Process Thought and Free Will

Abe, Masao. "Free Will In Buddhism." Mini-conference on Buddhist-Jewish-Christian Dialogue, May 28, 1986. [abstract]

Adler, Mortimer, J.. The Idea of Freedom: A Dialectical Examination of the Conception of Freedom. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1958. 

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.

Anonymous, "John Orwell Bascomb III Encouters Evil." [unpublished]

Baldwin, Dalton D. "Evil and Persuasive Power: A Response to Hare and Madden." Process Studies 3, no.4 (Winter 1973): 259-72.

Barnhart, J. E. “Persuasive and Coercive Power in Process Metaphysics.”  Process Studies 3, no.3 (Fall 1973): 153-57.

Barrett, J. Edwin. How Are You Programmed? Richmond, VA: John Knox Press, 1971. [abstract]

Basinger, David. The Case for Freewill Theism: A Philosophical Assessment. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1996. [abstract]

_____. “Christian Theism and the Free Will Defence.” Sophia 20:33  year???

_____. “Evil: Does Process Theism Have a Better Explanation?”  In Divine Power in Process Theism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988), 55-68.

_____. “Plantinga's 'Free-Will Defense' as a Challenge to Orthodox Theism.”  American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 3, no.2 (May 1982): 35-41.

_____. "Human Coercion: A Fly in the Process Ointment?" Process Studies 15, no.3 (Fall, 1986): 161-71.

_____. “Review: Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, The End of Evil: Eschatology in Historical Context.”  Journal of Religion 70, no.1 (January 1990): 117-18.

_____. “Process Theism Versus Free-Will Theism: A Response to Griffin.”  Process Studies 20, no. 4 (Winter 1991): 204-20. [abstract]

Bellett, Alan J.D. “Evolution, Process and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.”  Process Studies 32, no.1 (Spring-Summer 2003): 121-141.

Bjelland, Andrew G.  “Bergson’s Dualism in ‘Time and Free Will’.”  Process Studies 4:2 (Summer 1974):  83-106. [Bergson, Free Will, Time]

Bracken, Joseph A., S.J.  “Divine Providence and Human Freedom: A Second Look.”  Theoforum, 35 (2004): 301-316.

Brown, Delwin. "Transforming Tradition: History, Creativity, and the Task of Theology." Iliff Review 41 (Fall 1984): 3-15.

Butler, Cornelius A. “God the Creator: Determinism of the Future?” Nature and History in Pannenberg’s Theology (Lanham: Littlefield Adams Books, 1996): 53-57. 

Clayton, Philip. “Natural Law and Divine Action: The Search for an Expanded Theory of Causation.” Zygon 39, no. 3 (September 2004): 615-36.

_____. “Emergence, Supervenience, and Personal Knowledge.”  Tradition and Discovery 29, no.3 (2002-2003): 8-19.

_____. “Neuroscience, the Person, and God: An Emergentist Account.”  Zygon 35, no.3 (Sept. 2000): 613- 652.

Cobb, John B., Jr. “Evil and the Power of God.”  In God and the World (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1969), 87-102.

_____ and Clark H. Pinnock, eds. Searching for an Adequate God: A Dialogue Between Process and Free Will Theists. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2000. [abstract]

Conway, John and Kochen, Simon.  "The Free Will Theorem."  Foundations of Physics 36, no. 10 (October 2006): 1441-1473. [abstract]

Crosby, Donald A.  Novelty.  Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005.

Diaz, José-Luis. “Mind-body unity, dual aspect, and the emergence of consciousness.”  Philosophical Psychology 13, no.3 (2000): 393-403. [abstract]

Dombrowski, Daniel. "Being Is Power."  American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 16, no.3 (Sept. 1995): 299-314.

_____. Hartshorne and the Metaphysics of Animal Rights. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988.

Eastman, Timothy E. “The Emergence of High Level Biological Structures and Mind Through Dissipative Structures and Quantum Processes.” [???] PM 9:2

Edwards, Rem Blanchard. Freedom, Responsibility, and Obligation. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1969. [abstract]

Epperly, Bruce G. "Process Theology and Lived Omnipresence: An Essay in Practical Theology." [unpub] Seminar Paper, Haddon Conference Center: Claremont, CA (July 25, 2006): 1-14.

Ferore, Louise H. “Some Ethical Implications of Whitehead’s Metaphysics.” Ph.D. Dissertation. New School for Social Research, 1979.

