Charles Hartshorne: Secondary Bibliography of Dissertations and Theses

Altonaga, Francisco A.  “An Exploration of Charles Hartshorne’s View of Divine Omnipotence in the Context of the Problem of Evil:  Uncovering the Aesthetic Venture of God in Process.”  PhD. Dissertation.  De La Salle University, Manila, 2002.  

Baker, J. R.  "A Critical Analysis of Selected Contemporary American Christologies."  Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1969.

Barnes, Michael. "Responsive and Unresponsive Deity:Thc Religious Character of' Pantheism and Classical Theism According to Charles Hartshorne." Ph.D Dissertation, Marquette University, 1976.

Basinger, Randall George. "Divine Providence: A Comparison of' Classical and Process Theism.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Northwestern University, 1979.

Baylis, Albert Henry.  "The Doctrine of God in Process Theology.”  Ph.D. Dissertation, Dallas Theological Seminary, 1974.

Broadnax, Reginald David.  “The category of freedom in the thought of Charles Hartshorne.”  PhD Diss., Northwestern University, 2003.

Brown, D.  "God and Process: A Study of the Systematic Theological Alternatives in the Process Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead."  Ph.D. Dissertation, Claremont Graduate School, 1964.

Burkle, H. R. "God's Relation to the World: The Issues Be­tween St. Thomas Aquinas and Charles Hartshorne." Ph.D. Disser­tation, Yale University, 1964.

Cavanaugh, R. R.  “Toward a Contemporary Construct of Providence: An Analysis of the Construct of Providence in the Systematic Theology of Paul Tillich and the Neoclassical Metaphysics of Charles Hartshorne." Ph.D. Dissertation, Graduate Theological Union, 1968.

Chapell, Vere Claiborne. "The Philosophy of'Process."  Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1958.

Clark, R. J. "Some Defining Aspects of the Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne and their Implications for Constructive Theology." B.D. Thesis, Federated Theological Faculty of the University of Chicago, 1956.

Clark, R. J. "An Inquiry into the Criticisms of Metaphysics by Analytical Philosophers as they bear upon the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne: A Study in Philosophical Theology." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chi­cago Divinity School, 1962.

Clarke, B. L. "An Approach to the Problem of Langivive and Natural Theory." Ph.D. Dissertation, Emory University, 1961.

Connelly, R. J. "Negative Prehensions in Whitehead."  Ph.D. Disser­tation, St. Louis University, 1970.

Cooper, B. "The Idea of God: A Whiteheadian Critique of Thomas Aquinas' Concept of God." Ph.D. Dissertation, Union Theo­logical Seminary, 1968.

Craighead, H. A., Jr. "Process and Being: The Concept of God in the Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne and Paul Til­lich." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas, 1970.

Dallen, J. 'Process as Foundation: An Investigation of the Thought of Charles Hartshorne in Relation to Dogmatic Abso­lutes."  M.A. Thesis, Catholic University of America, 1969.

Diehl, David Waring.  "Divine Omniscience in the Thought of'Charles Hartshorne and Cornelius Van Til: A Systematic Comparative Study." Ph.D. Dissertation, Hartford Seminary Foundation, 1978.

Dugan, D. O. "The Gratuity of the Creative Act: A White­headian View." Ph.D. Dissertation, Vanderbilt University, 1972.

Durham, Ronald Oatis. "Process Thought and Theodicy: A Critique.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Rice University, 1975.

Elmore, J. E. "The Theme of the Suffering God in the Thought of Nicholas Berdyeav, Charles Hartshorne, and Reinhold Niebuhr." Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1963.

Fjellman, Carl. "Process Theology." Ph.D. Dissertation, Drew Univcrsity, 1955.

Fost, F. F. "The Philosophical Theology of Charles Harts­home: An Analysis and Critique of the Categories of Dipolar Theism." Ph.D. Dissertation, Claremont Graduate School, 1964.

