African, African-American, and Process Theologies

Anyanwu, K. C. “A Response to A.G.A. Bello’s Methodlogical Preliminaries.” Ultimate Reality and Meaning 14, no.1 (1991): 61-69.

Baker-Fletcher, Karen. "AfroAmerican Thoughts on God in Creation." Earth Letter (Spring 2007): 5-6.

_____. "Passing on the Spark: A Womanist Perspective on Theology and Culture." in Changing  Conversations: Religious Reflection and Cultural Analysis. ed. Dwight N. Hopkins and Sheila Greeve Davaney. New York: Routledge, 1996.145-62.

_____.  "Something or Nothing: An Eco-Womanist Essay on God, Creation and Indispensbility." in This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment. Second Edition. ed. Roger S. Gottlieb. New York and London, Routledge, 2004, 428-37.

_____. "A Womanist Journey." in Deeper Shades of Purple : Womanism in Religion and Society. ed. Stacy M. Floyd-Thomas. New York: New York University Press, 2006, 158-75.

Beardslee, William A. “Cornel West’s Postmodern Theology.” In Varieties of Postmodern Theology, David R. Griffin, William A. Beardslee, and Joe Holland (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989), 149-55.

_____. “Responses to Kunene’s ‘African Cosmology’.” (unpubl.)

Chinula, Don. “African Thought Conference.” Newsletter of the Center for Process Studies 12, no.2 (Spring 1988): 1, 7.

Cobb, John B. Jr. “Response to Kunene’s Paper.” (unpubl.)

Cone, James H. Review of Faith and Freedom: Toward a Theology of Liberation, by Schubert Ogden. Union Seminary Quarterly Review 35 (1979-80): 296-300.

Deminoff, William. “The Role of an Iowa Theologian in King’s Civil-Rights Work.” The Des Moines Register (October 13, 1987) [References to Wieman]

Fields, Cheryl and David R. Griffin. “Black Theology and Process.” Newsletter of the Center for Process Studies 10, no.4 (Fall 1986): 1, 8-9.

Graves, Thomas H. “A Critique of Process Theodicy from an African Perspective.” Process Studies 17, no.2 (Summer 1988): 103-11.

Griffin, David Ray. “Black Process Theology.” Newsletter of the Center for Process Studies 11, no.2 (Spring 1987): 9.

_____. “The Conversation with Cornel West.” Newsletter of the Center for Process Studies 10, no.2 (Spring 1986): 2, 7-8.

_____. “Liberation Theology and Postmodern Philosophy: A Response to Cornel West.” In Varieties of Postmodern Theology, David R. Griffin, William A. Beardslee, and Joe Holland (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989), 129-48.

Howell, Nancy Rose. “Process Theodicy from an African Perspective.” Newsletter of the Center for Process Studies 11:2 (Spring 1987): 9.

Hutcherson, Matthew. “Is the Process God Guardian of the Oppressor or Goad to the Oppressed?  An Answer to the Compatibility Question.” (unpubl.)

Jones, William R. “Process Theology: Guardian of the Oppressor or Goad to the Oppressed: An Interim Assessment.” Process Studies 18, no.4 (Winter 1989): 268-81.

King, Martin Luther, Jr. “A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman.” Ph.D. Diss., Boston University, 1955.

Kunene, Mazisi. “African Cosmology.” (unpubl.)

McCloud, Aminah. Review of African Muslims in Antebellum America: Transatlantic Stories and Spiritual Struggles, by Allan D. Austin and Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas, by Sylviane A. Diouf. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 68, no. 4 (December 2000): 879-933.

McKenith, William. “Process Philosophy: A Possible Philosophical Undergirding for Black Theology.” The A.M.E. Zion Quarterly Review 113, no. 3 (2001): 25-36.

Miller, Randolph C. “Process Thought and Black Theology.” In Black Theology II, eds., Calvin E. Bruce and William R. Jones (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1978), 267-85.

Morrison, Ron D., II. “Critical Black Philosophy and International Theology: A Methodological Response to John Cobb.” (unpubl.)

