Process Thought and Theories of Human Nature       

Adams, E. M.  A Society Fit for Human Beings.  Suny Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought, ed. David R. Griffin.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. [abstract]

Ames, Roger T.. "Confucianism and Deweyan Pragmatism: A Dialogue." Journal of Chinese Philosophy 30, nos. 3&4 (September/December 2003): 403-417. [abstract]

Aubrey, Edwin E. “The Naturalistic Conception of Man.”  Journal of Religion 19 (1939): 189-200.

Barbour, Ian G. Nature, Human Nature, and God. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2002. [abstract]

_____. “Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Nature: Theological and Philosophical Reflections.”  Zygon 34, no. 3 (September 1999): 461-98. [Also In Neuroscience and the Person: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action eds. Robert John Russell, Nancey Murphy, Theo C. Meryering, Michael A. Arbib. (Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley, California, 1999] [abstract]  

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

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
(Lanham, MD:  Rowman & Littlefield, 2003) [abstract]

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.

Stokes, W. E., S.J. “Freedom as Perfection: Whitehead, Thomas, and Augustine.” [Freedom, Perfection, Aquinas, Augustine]

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]

_____.  “Nature, God, and Man.”  In Existence and Actuality:  Conversations with Charles Hartshorne, eds., John B. Cobb, Jr. and Franklin I. Gamwell (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1984), 113-21.

Wheeler, David L. “Second Desideratum: Expression of the Human Dilemma.”  In A Relational View of the Atonement (New York: Peter Lang, 1989): 21-33.

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.

Wieman, Henry Nelson. The Source of Human Good. Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 1946. [abstract

Williamson, Clark M. “The Human Question.” In Essentials of Christian Theology, ed. William C. Placher. (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003), 158-80.

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]