Fowler, D. R. "God the Creator: An Interpretation of Robert C. Neville's Doctrine of God." M.A. thesis, Claremont Gradu­ate School, 1971.

Fox, Marv Johanna. "The Meaning of'the Notion of'Divine Power in the Neoclassical Theism of Charles Hartshorne.  Ph.D. Dissertation, Fordham University, 1977.

Fulton, E. P. "A Critical Examination of Process Theology from the Perspective of the Doctrines of Sin and Salvation, with Special Reference to the Claim that it is a Natural The­ology." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Iowa, 1966.  

Gerlach, Allen M. "Hartshorne's Conception of God.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University, 1951.

Gillham, W. R. D. "The God‑World Relation in Whitehead, Hartshorne, and Wieman." Ph.D. Dissertation, Princeton University, 1964.

Gilmour, J. C. "Analogical Generalization and Whitehead's Panpsychism." Ph.D. Dissertation, Emory University, 1966.

Ginsterblum, J. M. "Panentheism: The Religious Philosophy of A. N. Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne." Ph.D. Dissertation, Gregorian University (Rome), 1957.

Goodwin, George Lawrence. "The Ontological Argument of'Charles Hartshorne." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of'Chicago, 1976.

Gould, Keith Alan. "The Modern Wordsworth: A Comparative Study of William Wordsworth and Charles Hartshorne.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 1973.

Gustavson, J. A. "Christian Theology in Process Perspective: A Study of Charles Hartshorne's Dipolar Theism and Norman Pittenger's Process Christology." Ph.D. Dissertation, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1969.

Hallman, J. M. "The Theological Relevance of Objective Im­mortality in the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead." Ph.D. Dissertation. Fordham University, 1970.

Henson, Jerry Clay. "Immortality in the Thought of Charles Hartshorne."  Ph.D. Dissertation, Baylor University, 1975.

Jackson, Jerald. “An Investigation of the Implications of Process Philosophy for Christology with Special Attention to the Thought of Lionel Spencer Thornton and Charles Hartshorne.” Ph.D. Dissertation. Northwestern University, 1966.

James, R. E., Jr., "The Function of the Relation Between the Abstract and the Concrete in Charles Hartshorne's Treat­ment of some Traditional Christian Doctrines." Ph.D. Dissertation, Drew University, 1965.

Keeling, L. Bryant. "God‑Language and Metaphysics: A Study in the Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne with Special Emphasis on the Ontological Arguments. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Chicago, 1971.

Lawson, E. T. "Tillich and Hartshorne: An Essay on the Sovereignty of God," Dissertation, University of Chicago Di­vinity School, 1963.

Legge, R. D. "The Concepts of Deity of Ramanuja and Charles Hartshorne Compared." Ph.D. Dissertation, McMaster Uni­versity, 1972.

Lewis, C. W., Jr., "Sense or Nonsense: The Ontological Argu­ment For the Existence of God in the Thought of Charles Hartshorne." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Georgia, 1973.

McAlester, Alan Pierce. "Metaphysical Propositions: The Views of' Brand Blanshard and Charles Hartshorne.  Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Toronto.

McBride, R. E. "A Study in the Philosophy of History in Selected Contemporary Theologians: With Special Reference to the Writings of Reinhold Niebuhr, Henry Nelson Wieman, and the Process Theologians." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1959.

Michael, Chester Paul. "A Comparison of the God‑Talk of Thomas Aquinas and Charles Hartshorne." S.T.D. Dissertation, St. Mary's Seminary and University, 1975.

Moskop, John Charles.  "Divine Omniscience and Human Freedom in Thomas Aquinas and Charles Hartshorne."  Ph.D. Dissertation.  University of Texas at Austin, 1979.

Mulkern, Anthony James. "A Justification of Altruism: Based oil the Thought of Charles Hartshorne and Alfred North Whitehead." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 1976.

Nordgulen, G. "The Reality of God: A Study of the Arguments for the Relational Existence of God." Ph.D. Dissertation, Claremont Graduate School, 1966.

