process
TagChaosmic Process Theology: Deleuze and Whitehead
by Austin Roberts
In recent years, I have become interested in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. What initially attracted me to his work was discovering that Deleuze considered Whitehead to be “the last great Anglo-American philosopher” of the 20th century, calling his magnum opus Process and R..
Snow Prints and Free Determinism
by Charles Bowie
It’s early January and the snow is here. School is cancelled and I’m just here with my dog watching the snow fall. Ahhhh, but I know my boy is going to have to go out soon, so I guess I’ll get my gear and get ready to traverse this weather.
Out in the snow, I’m bundled up pretty..
The Spirituality of Bernie Sanders
by Austin Roberts
In an interview with the Washington Post this week, Bernie Sanders opened up about the spirituality that informs his politics. His comments, although brief, were provocative enough to spark my theological curiosity. He rarely discusses topics like God or religion, preferring to ..
Process Theology or Process Yoga? Part 3b of 3
by Darren Iammarino,
Point 4: (How Do We Practice Process Yoga?) If there are multiple religious ultimates—so more than just God—then there are multiple pathways of salvation or perhaps, one must trod all of these paths. It means we may need meditation as much as we need prayer. However, what n..
A Process Christmas
by Carolyn Roncolato
The standard Christmas story- preached from pulpits, performed in pageants, colored on cards, and sung in songs- depicts Jesus as some sort of perfect God baby- “the cattle are lowing, the baby awakes, but little lord Jesus no crying he makes.” Christian loyalty to Greek ph..
Process Theology or Process Yoga? Part 3a of 3
by Darren Iammarino
Point 3: (Too Christian) There is no good reason why Process thought ought to be so tightly linked to Christianity. In fact, all this has achieved is confusion and a dilution of the greatness of the Christian tradition and the Process tradition. If you keep Process under the..
Process Theology or Process Yoga? Part 2 of 3
by Darren Iammarino
Point 2 (Too Academic): My primary concern with this second article is to suggest possibilities for moving process thought forward. This brings us to point number 2; for a listing of the four points, please refer to the previous blog post in this series: Process Theology or ..
IN MEMORY
by Charles Bowie
On August 24, 2015, I participated in a memorial for Quentin Holt. He was my friend, little brother, and my barber.
This reflection reminds me of how process theology has provided me with a framework for making some sense of living in the world; some sense of the loss of lov..
CREATIVITY AND PROCESS
by Charles Bowie
God works with the world as it is in order to bring it where it can be. – Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, In God’s Presence: Theological Reflections on Prayer, 18.
This month I want to reflect on the above excerpt from Marjorie Suchocki’s Theological Reflections on Prayer. This text w..