Frankenberry, Nancy.  "The Emergent Paradigm and Divine Causation."  Process Studies 13, no.3 (1984): 202-17.

Gilkey, Langdon.  "God: Eternal Source of Newness." In Living with Change, Experience, Faith, ed. Francis A. Eigo, O.S.A. (Villanova, PA: Villanova University Press, 1976) 151-68. [abstract]

_____.  “Gregeresen’s Vision of a Theonomous Universe.”  Zygon 34, no. 1 (March 1999):  111-115.

Goodenough, Ursula and Terrence W. Deacon. “From Biology to Consciousness to Morality.”  Tradition and Discovery 30, no. 3 (2003-2004): 6-21.

Griffin, David Ray. “Creation out of Chaos and the Problem of Evil.”  In Encountering Evil: Live Options in Theodicy, ed. Stephen T. Davis (Atlanta, GA: John Knox Press, 1981), 101-36

_____. “Evil and the Two Types of Efficient Causation.” (unpubl.) [abstract]

_____. God, Power, and Evil: A Process Theodicy. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1991  [Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976].

_____. “Traditional Free Will Theodicy and Process Theodicy: Hasker's Claim for Parity.”  Process Studies 29, no.2 (Fall-Winter 2000): 209-226.

_____. Religion and Scientific Naturalism; Overcoming the Conflicts. SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought, ed. David Ray Griffin. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2000.

Hare, Peter. “Evil and Unlimited Power.”  Review of Metaphysics 20 (1966): 278-89.

_____. “Review: David R. Griffin, God, Power and Evil: A Process Theodicy.”  Process Studies 7, no.1 (1977): 44-51.

_____,  and Edward Madden. “Evil and Persuasive Power.”  Process Studies 2, no.1 (Spring 1972): 44-8. [abstract]

Hartshorne, Charles. “Freedom as Universal.”  Process Studies 25 (1996): 1-9.

_____. "God as Composer-Director, Enjoyer, and, in a Sense, Player of the Cosmic Drama." Process Studies 30, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2001): 242-53.

_____. “Some Thoughts on ‘Souls’ and Neighborly Love.” Anglican Theological Review 55, no.2 (April 1973): 144-47.

Hasker, William. “'Bitten to Death by Ducks': A Reply to Griffin.”  Process Studies 29 no.2 (Fall-Winter 2000): 233-236.

_____. “The Problem of Evil in Process Theism and Classical Free Will Theism.”  Process Studies 29 no.2 (Fall-Winter 2000): 194-208.

Haught, John F. “Does the Universe Have a Purpose.”  Science and Religion, no. ? Year ?  162-182.

_____. “The Emergent Environment and the Problem of Cosmic Purposes.” Environmental Ethics 8, no. 2 (Summer 1982).

_____. “Purpose and Nature's Hierarchy.”  In The Cosmic Adventure, 88-97.

Hendley, Brian P., ed. Plato, Time, and Education: Essays in Honor of Robert S. Brumbaugh. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987. [abstract]

Hustwit, J. R. “Self-Determination, Evil, and Process Theology.” New Perspectives: A Journal of Conscious Living (Winter 2004): 20-21.

Jeffreys, Derek S. “The Soul is Alive and Well: Non-reductive Physicalism and Emergent Mental Properties.”  Theology and Science  2, no. 2  (October 2004): 205-225.

Joad, C. E. M. Guide to Philosophy. New York: Dover Publications, 1957. [abstract]

Keller, Catherine. God and Power: Counter-Apocalyptic Journeys. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005.

Kreiner, Armin. "Creation and the Problem of Evil." In Buddhism, Christianity and the Questions of Creation: Karmic or Divine?. Ed. Perry Schmidt-Leukel (Hants, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006), 61-68. 

Limper, Peter. “Action, Responsibility, and the Problem of Personal Identity.”  (unpubl.)

Lutzow, Thomas H.  “The Structure of Free Act in Bergson.”  Process Studies 7, no.2 (Summer, 1977): 73-89. [abstract] [Bergson, Freedom, Free Will]

McFague, Sallie.  “Is God in Charge?” In Essentials of Christian Theology, ed. William C. Placher (Louisville, Westminster John Knox Press, 2003), 101-16.

McLachlan, James M. The Desire to be God: Freedom and the Other in Sartre and Berdyaev. New York: Peter Lang, 1992. [abstract]

Mesle, Charles Robert.  "Power and Value in Process Philosophy and Theology."  Ph.D. Dissertation.  Northwestern University, 1980.

