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Each month Dr. John B. Cobb, Jr. answers questions regarding process thought and faith.
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See Dr. Cobb’s answers to questions from 1998-2015 below.
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2015
What is the most important issue now being decided? – March 2015
Does It Make Sense to Identify with Charlie? – February 2015
Hebrew Scriptures – January 2015
2014
Why is process philosophy on the margins? – December 2014
Divine Providence – November 2014
A Meaningful Life – October 2014
Tielhard and Whitehead – September 2014
Wesleyan Theology and Process Theology – August 2014
What Was Whitehead Wrong About? – July 2014
Trinity, Substance, and Process – June 2014
Indwelling Spirit/Christ in process theology – May 2014
Theology, New Atheism, and Modern Scholarship – April 2014
A Process Perspective on Dealing with Anger – February 2014
The Negative Impact of the Trans-Atlantic Partnership – January 2014
2013
Process Theology and Hegelian-influenced Theology – December 2013
Process Christians and the Nicene Creed – November 2013
Most Influential Students – October 2013
Multiple Religious Belonging – September 2013
Sacrificial Thinking – August 2013
Historical Jesus or Cosmic Christ – July 2013
World-Oriented Mysticism – June 2013
No One Process Church – April 2013
Tao and Creativity – March 2013
Preferential Option and Process – February 2013
Obama Second Term – January 2013
Word and Wordless Prayer – December 2012
Relativity of Truth or the Truth of Relativity? – November 2012
Is There One Normative Process Theology? – October 2012
Beyond Literal Truth and Mere Metaphor – September 2012
Desperate Times Call for Whiteheadian Measures – August 2012
Process Thought’s Contribution to Societal Change – June 2012
How do Schleiermacher and Process relate? – May 2012
Is Process Theology too Western? – April 2012
Is Whitehead’s Philosophy Atomistic? – March 2012
Process and Post-Structuralism – February 2012
God as the Power of the Future – January 2012
2011
Neuroscience and Physical Determinism – December 2011
How does Process understand Tillich’s “virtues”? – November 2011
How can grace operate in a religiously pluralist world? – October 2011
Is Bill McKibben right? – September 2011
Thomas Jefferson & the Bible – August 2011
Christian faith watered down? – July 2011
Tax spending by Governments – June 2011
Theologies and the Persistence of Racism – May 2011
Is it possible to be a Wesleyan and a Process thinker? – April 2011
Is the Universe a Giant Information Process? – March 2011
Process Theology & Buddhism – February 2011
Process Thought & Current Trends in Physics – January 2011
2010
Does God Have the Power to Protect Us? – December 2010
Process Theology & Teen Suicide Prevention – November 2010
Process Philosophy & Economic Theory – October 2010
Secularizing Christianity – September 2010
God, the Great Artist – August 2010
Is Process Theology Postmodern? – June 2010
Whitehead and Freud’s Theory of Eros (Love) & Thanatos (Death) – March 2010
Practical Implications of Process for Church Life – February 2010
Confidence in Progress – January 2010
2009
Israel/Palestine Two-State Solution – December 2009
Divine Guidance – November 2009
9/11 and Process Theology – October 2009
Where is God Not in War? – August 2009
Israel and Palestine – July 2009
Study Process Theology First – June 2009
Secular or Religious? – May 2009
Should We Try To Get The Economy Back on Track? – April 2009
Process & the Light/ Dark Dichotomy – March 2009
Jews Have a Divine Right to the Land of Israel? – February 2009
Can We Be Confident of Progress? – January 2009
2008
Process Theology & Joe Sixpack – December 2008
Process Theology, Neo-Liberalism, and the Financial Meltdown – November 2008
Financial Crisis, Cobb on the Wall Street – October 2008
Science Support Belief in God? – September 2008
Process Theology Related to Progressive Christianity – August 2008
Tillich and Whitehead – July 2008
Interpreting John 14:8 “No one comes to the Father…” – June 2008
Interpreting Jesus: Natural or Supernatural Being? – April 2008
Polkinghorn Response – March 2008
Process & 20th century Theology – February 2008
Process Theology and Islam – January 2008
2007
Miracles and Mental Influence – December 2007
Intercessory Prayer – November 2007
Aesthetic as a Process Value – October 2007
Assurance and the Experience of God – September 2007
Christians & Metaphysics – August 2007
Has Process Theology Backed The Wrong Horse? – July 2007
Hartshorne and the Chicago School – June 2007
Bodily Resurrection – May 2007
Who is a Whiteheadian? – March 2007
Inconvenient Truths – February 2007
Whitehead’s Distinction in Relation to Process Theologians – January 2007
2006
Global Warming – December 2006
Ethnic Diversity in Churches/Persons-in-Community – October 2006
Whitehead and Buddhism – August 2006
Synthesis of Prehended Objects – July 2006
Eastern Orthodox & Process – March 2006
2005
Creativity and Initial Aim – December 2005
Prehension & the Self – November 2005
Intelligent Design – October 2005
Goddess Theology – August 2005
Does God Have a Serial Existence? – June 2005
Initial Aim and “Call” – May 2005
Marriage Covenant & Process – April 2005
Process & Openness – March 2005
Liberals vs. Evangelicals & Process – February 2005
Salvation after Death? – January 2005
2004
Is There a Process Eschatology? – December 2004
Evil & Sin Revisited – November 2004
Evangelism & Mission – October 2004
Animal Rights (2) – September 2004
Young-Earth Creationism? – February 2004
Survival of the Fittest? – January 2004
2003
Where is the Past? – August 2003
Divine Intervention – May 2003
Immanent or Transcendent? – January 2003
2002
Divine Activity – December 2002
Religious Experience – November 2002
Intrinsic Value – October 2002
God & Possibility – September 2002
Progressive Christianity – August 2002
Is God Incomplete? – July 2002
Process & Scripture – June 2002
Process Spirituality – March 2002
Divine Omnipotence – February 2002
Just War Theory – January 2002
2001
God & Pop Culture – August 2001
God & Change Pt. 2 – July 2001
Openness Theology – February 2001
2000
Animal Rights (1) – October 2000
1999
Life after Death – October 1999
God & Change Pt. 1 – September 1999
Creation from Nothing? – July 1999
Future of the church – May 1999
Biblical Interpretation – March 1999
Divine Inspiration – January 1999
1998
Christianity & Culture – October 1998