David Ray Griffin: Bibliography of Unpublished Material
“The American Empire as Non-Accidental and Non-Benign.” “Conference on American Empire.” Center for Process Studies, Claremont School of Theology, Oct. 4-5, 2003. (video)
“Appendix: Austin Farrer & Process Theology.” [Protestant Mainstream Theologians, Anglican Theologians, Farrer]
“Beyond the Modern World.” [Postmodern Thought]
“Center for a Post-Modern World: Statement of Beliefs, Purpose, and Status.” [Postmodern Thought]
“Creation and Evolution, Theology and Science.” [A Syllabus for class] Spring 1996.
“The Criterion of the Best Philosophy for Biblical Exegesis.” [Biblical Studies, Hermeneutics]
“David Bohm’s Post-Modern Science: Some Reflections.” [Postmodern Thought, Bohm, Science]
“Divine Activity: Beyond Supernaturalism and Atheism.” [Non-theism, Atheism, Supernaturalsim, Atheism]
“Ecology, Theology, and Process Philosophy.” [Ecology, Theology, Philosophy, Earth, Environment]
“Evil and the Two Types of Efficient Causation”
"Evolution and the Reunion of the Sciences, the Humanities, and Theology" (unpubl.) [Paper presented at the Conference of Evolution as a Transdiciplinary Paradigm Drew University, Madison, New Jersey. April 18-20, 1991] 1-63.
“Global Democracy: The Aleternative to Global Empire.” “Conference on American Empire.” Center for Process Studies, Claremont School of Theology, Oct. 4-5, 2003. (video)
“Global Imperialism or Global Democracy: The Present Alternatives.” “An American Empire? Globalization, War, and Religion.” Drew University, September 25-27, 2003.
“The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob¾and of William James.” [North American Philosophers, James, Biblical Studies, God Concepts]
“God and Creativity: A Response to Sueo Oshima.” [Creativity, God Concepts, Oshima]
“God Has a Story Too: A Review Article.” [God Concepts]
“God, Holocausts, and the Demonic: A Contemporary Theodicy.” [Evil, Holocaust, Demonic, Theodicy]
"God Wants us to Enjoy." (unpubl.)
“God’s Subjective Aim in Process and Reality.” [Metaphysics]
“Green Spirituality: A Postmodern Convergence of Science and Religion.” [Postmodern Thought, Ecology, Spirituality, Science, Religion] ["Lecture for the University Club Forum, Santa Barbara, February 27, 1992.]
“An Introduction to Process Cosmology.” Cosmology and Process Philosophy in Dialogue Conference, October 5-8, 2006. Albrecht Aud. Claremont Graduate University.
"John Cobb: A Life Extraordinarily Responsive to the Divine Lure." [Conference paper presented at The Legacy and Lure of John B. Cobb, Jr. Conference], Claremont School of Theology, February 14-17, 2008. [This archive can be found in the Special Collections Unit at the Claremont School of Theology Library for reference only.]
“Jung and the Postmodern Recovery of Life as a Spiritual Journey: An Appreciative Critique." A Presentation at the C. G. Jung Club of Orange County, Orange, California, February 1, 1991.
“Life After Death: A Postmodern Perspective.” Keynote Lecture. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, November 16, 1990.
“Man’s Relation to Nature: Ideas, Attitudes and Behavior.” [Nature, Psychology, Ecology, Environment, Earth]
“The Modern Worldview: Why It Needs to be Transcended.” [Postmodern Thought]
“Modern and Post-Modern Liberal Theology: A Response to Alvin Reines.” [Judaism, Postmodern Thought, Theology, Reines]
“Motives for Globally Responsible Action Inherent in Christian Faith: A Contribution from Philosophical Theology.” [abstract]
“Must God Be Unlimited? Naturalistic vs Supernaturalistic Theism.” [abstract]
“Must We All Emphasize the Same Thing? A Response to Jose Porfirio Miranda.” [Liberation Theology, Miranda]
“Myth, Incarnation, and the Need for a Postmodern Theology.” [Modern Worldview, Process Theology, Whitehead]
“Natural Law, the Ideal Judge, Communitarian Cosmopolitanism, and Global Democracy.” (unpubl., conference paper, “Democracy, Globalization, and the Law,” CPS and Hamline University College of Law, St. Paul, MN, September 19-23, 2002.)
“A Naturalistic Trinity for the Nuclear Age.”
“The Need for (Democratic) Global Government.” 1993.
“The Need for a Post-Modern Paradigm.” [Non-theism, Atheism, Postmodern Thought, Materialism]
“A Normative Theory of Obligation by a Whiteheadian.” [Ethics]
“Pantemporalism and Panexperientialism.”
