Process Thought and Theories of Human Nature
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Beardslee, William A. “The Normatively Human in Biblical and in Process Thought.” (unpubl.)
Berry, Thomas. "Note on Process Philosophy."(unpubl.): Spring 2008:1-3
Birch, L. Charles. “Biology and the Image of Man.” The Modern Churchman 98 (1973): 3-7.
_____. “Chance and Purpose in Human Life.” (unpubl.)
_____. “Nature, Humanity, and God in Ecological Perspective.” (unpubl.)
_____. On Purpose. Kensington, New South Wales: New South Wales University Press, 1990. [abstract]
_____, and John B. Cobb., Jr. “The Human and the Natural.” In The Liberation of Life. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981): 97-140.
Bowman, Donna. "Communities and Destinies." Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought. Vol. I. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Heusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2008. 55-69 [abstract]
Boyden, Stephen V. "Culture, Nature and the Future." In God, Cosmos, Nature and Creativity, ed. by Jill Gready (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1995): 51-77.
Bracken, Joseph A. “Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights: A Process Approach.” Cogito 1, no.1 (March 1983): 51-73. [abstract]
Braxton, Donald M. “'Religion Is Not About God'--Responding to Loyal Rue: Religious Naturalism and the Future of Christianity.” Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science 42, no. 2 (June 2007): 317-41. [abstract]
Breslau, Daniel. " Sociology after Humanism: A Lesson form Contemporary Science Studies." Sociological Theory 18, no. 2 (July 2000): 289-307. [abstract]
Brown, Delwin. “Hope for the Human Future: Neibuhr, Whitehead and Utopian Expectation.” Iliff Review 32 (1975): 3-18.
Buchler, Justus. Toward a General Theory of Human Judgment. New York: Dover Publications, 1979 [1951]. [abstract]
Case-Winters, Anna. “Rethinking the Image of God.” Zygon 39, no. 4 (December 2004): 813-826. [abstract]
Cappon, Alexander P. About Wordsworth and Whitehead: A Prelude to Philosophy. New York: Philosophical Library, 1982. [abstract]
Chapman, G. Clarke. "On Being Human: Moltmann's Anthropology of Hope." The Asbury Theological Journal 55, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 69-84.
Clark, Mary E. “Human Nature: What We Need to Know About Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century.” Zygon 33, no.4 (December 1998): 645-59.
Cloots, Andre. “Toward a Dynamic Conception of Man.” Jeevadhara 10, no.55 (Jan.-Feb. 1980): 17-34.
Cobb, John B., Jr. “Beyond Anthropocentrism in Ethics and Religion.” In On the Fifth Day, ed., Richard K. Morris and Michael W. Fox (Washington, DC: Acropolis Books, 1978): 137-53.
_____. “Man and Nature.” United Theological College Magazine [Bangalore India] 49 (1982-3): 32-36.
_____. “Man as Part of Nature.” In Is It Too Late? A Theology of Ecology (Beverly Hills, CA: Bruce, 1972): 83-91.
_____. “Man as Responsible Being.” In A Christian Natural Theology. (Philadelphia, PA: Westminster Press, 1974): 92-134.
_____. “Man in Process.” Concilium (May 1972): 31-47.
_____. “The Right to Kill.” In Matters of Life and Death (Louisville, KY: Westminster Press, 1991): 19-43. (discusses anthropocentrism)
_____. The Structure of Christian Existence. New York: Seabury Press, 1979 [1967].
_____. “Whitehead’s Philosophy and a Christian Doctrine of Man.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 32 (1964): 209-220.
_____. and David R. Griffin. “Human Existence.” In Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition (Philadelphia, PA: Westminster Press, 1976): 80-94.
Copeland, Warren. “Rights and Welfare Reform.” Process Studies 33, no. 2
(Fall-Winter 2004): 223-236.
Derr, Thomas S. “The Human Drama and God’s Gift of the Earth.” Anticipation 16 (1974): 30-32.
Desmet, Ronny. Review of The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding by Mark Johnson. In Process Studies 38, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2009): 158-61.
Dewey, John. Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology. New York: Henry Holt/The Modern Library, 1922. [abstract]
Dombrowski, Daniel A. “Thomas Nagel as a Process Philosopher.” American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 15, no. 2 (May 1994): 163-80. [abstract]
Eames, S. Morris. Pragmatic Naturalism: An Introduction. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois Press, 1977. [abstract]
Earley, Joseph E. Individuality and Cooperative Action. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1991. [abstract]
Edwards, Rem B. "People and Their Worth: Uniting Process and Axiology." Process Studies 38, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2009): 43-68. [abstract]
Engel, J. Ronald. “Novus Ordo Saeclorum.” Religious Humanism 16 (Winter 1982): 14-21. [abstract]
Faber, Roland. “Personsein am Ort der Leere.” Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie 44 (2002): 189-198. [abstract]
Fischer, Kathleen. Winter Grace: Spirituality for the Later Years. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1985. [abstract]
Fitzgerald, Desmond. “Is There an Unchanging Human Nature?” (unpubl.)
