Bibliography of Bernard Loomer's Process Thought
Books
"Theological Significance of the Method of Empirical Analysis in the Philosophy of A. N. Whitehead." Ph. D. Dissertation. University of Chicago, 1942.
Unfoldings. Berkeley, CA: First Unitarian Church, 1985.
Unfoldings II. Berkeley, CA: First Unitarian Church, 1986.
Articles
"The Aim of Divinity Education." Divinity School News 16 (1949): 1-6.
"An Atomic Energy Proposal." University of Chicago Magazine 73 (Autumn 1979): 21-6.
"Bernard Eugene Meland." Quest [A Journal of Student Opinion] 8, no.3 (Aug. 84): 1-2.
"Christian Faith and Process Philosophy." Journal of Religion 29 (1949): 181-203. also in Process Philosophy and Christian Thought. Delwin Brown, Ralph E. James Jr. and Gene Reeves, eds. New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. 1971. 70-98.
"Christology." (unpubl.)
"Dimensions of Freedom." Religious Experience and Process Theology, eds. Harry Cargas and Bernard Lee (New York: Paulist Press, 1976), 323-39.
"The Doctrine of Creation Revisited: A Theology of Nature." (unpubl.)
"Dores R. Sharpe: Portrait of a Christian Rebel." Foundations: A Baptist Journal of History and Theology 24 (1981): 99-121.
"Ely on Whitehead's God." Journal of Religion 24 (1944): 162-79. also in Process Philosophy and Christian Thought. Delwin Brown, Ralph E. James Jr. and Gene Reeves, eds. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971. 264-286.
"Empirical Theology Within Process Thought." The Future of Empirical Theology, ed. Bernard Meland (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1969), 149-73.
"The Federated Theological Faculty." The Divinity School News 13 (1946): 1-3. [University of Chicago]
"The Federated Theological Faculty Today." The Chicago Theological Seminary Register 39 (1949): 6-12.
"The Free and Relational Self." In Belief and Ethics, ed. W. Widick Schroeder (Chicago, IL: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1978), 69-86.
"The Future of Process Philosophy." In Process Philosophy: Basic Writings, ed. Jack R. Sibley and Pete A. Gunter (Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1978), 513-38.
"Man and His Universe: And the Nature of the Universe to Which He is Related." In Religion in Higher Education (Mount Vernon, IA: Cornell College Press, 1954), 63-71.
"Meland on God." American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 5, nos.2-3 (May & Sept. 1984): 138-43.
"Neo-Naturalism and Neo-Orthodoxy." Journal of Religion 28 (1948): 79-91.
"Niebuhr's Critique of Liberalism." (unpubl.)
"On Committing Yourself to a Relationship." Process Studies 16, no.4 (Winter 1987): 255-63.
"The Price of Greatness ('Ford to Nixon')." In Religious Experience and Process Theology, eds. Harry J. Cargas and Bernard Lee (New York: Paulist Press, 1976), 341-5.
"Process Theology: Origins, Strengths, Weaknesses." Process Studies 16, no.4 (Winter 1987): 245-54.
"A Process-Relational Conception of Creation." In Cry of the Environment: Rebuilding the Christian Creation Tradition, eds. Philip Joranson and Ken Butigan (Santa Fe, NM: Bear & Co., 1984), 321-8.
"Process Thought and Religious Language." (unpubl.) [abstract available]
"Reflections on Theological Education." Criterion 4 (1965): 3-8.
"Reinhold Niebuhr's The Self and the Dramas of History." Pastoral Psychology 9 (1958): 17-20.
"Religion and the Mind of the University." In Liberal Learning and Religion, ed. Amos N. Wilder (New York: Harper, 1951), 147-68.
"Remarks by Bernard M. Loomer." Alumni (1974): 1-4. [University of Chicago]
"Response to David R. Griffin." Encounter 36 (Fall 1975): 361-9. [On "Relativism, Divine Causation, and Biblical Theology"]
"S-I-Z-E." Criterion 13, no.3 (Spring 1974): 5-8.
"The Size of God." (1979, unpubl.) American Journal of Theology and Philsophy 8, nos.1-2 (Jan-May 1987): 20-51. Also in The Size of God: The Theology of Bernard Loomer in Context, eds. William Dean and Larry Axel (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1987).
“S-I-Z-E is the Measure.” In Religious Experience and Process Theology, ed. Harry Cargas and Bernard Lee (New York: Paulist Press, 1976). 69-76.
