Process Thought and Naturalism

Allan, George and Merle F. Allshouse, eds. Nature, Truth, and Value: Exploring the Thinking of Frederick Ferré. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005. [abstract]

Berne, Vincent. Panexpérientialisme et subjectivation: le sens de l'intériorité chez Whitehead. Chromatikon II (2006): 19-34.

Berthrong, John. “Review of Two Great Truths: A New Synthesis of Scientific Naturalism and Christian Faith,” by David Ray Griffin. Theological Studies 67, no. 1 (March 2006): 219-220.

Boehlke, Paul R., Laurie M. Knapp, and Rachel L. Kolander. "How Science Works: Foundations, Method, and Teleology." Zygon 41, no. 2 (June 2006): 415-425.

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

Brogaard, Berit. “The Coup de Grace for Mechanistic Metaphysics: Capek’s New Philosophy of Nature.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 36, no. 1 (Winter, 2000): 75-108.

Brown, Delwin. "Religion and Reverence for Nature: Donald A. Crosby's Religion of Nature." American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 26, no. 3 (September 2005): 171-83.   

Calore, Gary Stephen. “Temporality and Radical Naturalism.”  Ph.D. Dissertation. Bryn Mawr, 1986. [Whitehead, Buchler]

Clarke, Bowman.  Language and Natural Theology.  The Hague: Monton, 1966. [Analytic Theology, Language, Naturalism]Language and Natural Theology.  The Hague: Monton, 1966. [Analytic Theology, Language, Naturalism]

Clayton, Philip., ed. All That Is: A Naturalistic Faith for the Twenty-First Century - Arthur Peacocke. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007. [abstract]

Clayton, Philip. God and Contemporary Science. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997. [abstract]

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

_____. “On the Value of Panentheistic Analogy: A Response to Willem Drees.” Zygon, 35, 3 (2000): 699-704

_____. ‘Philosophical Naturalism.’ Review of “Philosophical Naturalism,” by Peter A. French, T. E. Uehling Jr., and Naturalism: A Critical Appraisal” by H. K Wettstein, Steven J. Wagner and Richard Warner. Zygon, 33 (1998): 299-303.

Comstock, W. Richard. “Naturalism and Theology.”  Heythorp Journal 8, no.2 (April 1967): 181-190.

Conner, David Emory. "Whitehead the Naturalist." American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 30, no. 2 (May 2009), 168-186

Conway, Charles G. "Defining Spirit": An Encounter between Naturalists and Trans-naturalists." Theology and Science 5, No. 2 (July 2007): 169-183. [abstract]

Corrington, Robert S. Ecstatic Naturalism: Signs of the World. Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994.

_____. Nature and Spirit: An Essay in Ecstatic Naturalism. New York: Fordham University Press, 1992. [abstract]

_____. Nature's Self: Our Journey From Origin to Spirit. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1996. [abstract]

_____. “Neville's 'Naturalism' and the Location of God.”  In Interpreting Neville, eds. J. Harley Chapman and Nancy K. Frankenberry (Albany: State University of New York, 1999), 127-46.

______. “Response to My Critics.” The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 26, no. 3 (September 2005): 263-272. 

_____. “Three Conventional Notions Ignore the Fullness of Nature.” Research News, 20.

Crosby, Donald A. “Naturism as a Form of Religious Naturalism.”  Zygon 38, no.1 (March 2003): 117-120.

_____. “The Distinctiveness of Religion and Religious Value.” American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 26, no. 3 (September 2005): 199-206.

_____. Novelty. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005. [abstract]

_____. A Religion of Nature. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. [abstract]

_____. “Transcendence and Immanence in a Religion of Nature.” American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 24, no. 3 (September 2003): 242-256.

Crosby, Donald A. and Charley D. Hardwick, eds. Religious Experience and Ecological Responsibility. New York: Peter Lang,  1996. [abstract]

Dean, William. The Religious Critic in American Culture.  Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1994. [abstract]

Drees, Willem B. “Naturalism, Morality and Religion.” 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): 131-144.