Gamwell, Franklin I. “The Purpose of Human Rights.” Mississippi College Law Review 22, no. 2 (Spring 2003): 239-261.
Gier, Nicholas and Petta, Johnson. “Hebrew and Buddhist Selves: A Constructive Postmodern Study.” Asian Philosophy 17, no. 1 (March 2007): 47-64. [abstract]
Grange, Joseph. "Process Thought and Confucian Values." Beijing Conference, June 17-20, 2002. 69-76.
Griffin, David R. “Human Liberation and the Reverence for Nature.” Anticipation 16 (1974): 25-30.
_____. “The Importance of Being Human: A Postmodern Vision.” In God & Religion In The Postmodern World (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989): 13-27.
Hartshorne, Charles. “Can Man Transcend His Animality?” Monist 55:2 (April 1971): 208-217.
_____. “Man in Nature.” In Experience, Existence, and the Good: Essays in Honor of Paul Weiss, ed., Irwin C. Lieb (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1961): 89-99.
_____. “Man’s Fragmentariness.” Wesleyan Studies in Religion 41:6 (1963-64
_____. "Philosophical Ideas and Enduring Peace." Comment in Approaches to World Peace, Fourth Symposium, eds. Lyman Bryson, Louis Finkelstein, and Robert M. MacIver (New York: Conference on Science, Philosophy, and Religion, 1944), 557.
_____. “Philosophical Ideas and World Peace.” Comment in Approaches to World Peace, Fourth Symposium, eds. Lyman Bryson, Louis Finkelstein, and Robert M. MacIver (New York: Conference on Science, Philosophy, and Religion, 1944), 597-98.
_____. “Selfishness in Man.” Peace Happiness Prosperity 8 (1971): 24-25.
_____. “The Unity of Man and the Unity of Nature.” Emory University Quarterly 11, no.3 (Oct. 1955): 129-141.
_____. Wisdom as Moderation: A Philosophy of the Middle Way. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1987. [abstract]
Haught, John F. "Theology, Evolution, and the Human Mind: How Much Can Biology Explain? Zygon 44, no. 4 (December 2009): 921-931. [abstract]
Hefner, Philip. “Hefner: Technology expresses our dynamic selves.” Science and Theology News 4, no. 4 (December 2003): 20-21.
Howe, J. Thomas. Faithful to the Earth: Nietzsche and Whitehead on God and the Meaning
of Human Life
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Jackson, Gordon E. “The Grandeur of Man.” (unpubl.) [abstract]
Janusz, Sharon and Glenn Webster. “The Problem of Persons.” Process Studies 20, no.3 (Fall 1991): 151-161.
Kamal, Muhammad. "The Self and the Other in Sufi Thought." Religion East & West 6 (October 2006):21-32. [abstract]
Kegley, Charles W. “Problems in the Contemporary Understanding of Man.” Lutheran World 12, no.1 (1965): 28-33. [abstract]
Koothottil, Abraham. “Life ‘After’ Death: Individual Survival or Universal Communion?” Jeevadhara 10, no.55 (Jan. – Feb. 1980): 63-87.
Kopf, Gereon. "Temporality and Personal Identity in the Thought of Nishida Kitaro." Philosophy East and West 52, no. 2 (April 2002): 224-245. [abstract]
Krishnamurti, J. and David Bohm. The Ending of Time. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1985. [abstract]
_____. The Future of Humanity: A Conversation. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986. [abstract]
Lango, John W. Review of After Whitehead: Rescher on Process Metaphysics. Edited by Michel Weber. Process Studies 35, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2006): 363-66.
Livezey, Lois Gehr. “Human Rights and Gender Justice: The Case of Domestic Violence.” Process Studies 33, no. 2 (2004): 199-222.
Lord, Harvey. “ A Review of Now What’s a Christian to do?, Ed. David B. Polk.” Encounter 56, no.4 (Autumn 1995) 412-14.
Marsh, Leslie. “Taking the Super Out of the Supernatural.” Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science 42, no. 2 (June 2007): 343-56. [abstract
Meland, Bernard E. Faith and Culture (New York: Oxford UP, 1953) [abstract]
_____. “Man’s Religious Outreach.” (unpubl.) [abstract]
_____. “The Nature of Man.” (unpubl.) [abstract]
Mellert, Robert B. “Man.” In What is Process Theology? (New York: Paulist Press, 1975): 64-74.
Mesle, C. Robert. “What Shall We Say to the Torturer? Moral Realism, Conscience, and Human Nature.” American Journal Theology and Philosophy 26, no. 1&2 (January-May, 2005): 129-145.
Mickey, Paul A. “Pastoral Care and Its Context: Towards a Process Conceptualization.” (unpubl.) [abstract]
Middleton, Darren. God, Literature and Process Thought. Ashgate Publishing Company: Burlington, 2002.[abstract]
Miller, David L. George Herbert Mead: Self, Language, and the World. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1973. [abstract]
Morris, Randall C. “Human Rights in a Process Perspective: Conversations with Douglas Sturm.” Process Studies 33, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2004): 195-198.