“Parapsychology, Philosophy, and Religion: A Whiteheadian Postmodern Perspective.” [Parapsychology, Philosophy, Religion, Postmodern Thought]
“The Post-Modern Paradigm and the Question of World Peace.” [Postmodern Thought]
“The Post-Modern Paradigm Project.” [Postmodern Thought]
“A Post-Modern Vision of Science, Religion, and Morality.” [Postmodern thought, Science, Religion, Morality]
“The Power of God and the Power of Imitation.” Power, Divine Power, Imitation, Sermon]
“Process Theism: A Response to Robert Neville.” [Theism, Neville, Critique]
“Process Theodicy and Christology, and the ‘Imitatio Dei:’ A Christian-Jewish Essay.” [Evil, Judaism, Theodicy, Christology, Jewish Christian Dialogue]
“Process Theology and Eastern Orthodox Theology: A Response to Thomas Hopko.” [Orthodox Theology, Hopko] [abstract]
“A Question of Values, A Question of Power.” [Power, Values]
“Rationale for an Encounter of Archetypal Psychology and Process Thought.” [Jung, Psychology, Archtypal Psychology]
“Reasonable Belief in Life after Death: Religio-Ethical, Philosophical, and Empirical
Considerations.” [Death, Immortality, Ethics, Philosophy, Empiricism]
“Reconceiving God from the Heart of a Superpower.” [Political Theory, God Concepts]
“References on Animal Mentality.” [Consciousness]
“Religion and Science in the Postmodern World” (unpubl.)
“Religion and Scientific Naturalism: Overcoming the Conflicts.” Seminar of The Center for Process Studies. Spring, 1996.
“Religious Pluralism: Post Liberal and Postmodern Approaches.”
“Response to Panikkar. “Christian Identity in a Time of Pluralism.” [Pluralism, Christianity, Panikkar]
“Response to [Stephen] Braude’s Response.” [Parapsychology, Braude]
“Response to Lewis Ford’s The Emergence of Whitehead’s Metaphysics 1925-1929.”
“Review of Edward Pols, The Acts of Our Being: A Reflection on Agency and Responsibility.”
“Science and Religion: How Parapsychology Could Affect the Relation.” (Process Members paper 7:1)
"Science and Religion in the Postmodern World." Belgium Conference Paper, November 1998, 1-24.
“Some Basic Principles of Whiteheadian Process Thought: Outlined with an Eye Toward Their Relevance for Biblical Historiography and Hermeneutic.” [Biblical Studies, Hermeneutics, Introductory Readings]
Summary from “Unsnarling the World-Knot.” [Consciousness]
“Syllabus: Green Theology.” [Syllabus--Ecology--Theology] [School of Theology at Claremont, Fall 1991]
“The Task of Christian Philosophers in a Postmodern Age.”
“Theology and the Rise of Modern Science.”
“A Theology of Religious Pluralism: A Postmodern Approach.” Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the National Association of College and University Chaplains, Mercy Center, Burlingame, California, March 18-21, 1990. [Pluralism, Postmodern Thought]
“Time, Creativity, and the Origin of the Universe: A Response to Stephen Hawking.”[Physical Sciences, Time Creativity, Cosmology, Hawking]
“Truth as Correspondence, Knowledge as Dialogical: On Affirming Pluralism without Relativism.” Conference on Truth, Claremont School of Theology at Claremont, March 2002.
"A Vision of the Postmodern World and Education." Keynote Lecture at the "Schooling for a Postmodern World" Conference, sponsored by the Association for Process Philosophy of Education, the Claremont School of Theology, February 20, 1991.
"The 'Vision Thing,' the Presidency, and the Ecological Crisis, or the Greenhouse Effect and the 'White House Effect."' Postmodern Politics for a Planet in Crisis.
“What is Consciousness and Why is It so Problematic?” [Consciousness, Philosophy of Mind]
“Whitehead, China, and Global Democracy in the New Millennium.” [Presented at Whitehead and China in the New Millennium Conference, Beijing, China, June 17-20, 2002] [abstract available]
“Whitehead as a Transpersonal Philosopher.” [Psychology and Psychotherapy --Transpersonal Psychology] [Transpersonal and Process Thought Conference: March 17-22, 1996]
“Why Critical Reflection on the Paranormal is so Important and so Difficult.” [Parapsychology, Paranormal]
“Without Vision the Planet Will Perish.” [Center for a Postmodern World Conference, July, 1989.] [Postmodern Thought] [This presentation is also available in audiotape format]
“The World as God’s Body: A Response to Sallie McFague’s Post-modern Metaphorical Theology.” [God-World Relation, Feminism, Postmodern, McFague, Theology, Earth, Ecology, Environment]
“Worldview: Reclaiming the Past, Shaping the Future.” [Postmodern Thought, Worldviews, Past, Future.]