PROCESS RELATIONAL
PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY:
INTENSIVE
Monday � Friday 7th
-11th February
IB 04
(Ph. 07 36218900)
Unit Outline
Objectives:
(a) Participants will acquire a
general familiarization with and a critical
appreciation of process relational research
programs in philosophy, ethics, and systematic
or constructive theology in their world-wide
manifestations.
(b) Participants will acquire a
detailed knowledge of process relational
thinking in an area of their own choosing.
Structure
of
the unit
1. Definition
and Historical Background
2. Brief
exposition of the Process-Relational
Metaphysical Vision
3. �God�
and �Evil� in Process-Relational Thought
4.
Creation and Original Sin
5.
Process Relational Trinitarian Theology
6.
Christology, Church
and Sacraments
7.
Eschatology in Process-Relational
Perspective
8.
Intersections with Feminist and
Liberation Theologies
9.
Inter-religious and inter-cultural
dialogue (esp. Buddhism)
10. Process Relational Ecological
Theology
11. Facing up to some of the
problems
All items will be covered though not
all in the same detail.
Teaching/Learning Strategies and
Resources 2005 First Semester /Summer
Intensive
1.
Major input will be over five days Monday
to Friday 7th -11th
February, from 9 a.m. to around 3 p.m. There
will be two short breaks in the morning, a break
for lunch and one short break in the afternoon.
2.
As well as lectures, there will be
opportunity for discussion. After
the first day, there will be an article from the
book of readings to discuss each day.
3.
Depending on the willingness of the
participants and their technical abilities, we
will try to set up an on-line discussion group,
and possibly even try to organize a few on-line
meetings.
4.
Lecture Notes and personal articles and
papers will be available on CD. Most
of the papers are already available off my web
site, at www.mpx.com.au/~gjmoses
.
5.
There will be a hardcopy book of readings
containing basic material supporting class input
and some material for essay writing.
6.
There are copious hardcopy resources in
the
7.
Additionally, the lecturer/co-ordinator
has a variety of written resources collected
over the years, which will be put in a central
place and made available for short-term loan.
See later for details.
8.
The Internet is an excellent resource for
access into world-wide process. Start
with the following: www.processnetwork.org
; www.alfred.north.whitehead.com
; www.ctr4process.org
. This
should give people access to lots of on-line
articles and papers, as well as a knowledge of
most of the major contemporary players.
Method of Assessment doubling as
learning strategies:
Two
essays, of
approximately equal length, overall length and
intensity depending on the level at which the
unit is taken:
1.
The Process Relational Metaphysical
Vision and its consequences for imaging the
Divine, taking account of tsunami�s and such
like, as well as the human propensity for evil.
2.
Process Relational Thought AND (one
of more of the following)
Creation
OR
Philosophy of Education
Original Sin
Psychology
Christology and Soteriology
Physics
Church and Sacraments
the Mind-Body Problem
Feminist Theology
Personal Identity
Eco-Theology
Science-Religion debates
Eschatology
Complexity Theory
Inter-religious dialogue/Buddhism Management
Liberation Theologies
Etc.
Contemporary Spirituality
Etc.
Conceivably, people could meld this
into one long paper, as is common with
Specialized Studies. But
I�d like the first half or so in some form or
other by the end of April (Easter
is too early this year, end of April = April 30th
sounds like a more appropriate date). The
second paper or second half of the one long
paper/final version of the long paper is due
before the end of semester.
Bibliography
Full bibliographical information
will be made available in the unit. The
following is a very, very basic introduction
(one per key person) focussed on Process
Relational Theology, arranged in alphabetical
order:
Bracken, Joseph A.,
S.J. The Triune
Symbol: Persons, Process and Community.
Cobb, John B., Jr.,
and David Ray Griffin. Process
Theology: An Introductory Exposition.
Cobb, John B., Jr.
Christ in a Pluralistic Age. The
Ford, Lewis S. The Lure of
God: A Biblical Background for Process Theism.
Fortress Press,
Hartshorne,
Charles. The
Divine Relativity. 1948.
