Sunday, March 8, 2026

The Relevancy22 Processual Architecture Project for Integrating Processual Structures



A Processual Framework for Understanding
Reality, Religion, and Meaning

The Relevancy22 Processual Architecture
Project for Integrating Processual Structures

~ A ROUGH DRAFT OUTLINE FOR FUTURE SERIES EXPLORATIONS ~

by R.E. Slater & ChatGPT

Beginning in the summer of 2025 I began assembling a composite series of essays exploring how the human spirit has historically approached faith, meaning, and uncertainty. These essays attempt to trace the long arc of religious consciousness from humanity’s earliest spiritual expressions to the institutionalized - and often politicized - religions of the modern world.

Understanding this development requires situating religion within the broader evolution of human culture. Faith traditions did not emerge in isolation but formed gradually within changing social, political, intellectual, and cosmological frameworks. The history of religion is therefore inseparable from the history of humanity itself.

Within this broader investigation I am proposing several guiding ideas intended to help rethink the structure of contemporary faith. Central among these is the possibility of grounding discussions of reality, God, and faith within a process-based philosophical framework. Such a framework allows theology to respond more openly to the discoveries of many modern disciplines including the quantum sciences, archaeology, paleontology, psychology, sociology, economics, and political theory.

Process philosophy is especially valuable because of its integrative scope. It provides a conceptual environment capable of holding together scientific insight, philosophical reflection, and theological imagination within a single evolving vision of reality. For this reason a major portion of this project explores reality and cosmology themselves as dynamic processes rather than static structures.

If reality itself is fundamentally dynamic, then this insight carries important implications for how we understand identity, meaning, purpose, and our responsibilities toward one another.

With respect to the Christian tradition specifically, renewed attention must also be given to the Bible - how it emerged, how it has been interpreted, and how it continues to function within modern religious communities. Too often Scripture has been used as a tool of cultural preservation or ideological control rather than as a witness to humanity’s evolving encounter with the sacred.

My own background lies deeply within evangelical Christianity and I recognize many of the strengths that tradition contributed to my faith formation. Yet it also appears increasingly clear that many of its theological frameworks have reached the limits of their historical usefulness. The present work therefore proposes that Christianity may benefit from re-articulation within a process-based theological vision - one that remains faithful to the central themes of the tradition while allowing them to grow beyond the cultural limitations that shaped their earlier expressions.

For this reason the essays that follow revisit the cultural milieus in which religious ideas emerged and evolved. By examining the historical landscapes in which faith developed we may better understand how religious imagination unfolds through time and how it might continue to evolve into the future.


R. E. Slater
March 8, 2026

~ Each Series of Essays can be located in the Appendix below ~


THE RELEVANCY22 PROJECT STRUCTURE
The overall project will unfold across several major interconnected series. Each series addresses a different layer of the relationship between cosmos, culture, religion, and meaning.
SERIES I - Reality and Cosmology

A Processual Exploration of the Universe

This series investigates the nature of reality itself through the lenses of science, philosophy, and theology.

Topics include:

  • process metaphysics
  • quantum fields and cosmic harmonics
  • consciousness and relational existence
  • divine participation in an evolving universe
  • panpsychism and panentheism
  • cosmological emergence and creative novelty

This series provides the metaphysical foundation for the rest of the project.

If reality itself is processual, then religion must be understood as emerging from within that same process.

SERIES II - The Evolution of Worship and Religion

How Faith Has Traveled Through the Millennia

This completed series has traced the long development of religious consciousness within human history.

Religion is examined not as a static deposit but as an evolving cultural phenomenon shaped by human experience and imagination.



SERIES III - The Historical Development of Early Christianity

c. 200 BCE – 160 CE

This series will examine the religious, political, and philosophical environment from which Christianity emerged. Here, the early Jesus movement will be explored within the broader world of Second Temple Judaism, Greco-Roman culture, and Mediterranean religious traditions.

