Friday, November 17, 2023

The Collected Papers of Process II - of Philosopher & Theologian Andrew M. Davis


The Collected Papers of Process II
Philosopher & Theologian Andrew M. Davis

Program Director, The Center for Process Studies


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PAPERS View PDF's here

"Possibility, Value and Mind: The Entangled Heart of Keith Ward's Philosophical Theology."

"On Helping God By Becoming God."

"God, Value and Ontological Gratitude: On the Axiological Foundations of Worship"

"Whiteheadian Cosmology Mediating Newton and Plato"

"The Emergence of Whitehead's God"

"Methodological Trajectories in Process Theology"

"Immortalities in Process Perspective: Hartshorne, Suchocki, Griffin, Ford"

"Griffin, Loomer and Process Theodicy"

"God and Creativity in Whitehead's Philosophy"

"Transcendence and Immanence as Basic Comparative Categories in Islam and Hinduism"

"Some Pluralistic Resources in the World's Religious Traditions: Judaism, Christianity, Jainism, Sikhism"

"Hinduism and Buddhism in Basic Comparative Perspective"

"Methodological Approaches in Comparative Religion: Cantwell Smith, Ward, Bracken, Thatamanil"

"Comparative Resources Approaching Buddhist-Christian Ultimacy: Knitter, Abe, Cobb, Panikkar"

"The Integrative Coherence of Divine Mentality in Griffin and Ward"

"Platonic 'Forms,' Divine 'Ideas' and the Christian Inheritance of Middle Platonism"

"From Dangerous Idea to Gift: The Significance of Evolution for God in Some Modern Theologies"

"Some Questions and Themes in the Theology of Creation"

"Anatheism and the 'Panentheistic Turn'"

"Christian Natural Theology in Cobb and McGrath"

"Theodicy: The Problem Evil and Three Modern "Solutions" in Hick, Plantinga and Griffin"

"Some Historical Approaches of Atheism: Functionalism, Logical Positivism, Existentialism, Cognitive-Evolutionary"

"Religious Pluralism in Hick, Knitter, Heim and Griffin/Cobb"

"Non-Reductive Theories of Religion: James, Whitehead, Otto, Eliade"

"Arguments for God and Divine Attributes: A Select Survey"

"A Few Key Questions in Science and Religion"

"Emerging From the Silence: FASPE in Personal Retrospect"

"Aliens Not So Alien: Platonic Entities, Divine Realities and Shared Extraterrestrial Values"

"Divine Wilder/ness: Nature, Panentheism and Eco-Theological Ethics"

"The Divine 'Whence' of Absolute Dependence: Schleiermacher and the Panentheist Tradition"

"The Lure of What Could Be: Divine-Human Entanglements in Potentiality, Actuality and Mentality"

"Crossing the 'Religious-Mystical Bridge' into God: Panentheism, Pluralism and Inter-Experiential Dialogue"

"Evil, Suffering and the Anatheistic Worth of Panentheism"

"God Was in Christ: Whitehead and Process Christology"

"Ambiguities in Panentheism: Definitions, Distinctions and Demarcations"

"A Whirlwind of Theodicies: A Closer Look at Plato, Hick and Swinburne"

"Zarathustra: Ideological Innovations of an Iranian Revolutionary"

"Transcendent and Immanent Trajectories in Islam and Hinduism"

"Hinduism and Buddhism in Comparative Perspective"

"To Critique and Rescue: The Aim of Metaphysics and the Question of Auschwitz in Adorno and Whitehead"

"The Wall Between Them: 'Misplaced Concreteness' in Israel-Palestine"

"Evil, Power and Divine Butterflies"

"The State of Nature in Hobbes, Locke & Rousseau"

"The Riddle of God and Man"

"Nature, History and the Question of Teleology"

"God, Power and the Shadow side of Creation ex nihilo"

"Losses of Greek Thought in the Meeting of Athens and Jerusalem"

"Qur'anic Refinements to Biblical Anthropomorphism: A Comparative Exposition"














Andrew Davis - Process Theology:
The Global Philosophy of Religion Project






Elvi Bjorkquist - Process Thought, Aesthetic Qualities, and Beyond








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Process Thought, Aesthetic Qualities, and Beyond
Elvi Bjorkquist, Artist, Graphic Designer,
and Graduate of the Cobb Institute Certificate Program

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Brief Bio
  • Former Owner/Principal at Elvi Design Group
  • Former Owner at Cultural Expeditions, inc.
  • Studied M.div. & M.A. Religion/philosophy at Iliff School of Theology, Denver
  • Lives in Denver, Color
Papers

Books
I will show the connection between Art and Process thought of Whitehead. Whitehead also believes that aesthetic apprehension is complementary to scientific apprehension and helps to complete it. He believes that deeply felt intuitions highlight and illumines nature and that there are multiple ways of knowing and can be jointly affirmed and harmonized. Thinking is actually a form of feeling; aesthetic wisdom and rational inquiry are complementary. Both can be contexts in which people discover higher ideals in which to live and give a sense for the mystery and beauty of the universe, it becomes a means to the end of cultural transformation. Art can play a part in a direct interaction of Asian texts like the Upanishads, Bhagavadgita, the Buddhist scriptures, and the Taoist canon with the Christian biblical text. This education explores forms that enliven the minds and hearts of students leading them to healthy cultural transformation. This leads to everyone listening to each other in a spirit of respect and humility, and learn from each other with a willingness to be changed themselves.


Inspire Philosophy & Process Art - Kids Island Nursery


Open Horizons - Process Thought & Spiritual Decentering


What is process philosophy and who is Alfred North Whitehead?


Saatchi Art


Saatchi Art


Andrew Davis - The Becomingness of Cosmology








The Meeting of Alfred North Whitehead and Steven J. Dick on God, Extraterrestrial Life, and Cosmic Destiny

In Metaphysics of Exo-Life, Andrew M. Davis offers a constructive philosophical response to historian Steven J. Dick’s “naturalistic cosmotheology” from within the process metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead. Davis articulates how Dick’s six core principles of cosmotheology, developed over the last two decades, can be substantially deepened when inversely approached through Whitehead’s organic metaphysics. Detailing how Whitehead’s aesthetic cosmotheological realism addresses significant metaphysical problems wedded to Dick’s proposal, Davis develops six alternative principles that include Dick’s naturalistic intuitions, but also transcend key conceptual and explanatory limitations of his antirealist cosmotheology. The result is a deeper Whiteheadian cosmotheology in a universe pervaded with life, mind, and meaning.
In Appendix A, Davis makes a case for the inclusion of process theology in current and future discussions of God and extraterrestrial life by reviewing a variety of neglected statements made by past and present process philosophers and theologians, including core thematic affirmations that emerge. Appendix B republishes Lewis S. Ford’s pioneering 1968 article “Theological Reflections on Extraterrestrial Life” as the first sustained consideration of the topic from the perspective of process philosophy and theology.



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Andrew David - Process Cosmology









Andrew David - Process Cosmology


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This book newly articulates the international and interdisciplinary reach of Whitehead's organic process cosmology for a variety of topics across science and philosophy, and in dialogue with a variety of historical and contemporary voices.
Integrating Whitehead's thought with the insights of Bergson, James, Pierce, Merleau-Ponty, Descola, Fuchs, Hofmann, Grof and many others, contributors from around the world reveal the relevance of process philosophy to physics, cosmology, astrobiology, ecology, metaphysics, aesthetics, psychedelics, and religion.
A global collection, this book expresses multivocal possibilities for the development of process cosmology after Whitehead.


Andrew David - Process Cosmology