news, events, and announcements...

New Endowed Chair in Process Theology (Jan 19, 2010)
The Center of Process Studies reached another significant milestone this week as Claremont School of Theology announced the establishment of an endowed chair in honor of John B. Cobb, Jr., thanks to a generous pledge from Rev. Dr. Mary Ellen Kilsby of Long Beach, Calif. The chair will be named the “Kilsby Family and John B. Cobb, Jr., Chair in Process Theology.” [read more]

In Memory of Charles Birch (January 2010)
Charles Birch, a renowned Australian biologist and philosopher, died on December 19, 2009, at the age of 91. He was among the first 20th-century thinkers to creatively blend the insights of science and religion and an early advocate of environmental protection. He collaborated with John Cobb on The Liberation of Life. [read more].

New PhD in Process Studies (September 2009)
It is with great pleasure that we are able to announce that the responsible accreditation agencies have granted Claremont School of Theology approval to install a new Ph.D. program in Religion with a concentration in Process Studies. The purpose of the new Ph.D. program in Process Studies is to train future leaders in process-relational approaches to the study of ecology, culture, and religion today; to address key areas of debate that arise at the intersection of religion, culture, and nature; and to provide academic leaders, religious leaders, and leaders in society with the tools necessary for understanding interconnections between ecology, culture, and religion in this postmodern and pluralistic world. [read more].

The Center for Process Studies is a faculty center of the Claremont School of Theology in association with the School of Religion at Claremont Graduate University. more information

recent publications...

• Process Studies: 38.1 (Spring-Summer 2009)
  published Aug 2009
• Process Perspectives: 32.2 (Fall 2009)
  published Nov 2009
• Process Studies Supplements
• Issue 14 (2009) (published Nov 2009)
  A Commentary on Chapter Ten of Science and The Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead, by Eric Weiss
• Issue 13 (2009) (published Aug 2009)
  The Age of Immanence: Whiteheadian Metaphysics from a Farrerian Point of View, by Simon Smith
• Seminar Papers: 31.2 (Fall 2008)
  
• "Reintroducing Teleology in Scientific Explanation: A Whiteheadian Account of the Ontogeny of Organisms," by Spyridon Koutroufinis
• "The Perspectivity of Feeling: Process Panpsychism and the Explanatory Gap," Nathaniel Barrett

• God Beyond Orthodoxy: Process Theology for the 21st Century, by Philip Clayton (9/9/08)
• Science and Soul, an interview with Charles Birch
• "An Open and Relational Theory of Divine Power," by Thomas Oord

• "Topics in Process Theism," by John Cobb
• "Christian Themes from a Process Perspective," by John Cobb
• "Judaism and Process Theology" and other podcasts, by Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson
• "Reintroducing Teleology in Scientific Explanation," by Spyridon Koutroufinis