It will also examine the collapse of traditional religious authority in the modern world and explores the possibility of reconstructing faith within a process-based framework.

SERIES IV - Reconstructing Faith & Human Meaning

Why Should I Care? Series

This series translates the philosophical and theological insights of the larger project into questions of everyday human life.

Examples include:

  • Why should I care about philosophy?
  • Why should I care about meaning and purpose?
  • Why should I care about spirituality?
  • Why should I care about theology?

This series functions as the public-facing dimension of the project, connecting large philosophical ideas to lived human experience.

SERIES STRUCTURAL SUMMARY

Cosmos → Culture → Christianity → Reconstruction → Life

The Relevancy22 project follows a coherent intellectual progression:

1 - Metaphysics - Reality and Cosmology:
  • What is reality?
  • What kind of universe do we live in?
  • Is the cosmos static or evolving?
  • How do consciousness, matter, and time interact?
2 - Theology - Evolution of Religion
  • Prehistory of Faith: Animism --> Polytheism --> Henotheism --> Monotheism
  • Axial Age Transformations
  • Age of Universal Religions
3 - Religion - Evolution of Historical Christianity
  • Second Temple Judaism
  • Jesus Movement
  • Early Christian Communities
  • Gnostic & Orthodox Developments
  • Formation of Scripture & Doctrine Debates
4A - Reconstructing Faith
  • Process Theology
  • Metamodern Faith
  • Religion Beyond Dogma
  • Faith without coercion
  • Relational theology
  • Post-dogmatic Christianity
  • Religion in a scientific age
4B - Human Meaning - Why Should I Care?
  • Meaning
  • Ethics
  • Society
  • Human Flourishing


COSMOS → CULTURE → CHRISTIANITY →

FAITH RECONSTRUCTION → VALUATIVE LIVING

Main Index to All Website Indexes: Index - Index to All Indexes


Reality and Cosmology Series
A Processual Exploration of the Universe

Complete Index Listings:


REFERENCE ARTICLES

The Metaphysics of Process Realism - "What Is Reality?"

"What is Embodied Process Realism?"

The Ontology of Process Realism - Studies in cosmology, evolution, consciousness
Cosmology - Gravity, Coherence, and the Real (1)
Cosmology - The Rise of Relational Physics (2)
Ontology and Embodied Process Realism (3)
The Interiority of Reality (4)
Persistence, Continuity, and Coherence of Becoming (5)
Process Consciousness and the Failure of Spatial Ontology
A Cosmic Timeline - From Cosmic Energy to Cosmic Meaning (6)
The Ontology of Reality - Towards Embodied Process Realism (7)
The Ontology of Identity - How Creation, Humanity and God found Their Voice (8)
Why Consciousness Requires a New Ontology
Responding to Fine-Tuning & Intelligent Life Arguments
Evolutionary Process Biology, Consciousness, and a Relational Ontology
Consciousness Resources - Mind-at-Large CPS Project
Consciousness, Panpsychism, and Ontological Priority
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The Ontology of a Process Cosmology - "What Kind of Universe Do We Live In?"
What Kind of Universe Do We Live In? - Cosmology and Consciousness (1)
The Universe as Divine Process - From a Universe of Value to Its Theology (4) 



THE EVOLUTION OF WORSHIP AND RELIGION
"How Has Faith Travelled Through the Millennia?"

The Evolution of Worship & Religion Series


The Historical Development of Early Christianity
(200 BCE - 160 CE)

~ This series is incomplete and will continue to be developed ~


Of Fantasy, Belief, and Conjecture
The Suffering Servant
How to Read Variants and Manuscripts
Faith After Certainity - From Atheism to Faith

A Review of Greek Atheism
Faith After Certainty


Reconstructing Faith & Human Meaning
"Why Should I Care?" Series

~ This series has not yet begun and will be developed later this year. DV ~

Go here for all Index Listings:

Ethics & Morality
Process Religions
Process Christianity
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