Prager, H. R. "A Comparative Study of the Concept of God in Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne." M.A. Thesis, University of Southern California, 1952.

Rice, Thomas Richard. "Charles Hartshorne's Concept of' Natural Theology." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1974.

Robertson, J. C., Jr., "The Concept of the Divine Person in the Thought of Charles Hartshorne and Karl Barth." Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1967.

Robinson, Robert Hoke.  "The Application of Normative Genesis to Hartshorne's Modal Proof."  Masters Thesis.  University of Texas at Austin, 1971.

Rose, L. L. "Toward a New Supernaturalism." Ph.D. Dissertation, Claremont Graduate School, 1967.

Sageser, Philip Smith. "Metaphor Analogy, and Metaphysics; A Study of Language in the Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne with Particular Attention to His Theory and Use of Theistic Language." Ph.D. Dissertation, Southern Methodist University, 1977.

Schmid, Ernest Walter, Jr. "Charles Hartshorne: The Modes of Infinite Being." Ph.D. Dissertation, Emory University, 1976.

Sessions, W. L. "A Critical Examination of Dipolar Panentheism." Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1971.

Shields, George W. "Neoclassical Metaphysics and the Philosophies of' Existence: An Interpretation of the Thought of Charles Hartshorne." M A. Thesis, University of Louisville, 1975.

Shofner, R. D. "The Role of St. Anselm's Formulation of the Ontological Argument in the Writings of Karl Barth, and Charles Hartshorne's Philosophical Theology as the Basis for an Alternative to the Barthian Dogmatic Program." Ph.D. Dissertation, Hartford Seminary Foundation, 1972.

Shuttec, W. "The Conception of God in the Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne." B.D. Thesis, Federated Theological Faculty of the University of Chicago, 1944.

Smith, D. "The Doctrine of God in Whiteheadian Process Theologians: Whitehead, Hartshorne, Pittenger, Ogden and Cobb." Ph.D. Dissertation, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1972.

Speer, L. A. "The Ontological Argument in the Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne." B.D. Thesis, University of Chicago Divinity School, 1967.

Storms, William Claude. "The Problem of' Evil for Process Thought: An Examination front the Perspective of' Christian Theism." Ph.D. Dissertation, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1978.

Towne, E. A. "Ontological and Theological Dimensions of God in the Thought of Paul Tillich and Charles Hartshorne." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago Divinity School, 1967.

Thomason, Sister A., O.S.U. "An Explanation and Application of the Law of Contrast in Charles Hartshorne's Panentheism." Ph.D. Dissertation, Fordham University, 1969.

Vaught, C. G. "Contemporary Conceptions of the Nature and Existence of God: A Study of Tillich and Hartshorne." Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1966.

Vieth, R. F. "The Logic of Religion in the Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne." Ph.D. Dissertation, Southern Methodist University, 1972.

Vitali, Theodore Raymond. "Hartshorne's Model for Neoclassical Metaphysics." Ph.D. Dissertation, St. Louis University, 1976.

Washbourn, Penelope. "The Metaphysics of Sociality: An Exploration into the Social Conception of'Reality in the History of Philosophy and Its Interpretation by Charles Hartshorne." Th.D. Dissertation, Union Theological Seminary in New York, 1973.

Whitney, Barry Lyn. "God, Man, and Evil: The Question of Theodicy in the Neoclassical Metaphysics of Charles Hartshorne. " Ph.D. Dissertation, McMaster University, 1977.

Whittemore, R. C.  "Panpsychism and the Function of God."  Ph.D. Dissertation.  Yale University, 1953.

Wilcox, J. T. "Relativity, Simultaneity, and Divine Omniscience."  M.A. Thesis.  Emory University, 1956.

Woo, Esther. "An Evaluation of Hartshorne's Critique of the Notion of' Absolute Being in Classical Tradition." Ph.D. Dissertation, Hartford Seminary Foundation, 1974.