FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics) and the 2020 Presidential Award for Academic Excellence. He was recently nominated and elected as a fellow for the International Society of Science and Religion (ISSR).
He is a poet, aphorist and author or editor of several books including:
- How I Found God in Everyone and Everywhere: An Anthology of Spiritual Memoirs (2018);
- Propositions in the Making: Experiments in a Whiteheadian Laboratory (2019);
- Depths as Yet Unspoken: Whiteheadian Excursions in Mysticism, Multiplicity, and Divinity (2020);
- Mind, Value, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy (2020, nominated for the ISSR 2022 Book Prize);
- Nature In Process: Organic Proposals in Philosophy, Society and Religion (2022);
- Process Cosmology: New Integrations in Science and Philosophy (2022).
His Curricular Supervisors were: Philip Clayton, Roland Faber, and Daniel A. Dombrowski
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