Mullins, Phil. “Polanyian Footnotes to “From Biology to Consciousness to Morality.” Tradition and Discovery 30, no. 3 (2003-2004): 22-30.

Ogden, Schubert. “‘For Freedom Christ Has Set Us Free’: The Christian Understanding of Ultimate Transformation.”  The Whirlwind in Culture, eds., Donald W. Musser and Joseph L. Price. Bloomington, IN: Meyer Stone Books, 1988, pp. 200-213.

Pannenberg, Wolfhart. “The Christian Understanding of the Human Person.” (Unpubl.) [abstract]

Pawelski, James O.  “William James and Epiphanal Experience.” In Religion in a Pluralistic Age: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Philosophical Theology, eds. Donald A. Crosby and Charley D. Hardwick (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2001): 277-288. [North American Philosophers, Ethics, Free Will]

Pilon, Juliana Geran. “Lockeian Roots of the Ontological Principle.” Process Studies 7, no. 3 (Fall 1977): 192-200. [abstract]

Pittenger, Norman. Cosmic Love and Human Wrong: The Reconception of the Meaning of Sin in the Light of Process Thinking. New York: Paulist Press, 1978. [abstract]

_____. Freed to Love: A Process Interpretation of Redemption. Wilton, CT: Morehouse-Barlow, 1987.

_____. “An Interpretation of Sin.”  Religion in Life (Winter 1975): 428-431.

Plamondon, Ann. “Emergence in Evolution (Response to Birch and Dobzhansky)” In Mind in Nature, ed. John B. Cobb and David Griffin (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1977), 25-26.

Rescher, Nicholas. "Causal Necessitation and Free Will" Process Studies 35, no. 2 (2006 Fall-Winter): 193-206.

Rice, Richard. The Openness of God: The Relationship of Divine Foreknowledge and Human Free Will. Nashville: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1980. [abstract]

Rorty, Richard. "Response to Hartshorne." in Porty & Pragmatism: The Philosopher Responds to His Critics. Nashville and London. Vanderbilt Universtiy Press, 1995. 29-36.

Ryzek, William. “Existential Moments in the Concrescing Subject.”  (unpubl.)

Shaw, D.W.D .  “Providence and Persuasion.”  Duke Divinity Review 45 (1980): 11-22.  [abstract]

Stapp, Henry P.  "Henry Stapp on Quantum Mechanics, Spirit, Mind, and Morality. Quantum Interactive Dualism: An Alternative to Materialism.”  Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, 41, no. 3 (Sept. 2006):  599-615. [abstract]

Suchocki, Marjorie, “Sin in Feminist and Process Thought.” In God, Evil, and Suffering: Essays in Honor of Paul R. Sponheim, ed. Terence E. Fretheim and Curtis L. Thompson (St. Paul: Word & World, Luther Seminary, 2000), 143-53.

_____. The Fall to Violence: Original Sin in Relational Theology. New York: Continuum Publishing Company, 1994.

Tanner, Kathryn.  “Is God in Charge?” In Essentials of Christian Theology, ed. William C. Placher (Louisville, Westminster John Knox Press, 2003), 116-30.

Valenza, Robert J. "Possibility, Actuality, and Freewill." Wolrd Futures 64 (2008): 94-108. [abstract]

Van den Brink, Gijsbert.  “Divine Almightiness and Human Freedom.”  In Almighty God: A Study of the Doctrine of Divine Omnipotence  (Netherlands:  Kok Pharos Publishing House, 1993

Virtue, Charles. “A Whiteheadian Ethic: The Ethic of Responsible Freedom.” (unpubl.) [abstract]

Whitney, Barry L. “Process Theism: Does a Persuasive God Coerce?”  The Southern Journal of Philosophy 17 (Spring 1979): 133-43. [abstrac]

Wright, John. H. "Divine Knowledge and Human Freedom" The God Who Dialogues" in Theological Studies vol 38, issue 3, Sept 1977: 450-477. [abstract]

Yong, Amos. Possibility and Actuality: The Doctrine of Creation and Its Implications for Divine Omniscience in The Wesleyan Philosophical Society Online Journal. Vol 1, issue 1, 2001.

Zycinski, Joseph M. “God, Freedom, and Evil: Perspectives from Religion and Science.”  Zygon 35, no.3 (September 2000): 653-64.