_____. “Should Religious Naturalists Promote a Naturalistic Religion?” Zygon 33, no.4 (December 1998): 617-33.

Eames, S. Morris. Pragmatic Naturalism: An Introduction. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois Press, 1977. [abstract]

Edwards, Rem B. What Caused the Big Bang? Amsterdam: Rodopi B.V., 1994. [abstract]

Gelwick, Richard. "Michael Polyani's Search for Truth: Michael Polyani's Daring Epistemology and the Hunger for Ideology." Zygon 40, no.1 (March 2005): 63-76. [abstract]

Gier, Nicholas F. “A. N. Whitehead’s Theistic Naturalism: An Argument for God from Biology.” [???]

_____. “Whitehead, Confucius, and the Aesthetics of Virtue.” Asian Philosophy 14, no. 2 (2004). [Aesthetics, Non-theism, Naturalism]

Goldsmith, Emanuel S. “Mordecai M. Kaplan, Religious Naturalism, and Evolving Jewish Thought.” 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): 145-156.

_____. “Salvational Zionism and Religious Naturalism in the Thought of Mordecai M. Kaplan.”  Process Studies 22, no. 4 (Winter 1993): 204-10.

Goodenough, Ursula. “Religious Naturalism and Naturalizing Morality.” Zygon 38, no. 1 (March 2003): 101-109. [abstract]

_____. The Sacred Depths of Nature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Grange, Joseph. "Dao, Technology, and American Naturalism." Philosophy East and West 51, no. 3 (July 2001): 363-377.

Greene, John C. “Impressions of the Claremont Conference & Ernst Mayr.”  Reports of the National Center for Science Education 24, no. 5 (Sep-Oct 2004): 34-37.

_____.  “Balfour v. Huxley on Evolutionary Naturalism: A 21st Century Perspective.”  Science and Christian Belief 15.1. April, 2003, 41-63. [Paper presented at the conference of "Religious Interpretation of Evolutionary Biology: Neo-Darwinism in Dialogue with Lynn Margulis and Process Thought." (Oct. 21-24 2004)] 1-28. [abstract]

Griffin, David Ray. “Divine Activity: Beyond Supernaturalism and Atheism.” [PM 10:1]

_____. God and Religion in the Postmodern World: Essays in Postmodern Theology.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. [abstract]

_____. Religion and Scientific Naturalism: Overcoming the Conflicts. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. [abstract]

_____. “Religious Experience, Naturalism, and the Social Scientific Study of Religion.”  Journal of the American Academy of Religion 68, no.1 (March 2000): 99-125.

_____. “Rejoinder to Preus and Segal.”  Journal of the American Academy of Religion 68, no.1 (March 2000): 143-49.

_____. “A Richer or a Poorer Naturalism? A Critique of Willem Drees's 'Religion, Science and Naturalism'.”  Zygon 32, no. 4 (Dec. 1997): 593-614. [abstract]

_____. “Scientific Naturalism: A Great Truth That Got Distorted.”  Theology and Science 2, no.1 (April 2004): 9-30.

_____. “Scientific Naturalism, the Mind-Body Relation, and Religious Experience.” Zygon 37, no. 2 (June 2002): 361-80.

_____. Two Great Truths: A New Synthesis of Scientific Naturalism and Christian Faith. Louisville & London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004. [abstract]

_____. "Morality and Scientific Naturalism: Overcoming the Conflicts."  in Value, Judgments, God, and Ecological Ecumenism:  Essays in Honor of Eugene Thomas Long, eds., Hackett, Jeremiah and Jerald Wallulis.  Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, 81-104.

_____. "Neo-Darwinism and Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism:Toward a Scientific-Religious-Moral Naturalism." (unpubl.) [Paper presented at the conference of "Religious Interpretation of Evolutionary Biology: Neo-Darwinism in Dialogue with Lynn Margulis and Process Thought." (Oct. 21-24, 2004)]: 1-37.

