Topic: Restore Historical Consciousness

Presenter: Cliff Cobb

John Cobb’s son, Clifford W. Cobb, is editor-in-chief of American Journal of Economics and Sociology.  [He is also the son whose questioning in the summer of 1969 set John Cobb on the path summarized in his classic, Is It Too Late? A Theology of Ecology (Fortress Press, 2021 edition of editions published in 1972 and 1995)].  At the turn of the secular year, Cliff will share John’s thoughts on the importance of “historical consciousness.” The concept has been important in many of John Cobb’s writings, including in Living Options in Protestant Theology (Westminster, 1962), A Christian Natural Theology (Westminster, 1965; Westminster John Knox, 2007); Christ in a Pluralistic Age (Westminster, 1975); and most recently in a chapter bemoaning “The Fading of Historical Consciousness” in Salvation: Jesus’s Mission and Ours (Process Century Press, 2020).  An article is being developed to explain what John Cobb means by the “Origins and Characteristics” of Historical Consciousness, in which it is compared and contrasted to Scientific Rationalism.  

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