"A Theology of Freedom." Motive (1953): 8-12.
"Theology in the American Grain." Process Philosophy and Social Thought, eds. John B. Cobb, Jr. and W. Widick Schroeder (Chicago, IL: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion), 141-52. [abstract available]
"Tillich's Theology of Correlation." Journal of Religion 36 (1956): 150-6.
"Two Conceptions of Power." Process Studies 6, no.1 (Spring 1976): 5-32.
"Vita." (unpubl.)
"The Web of Life." In The Nature of Life, ed. William Heidcamp (Baltimore, MD: University Park Press, 1978), 93-109.
"Whitehead's Method of Empirical Analysis." In Process Theology: Basic Writings, ed. E. H. Cousins (New York: Newman Press, 1971), 67-82.
"Wieman's Stature as a Contemporary Theologian." The Empirical Theology of Henry Nelson Wieman. Robert W. Bretall, ed. Carbondale: SIV Press, 1969. 392-397.
Secondary Bibliography
Arnott, Bob. “Bernard M. Loomer: Hail and Farewell.” (unpubl.)
Axel, Larry E. "Reshaping the Task of Theology." American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 8, nos.1-2 (Jan-May 1987): 59-62.
Axel, Rebecca C. "Meland and Loomer: Forging an Alternative to Patriarchal Secularism." New Essays in Religious Naturalism. eds. W. Creighton Peden and Larry E. Axel. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1993. 1-10.
Brown, Delwin. "The Ambiguity of Ambiguity: A Response to Loomer's 'Size of God'." American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 8, nos.1-2 (Jan-May 1987): 56-8.
Cobb, John B., Jr. "Response to Loomer." American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 8, nos.1-2 (Jan-May 1987): 52-5.
Conner, David E. “Quantum Non-Locality as an Indication of Theological Transcendence.” American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 27, no. 2&3 (May/September 2006): 259-284.
Dean, William. "Bernard Loomer and the Irony of Empiricism." Process Studies 16, no.4 (Winter 1987): 264-74.
_____. "Introduction: From Integrity to Size." American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 8, nos.1-2 (Jan-May 1987): 1-17.
_____. "Published Works by Bernard M. Loomer." American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 8, nos.1-2 (Jan-May 1987): 18-9.
Dorrien, Gary. "The New Metaphysics and Divine Relativity: Charles Hartshorne, Bernard M. Loomer, Daniel Day Williams, Bernard E. Meland, and the Religion of Creative Process." The Making of American Liberal Theology: Crisis, Irony and Postmodernity 1950-2005. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006. 58-132.
Epperly, Bruce G. "Bernard M. Loomer (1912-1985)." Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought Vol. II. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Heusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2008. 604-608. [abstract]
Fox, Douglas. "Bernard Loomer's Concept of 'Interconnectedness': A Pious Naturalism." In God, Values, And Empiricism: Issues In Philosophical Theology, eds. W. Creighton Peden and Larry E. Axel (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1989), 53-63.
Frankenberry, Nancy. "Bernard Loomer: An Aesthetic Order of Relations." In Religion and Radical Empiricism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987), 145-54.
_____. "Taking Measure of 'The Size of God'." American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 8, nos.1-2 (Jan-May 1987): 77-84.
Kaufman, Gordon D. "Empirical Realism in Theology: An Examination of Some Themes in Meland and Loomer."New Essays in Religious Naturalism. eds. W. Creighton Peden and Larry E. Axel. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1993. 135-160
Lee, Bernard J. "Bernard M. Loomer: The Art and Science of Conversation." Process Studies 16, no.4 (Winter 1987): 241-4.
_____. "Loomer on Deity: A Long Night's Journey into Day." American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 8, nos.1-2 (Jan-May 1987): 63-76.
_____. "Song of Himself." Process Studies 16, no.4 (Winter 1987): 275-82.
Meland, Bernard. "In Response to Loomer." American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 5, nos.2-3 (May-Sept. 1984): 144-55.
Miller, Randolf C. "Review: William Dean and Larry Axel, eds., The Size of God: The Theology of Bernard Loomer." Process Studies 16, no.4 (Winter 1987): 299-305.
Shaw, Marvin. "The Romantic Love of Evil: Loomer's Proposal of a Reorientation in Religious Naturalism." American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 10, no.1 (January 1989): 33-42.