Keller, Catherine. From a
Broken Web: Separation, Sexism
and the Self. Beacon
Press,
McDaniel, Jay B. Of God and
Pelicans: A Theology of Reverence for Life. Westminster/John
Knox Press,
Mesle, C. Robert. Process
Theology: A Basic Introduction. Chalice
Press,
Ogden, Schubert
Miles. The Reality
of God and Other Essays. Harper and Row,
N.Y., 1977.
Suchocki, Marjorie
Hewitt. God-Christ-Church:
A Practical Guide to Process Theology.. Crossroad,
N.Y., 1982.
Revised version 1989.
Van der Veken, Jan,
editor. God and
Change: Process Thought and the Christian
Doctrine of God.
Whitehead, Alfred
North. Process
and
Reality. Part I and Part V.
Young, Henry James. Hope in
Process: A Theology of Social Pluralism. Fortress
Press,
Process Philosophy
and Theology
Index of Notes and
Personal Papers
In
approximate order of deployment
These will be all
made available on CD. The
articles/papers are already online: see www.mpx.com.au/~gjmoses
, also www.alfred.north.whitehead.com and www.ctr4process.org
.
There
will be a hardcopy of the Unit Outline and the
third item below, the Process Relational
Theology overheads. The input will be structured
around these Process Relational Theology
overheads, with other material inserted as
relevant.
Unit Outline
Bibliography (see Book of Readings
for another one)
File is named: probibr.doc
For
more recent bibliographical information, see www.ctr4process.org
.
Process Relational
Theology: An Outline (prosemprintable2k5.doc)
Introduction to
Process Philosophy (following Hartshorne) (fulpro3r.doc)
�Big
Things from Small Things� (bgsml2k2.doc)
(Philosophy
of Religion overheads � available on line off web site)
Process and Trinity
Notes (trinity1.doc)
�God
and Evil in Process Perspective� (proevilr.doc)
Process Thought and
Human Existence (proche.doc)
�Process
Relational Eco-Theology� (ecotheol2kr1.doc
and ecothohd.htm )
Process Philosophy
and Buddhism (processbuddhism.doc): a starting
bibliography.
�In
Praise of Process Pluralism� (praiseprocess.doc)
�A
Renovated Process Theology, on the other side of
Dupre and Gauchet�: towards a much deeper God. From neworleanslecture.doc
And
article on �Whitehead and Plato� (whitplatr.doc)
Plus Chapters 1-4 of Mesle
draft for book on Process Philosophy. (Ch_1
etc, Ch_2 etc, Ch_3 etc, Ch_4 etc). This
is a counterpart to his little book on Process
Theology. Mesle
is noted for making Process Philosophy and
Theology intelligible to the general reader.
Hardcopy
Resources other than Book of
Readings include the following:
Claremont Sabbatical Papers
(around 1991): in the following folders
Bibliographies
(A) Introductions/Overviews
(B) God and Religion (A large
folder, lots of material, including critique)
(C) Personal Identity
(D) Plato and Whitehead
(E) Japanese/Chinese/Indian
Philosophy
(F) ?
(G) The Compound Individual
Controversy (backup to my article)
(H) Economics
(I) Natural Science
(J) Miscellaneous: mostly
Social and Political, Philosophy and Ecology
(K) Aesthetics
(L) �Thinking about God in
Process Thought and Classical Theism (= Compass
article)
Silver
Anniversary Whitehead Conference
Folder 1: Process
Thought and the Common Good � critique of contemporary economics
and globalism
Folder 2:
Inter-religious and inter-cultural dialogue
Folder 3: Physics,
Maths, First Philosophy, Brains and Minds,
Consciousness and Computers
Folder 4: Theology,
Spirituality and Feminist Theology (including
critique)
Folder 5:
Miscellaneous
Some of the papers
are online, off the CPS website, in the members
only section.
Values philosophy,
Process thought, Marxism, Postmodernism, East
and West, Globalization, Ethics, Education and
Science, Corporate Management. Theology
is downplayed, mostly in the margins � for
obvious reasons.
All in one volume.
Keynote Lectures
Process Theology
Philosophy and
Korean Culture
Feminism and
Ecology
Social Science,
Natural Science
Whitehead,
Religion, Psychology
Education
Philosophy and East
Asian Thought
Australasian
Conferences
Go to www.alfred.north.whitehead.com
, in the on-line journal and
also among the discussion papers.
I have hardcopy of
some of the
Process Studies 1994- present day.