Hardwick, Charley D. “Foundational Elements in a Naturalistic Theology.” 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): 189-199.

_____. “The Power of Religious Naturalism in Karl Peters’s Dancing With the Sacred.” In Zygon 40, no. 3 (September 2005) 667-681. [abstract

_____. “Theological Naturalism Today.”  Zygon 38, no.1 (March 2003): 111-116.

_____. “Theological Naturalism and the Nature of Religion: On Not Begging the Question.”  Zygon (March, 1987): 21-35.

Hart, Thomas N. “Whitehead's Critique of Scientific Materialism.”  New Scholas 43 (Spring 1969): 229-251. [abstract]

Haught, John F. “The Emergent Environment and the Problem of Cosmic Purpose.”  Environmental Ethics 8 (Summer 1986): 139-50. [abstract]

_____. “Behind the Veil: Evolutionary Naturalism and the Question of Immortality” In World without End: Christian Eschatology from a Process Perspective. (Grand Rapids & Cambridge: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005), 150-176.

_____. “Science and Scientism: the Importance of a Distinction.”  Zygon 40, no. 2 (June 2005): 363-368. [abstract

Hefner, Philip. “Religion goes au naturale in Winter Zygon.” Science and Theology News 4, no. 4 (December 2003): 13.

Hendel, Charles W. “The Subjective as a Problem: An Essay in Criticism of Naturalistic and Existential Philosophies.”  Philosophical Review 62 (1953): 327-354.

Howe, J. Thomas. "Response to David Conner's "Whitehead the Naturalist." American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 30, no. 2 (May 2009), 168-186.

Inbody, Tyron.  The Constructive Theology of Bernard Meland: Postliberal Empirical Realism.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995. [abstract]

Klocker, H. R. “A God for Naturalism.”  (unpubl.) [Non-theism, Atheism, Naturalism]

Laszlo, Ervin. The Systems View of the World. New York: George Braziller, 1972.

Loomer, Bernard M. “Neo-Naturalism and Neo-orthodoxy.”  Journal of Religion 28 (1948): 79-91.

Marsh, Leslie. “Taking the Super Out of the Supernatural.” Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science 42, no. 2 (June 2007): 343-56. [abstract]

Marsoobian, Armen, Kathleen Walace, and Robert S. Corrington, eds. Nature's Perspectives: Prospects for Ordinal Metaphysics. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991. [abstract]

Martin, J. A. “H. N. Wieman, Theistic Naturalist.” [???]

Martin, Oliver. “Whitehead’s Naturalism and God.”  Review of Religion 3 (1939): 149-160.

Meland, Bernard. “Religion Rooted in Nature.” [???]

_____. “Roots of Religious Naturalism.” (unpubl.) [abstract]

Mesle, C. Robert. “Review: Religion and Scientific Naturalism: Overcoming the Conflicts, by David Ray Griffin.  In Process Studies 31, no.1 (2002): 177-181.

Milligan, Charles S. “The Eco-Religious Case for Naturalistic Pantheism.” In Religious Experience and Ecological Responsibility, eds. Donald A. Crosby and Charley D. Hardwick. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1996, 235-255.

Muray, Leslie A. “Romanticism, Radical Empiricism, and Science: The Mystical Naturalism of Bernard E. Meland.”  (unpubl.)

Neville, Robert Cummings “Comments on Nature’s Religion and Robert Corrington’s “Aesthetic Naturalism.”“ The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 26, no. 3 (September 2005): 254-262.

Orr, Matthew. "Is Nature Enough? Robert Frost Replies in "The Most of It".  Zygon 40, no. 3 (September 2005), 750-767. [abstract

Park, Jinsun. “Prehending God: A Whiteheadian Exploration of Religious Experience.” Ph.D. Dissertation. Claremont Graduate University, 2005.