Nelson, Susan L. Healing the Broken Heart: Sin, Alienation and the Gift of Grace. St. Louis, MI: Chalice Press, 1997.
Northrop, F. S. C. Man, Nature, and God: A Quest for Life's Meaning. New York: Simon and Schuster/Trident, 1962. [abstract]
Oden, Thomas C. “From Event to Language: The Church’s Use of Gnostic Mythology.” Religion in Life (1967): 92-99. [abstract]
Outler, Albert. “A View of the Humanum in the Wesleyan Spirit.” (Unpubl.) [abstract]
Overman, Richard. “Pluralism, Suffering and the Organic Vision.” (Unpubl.) [abstract]
Palmer, Clare. “Religion in the Making? Animality, Savagery, and Civilization in the Work of A.N. Whitehead.” Society & Animals 8, no. 3 (2000): 287-304.
Park, Andrew Sung. From Hurt to Healing: A Theology of the Wounded. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2004. [abstract]
_______. The Wounded Heart of God; The Asian Concept of Han and the Christian Doctrine of Sin. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1993. [abstract]
Parker, Kelly A. Review of Varieties of Transcendental Experience: A Study in Constructive Postmodernism and The Gracing of Human Experience: Rethinking the Relationship between Nature and Grace by Donald L. Gelpi. Philosophy in Review 22, no. 4 (2002): 274-277.
Parsons, Barbara A. “The Importance of Man in Whitehead’s Philosophy.” Ph.D. Dissertation. Tulane University, 1970.
Pittenger, W. Norman. “The Human Person.” In Becoming and Belonging (Wilton, CT: Morehouse Publishing, 1989): 29-40.
_____. “Man.” In Unbounded Love: God and Man in Process (New York: Seabury Press, 1967): 52-63.
_____. “Man, the Person in Society.” In God in Process (London: SCM Press, 1967): 52-63.
_____. The Meaning of Being Human. New York: Pilgrim Press, 1982. [abstract]
_____. “The Nature of Human Nature.” Princeton Seminary Bulletin 64 (1971): 46-55.
_____. “On Becoming Human.” Theology 84 (1981): 3-11.
_____. “Who Man Is.” In God’s Way with Men (London: Catholic Book Club, 1969): 49-70.
Poland, Arlette. "If God Is a Verb, Then We Are 'Human Becomings'." Process Perspectives: Newsmagazine of the Center for Process Studies 30, no. 2 (Fall 2007): 5.
Potthoff, Harvey. “Rethinking the Doctrine of Man.” Iliff Review (1959): 13-23.
Power, W. L. “The Imago Dei and Man come of Age.” Iliff Review 27 (1970): 35-41.
Prozesky, Martin. “The Philosophical Anthropology of Alfred North Whitehead.” South African Journal of Philosophy 14, no. 2 (May 1995): 54-9. [abstract]
Robbins, Jerry K. “God’s Wrath: A Process Exposition” Dialog 33, no.4 (1994): 252-258. [abstract]
Schroeder, W. Widick. ""The Human Prospect and the 'Lord of History'": A Process Critique." Zygon 12, no. 1 (March 1977): 4-26.
_____. "Unity and Diversity Among Humans: A Framework for Interpretation." Zygon 13, no. 1 (March 1978): 65-82.
Stinson, Linda L. Process and Conscience: Toward a Theology of Human Emergence. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986.
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Strang, Veronica. "Introduction. Fluidscapes: Water, Identity and the Senses." Worldviews 10, no. 2 (2006): 147-54.
_____. "Substantial Connections: Water and Identity in an English Cultural Landscape." Worldviews 10, no. 2 (2006): 155-77. [abstract]
Sturm, Douglas. “Taking Human Rights Seriously: Relationality and Subjectivity.” Process Studies 33, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2004):237-257.
Tillich, Paul. Systematic Theology III. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963. [abstract]
Van der Veken, Jan. “Is Man the ‘Result’ of Evolution?” Jeevadhara 10, no.55 (Jan. – Feb. 1980): 6-16.
Van Hoogstraten, Hans Dirk. Deep Economy: Caring for Ecology, Humanity and Religion. Cambridge, UK: James Clarke and Co., 2001. (John Cobb and Herman Daly are big influence on this book) [abstract]
Weidig, Richard H. The Creative Advance: From History to Mystery. Berkeley: Berkeley West Publishing, 1987. [abstract]
Weiss, Paul. Beyond All Appearances. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1974. [abstract]
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Wiehl, Reiner. “Whitehead’s Cosmology of Feeling Between Ontology and Anthropology.” In Whitehead’s Metaphysics of Creativity, eds., Friedrich Rapp and Reiner Wiehl (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990): 127-151.
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Yonkers, Nicholas. “The Human Ego: A Rich Regnant ‘Corpuscular’ Society.” (unpubl.)
Zycinski, Joseph M. "Christian Theism and the Philosophical Meaning of Cosmic Evolution." Revista Porluguesa de Filosofia 61 (2005): 211-223. [abstract]