_____. “Process Philosophy, Social Thought, and Liberation Theology.” Zygon 19, no.1 (March 1984): 65-81.

Neve, Herbert. “Religion and Experimentation With African Socialism in Tanzania.” 1975 (unpubl.) [abstract]

Potter, Ronald C. “A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in Process and Black Theologies.” The Journal of the Interdenominational Center 12, nos.1-2 (Fall 1984-Spring 1985): 50-61.

Prozesky, Martin. “Well-Fed Animals and Starving Babies: Environmental and Developmental Challenges in Process and African Perspectives.” Concrescence 1 (June 2000) [paper available at http://www.alfred.north.whitehead.com/AJPT/ajpt_papers/vol01/01_prozesky_fr.htm]

Reeves, Gene. “Liberation in Process Theology and the Black Experience.” Newsletter of the Center for Process Studies 9, no.4 (Fall 1985): 1-2, 9.

Smith, Archie, Jr. “Alien Gods in Black Experience.” Process Studies 18, no.4 (Winter 1989): 294-305.

_____. “Black Liberation and Process Theologies.” Process Studies 16, no.3 (Fall 1987): 174-90.

_____. The Relational Self: Ethics & Therapy from a Black Church Perspective. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1982.

Smith, Edward L. “A Process Response to Akinsola Akiwowo’s Ajobi and Ajogbe: Variations on the Theme of Sociation.” Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center 28, nos. 1-2 (Fall-Spring 2000-2001): 103-24.

Thandeka. “‘I’ve Known Rivers’: Black Theology’s Response to Process Theology.” Process Studies 18, no.4 (Winter 1989): 282-93.

_____. Review of Hope in Process, by Henry James Young. (unpubl.)

Vogel, Howard J. “Welfare Rights and the Constitutional Ethic of Justice Thurgood Marshall.” (unpubl.)

Walker, Theodore, Jr. “African-American Religion and Process Theology.” [Video cassette]

_____. “African-American Resources for a More Inclusive Liberation Theology.” In Good News for Animals?  Christian Approaches to Animal Well-Being, eds. Charles Pinches and Jay B. McDaniel. (Mary Knoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993), 163-71.

_____. “Black Religion and Black Radicalism: Theology and Liberation.” (unpubl.)

_____. Empower the People: Social Ethics for the African-American Church. Mary Knoll: Orbis, 1991.

_____. “Hartshorne’s Neoclassical Theism and Black Theology.” Process Studies 18, no.4 (Winter 1989): 240-58.

_____. “Hartshorne’s Neoclassical Theism from the Perspective of Black Theology.” In Charles Hartshorne’s Concept of God, ed. Santiago Sia (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990), 1-22.

_____. “Theological Resources for a Black Neoclassical Social Ethics.” Journal of Religious Thought 45, no.2 (Winter-Spring 1989): 21-39. Reprinted in Black Theology: A Documentary History. Vol. II. 1980-1992, eds. James H. Cone and Gayraud S. Wilmore (New York: Orbis Books, 1993), 35-52.

West, Cornel. “The Historicist Turn in Philosophy of Religion.” In Knowing Religiously, ed. Leroy S. Rouner (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1985), 36-51.

_____. Review of God Within Process, by Eulalio R. Baltazar. Religious Studies Review 5, no.1 (January 1979): 69.

Young, Henry James. “Black Theology and the Work of William R. Jones.” Religion in Life 44 (Spring 1975): 14-28.

_____. “Black Theology: Providence and Evil.” Duke Divinity School Review 40, no.2 (1975): 87-96.

_____. “God and Convergence: A Teilhardian Perspective.” (unpubl.)

_____. “God and the World: A Process Perspective.” Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center 11, no.2 (Spring, 1975): 114-24.

_____. Hope in Process: A Theology of Social Pluralism. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1990.

_____. “Points of Convergence Between Afro-American Religion and Process Theology.” [Video cassette]

_____. “Process Theology and Black Liberation: Testing the Metaphysical Foundations.” Process Studies 18, no.4 (Winter 1989): 259-67.

_____. “The Power of God and Marginal Existence.” (unpubl.)

_____. “The Reality of God and Human Oppression.” (unpubl.)