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Rethinking Process Theology and Religious Pluralism Through the Lens of Divine Omnipresence
In this five-session course, students will explore the question of religious pluralism and consider what difference a process understanding of divine omnipresence and the centrality of compassion in all major religions can make to how one develops a Christian theology.
Rethinking Process Theology and Religious Pluralism Through the Lens of Divine Omnipresence
In this five-session course, students will explore the question of religious pluralism and consider what difference a process understanding of divine omnipresence and the centrality of compassion in all major religions can make to how one develops a Christian theology.
Rethinking Process Theology and Religious Pluralism Through the Lens of Divine Omnipresence
In this five-session course, students will explore the question of religious pluralism and consider what difference a process understanding of divine omnipresence and the centrality of compassion in all major religions can make to how one develops a Christian theology.
Rethinking Process Theology and Religious Pluralism Through the Lens of Divine Omnipresence
In this five-session course, students will explore the question of religious pluralism and consider what difference a process understanding of divine omnipresence and the centrality of compassion in all major religions can make to how one develops a Christian theology.
Process Pop-Up: Reviving Christian Process Theology
Believing there is good news of Jesus beyond the academy, Dr. Epperly will show how Christian process theology must join its theological vision with spiritual practices of healing & wholeness, integration of contemplation and action, and a rediscovery of an affirmative vision of Jesus.
Process Pop-Up: Spirituality, Psychedelics, and Process Thought
Drawing from his own deeply moving personal journey through the early death of his father and his quest for sobriety, in this event, John Buchanan, Ph.D. will introduce topics from his 2022 book, Processing Reality: Finding Meaning in Death, Psychedelics, and Sobriety.
Process Pop-Up: The Not-Yet God and the Relational Whole
The new science, especially quantum physics, has changed our understanding of space, time and matter; hence it raises new questions on the meaning of God. In this Pop-Up, we'll discuss llia Delio's latest book, "The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole."
Process Pop-Up: A Beautiful Community & Its Economic Adventure
If capitalism doesn’t work for people and the environment, what does work? Capital itself may not be the problem, but only in the way it is regulated. In this process pop-up a different approach to capital, following Herman Daly, John Cobb, and several related thinkers, is played out in the practical workings of an imaginary community. Is such a community feasible, and who would want to become a member? Kent Myers will explore these questions and present a new economic vision for ecological civilization.
Free
Process Pop-Up: Process, Pluralism, and Respecting Diverse Religious Ultimates
In this event, LoPresti will share key ideas from his book to describe a “meta-theology” of world religions, arguing that both Western and non-Western traditions are helpful. He’ll draw from John B. Cobb’s Whiteheadian “deep religious pluralism” as well as South Asian philosophy, Western analytic philosophy, and the writings of Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI).
Process Pop-Up: Anthropogenic Climate Change is Threatening Civilization and Our Common Home
In this pop-up, Evaggelos Vallianatos will offer an introduction to the history and dangers of climate change, and argue that we need to heed the call of Pope Francis to organize a movement of resistance and change to the ceaseless use of fossil fuels causing global warming.
Free
Process Pop-Up: Yoga, Experience, and the Vagus Nerve
In this pop-up, Leslie King will introduce simple chair yoga movements or asanas and each participant will learn more about their range of movement and how yogic practices best make sense for the body.
Process Pop-Up: Process Philosophy & Design
In this pop-up, William Wilding and Matt Segall will explore the lack of philosophy in general and process philosophy in particular in design. In so doing, they ask what design is, why techno-rationalism continues to dominate it, and how process relational thinkers can reshape design science and education.
Free
Process Pop-Up: Pasts and Futures of Islamic Process Theology
In this Pop-Up, Jared Morningstar will present Islamic process theologies, overviewing resonances between existing Muslim philosophies and cosmologies with contemporary process perspectives, and also exploring the emerging forms of explicit Islamic process theologies.
Free
Process Pop-Up: Faith & Feeling
In both process thought and Schleiermacher’s philosophy, the essence of existence is not lifeless matter or dogmatic precepts. Rather, it is lived experience. In this lived experience, we are interconnected both as human beings and in fellowship with the Divine. In this Pop-Up, Chad Bahl will explore faith and feeling through the lens of Schleiermacher and Whitehead.
Free
Process Pop-Up: From Amipotence to All-Encompassing Mercy: Integrating Oord’s Theology of Love into the Islamic Tradition
Drawing from Thomas Jay Oord’s work as well as his own scholarship, Dr. Adis Duderija will guide participants through the theological landscape, examining both the obstacles and opportunities for integrating amipotence within the Islamic interpretive tradition. We’ll delve into how we can reframe our understanding of the Qur'an and its portrayal of God's mercy, emphasizing that divine love and mercy are not just attributes but the essence of God’s nature.
Free