Parsons, Howard L. “Religious Naturalism and the Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne.”  In Process and Divinity, eds., W. L. Reese and Eugene Freeman. La Salle, IL: Open Court Publishing Co., 1964, pp. 533-560.

Peden, W. Creighton and Larry Axel, eds. New Essays in Religious Naturalism. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1993. [abstract]

Peters, Karl E. “Confessions of a Practicing Naturalistic Theist: A Response to Hardwick, Pederson, and Peterson.” Zygon 40, no. 3 (September 2005): 701-720.

 _____. Dancing with the Sacred: Evolution, Ecology, and God. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2002. [abstract]

_____. “Reflections of a Naturalistic-Evolutionary-Practical Theologian in Conversation with Gallagher and Pangerl.” American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 26, no. 3 (September 2005): 224-237.

Peterson, Gregory R. “Dancing With Karl Peters.” Zygon 40, no. 3 (September 2005), 691-699. [abstract]

Porter, Andrew W. “Naturalism, Naturalism by Other Means, and Alternatives to Naturalism.”  Theology and Science 1, no.2 (October 2003): 221-237.

Preus, J. Samuel. “Response: Explaining Griffin.”  Journal of the American Academy of Religion 68, no.1 (March 2000): 127-32.

Segal, Robert A. “Response: In Defense of Social Scientific Naturalism: A Response to David Ray Griffin.”  Journal of the American Academy of Religion 68, no.1 (March 2000): 133-41.

Shaw, Marvin C. Nature's Grace: Essays on H.N. Wieman's Finite Theism. New York: Peter Lang, 1995. [abstract] [North American Philosophers, Naturalism]

_____. “The Romantic Love of Evil: Loomer’s Proposal of a Reorientation in Religious Naturalism.”  American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 10:1 (January, 1989): 33-42.

_____.  “Wieman’s Misunderstanding of Dewey:  The Christian Century Discussion.”  Zygon 22, no.1 (March, 1987): 7-19. [North American Philosophers, Naturalism]

Sibley,  Jack R. "A Defense of Naturalistic Theism." Encounter 68, no. 2 (Spring, 2007): 33-38.

Stone, Jerome A. “Charley Hardwick’s Dichotomies: God-Language, Determination, and the Subject-Object Dichotomy.” American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 17, no. 3 (September, 1996): 279-293.

_____. “The Line Between Religious Naturalism and Humanism: G. B. Foster and A. E. Haydon.”  American Journal of Theology & Philosophy. 20/3 (September 1999): 217-240.

_____. The Minimalist Vision of Transcendence: A Naturalist Philosophy of Religion. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.

_____. “Power and Goodness of the Object of the Religious Attitude: Axiological Determinacy and Ambiguity in Recent Religious Naturalism.”  American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 25, no. 3 (September 2004): 225-246.

_____. “Religious Naturalism and the Religion-Science Dialogue: A Minimalist View.” Zygon 37, no. 2 (June 2002): 381-394. [abstract]

_____. “A Symposium – Naturalism: Varieties and Issues – Introduction.” Zygon 38, no.1 (March 2003): 85-87. [abstract]

_____. “Varieties of Religious Naturalism.”  Zygon 38, no.1 (March 2003): 89-93.

Tapp, Robert B. “Donald Crosby’s Religion of Nature: Some Second Thoughts.”  American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 26, no. 3 (September 2005): 184-198.

Towne, Edgar A. "The Variety of Panentheisms." Zygon 40, no. 3 (September 2005): 779-786. [abstract

Van Till, Howard J. "Does Neo-Darwinism Have a Problem that Process Theology Can Fix?"(unpub.) [A paper presented at the conference of "Religious Interpretation of Evolutionary Biology: Neo-Darwinism in Dialogue with Lynn Margulis and Process Thought." (Oct. 21-24, 2004)] 

_____. "From Calvinism to Claremont: Now That's Evolution!: One Scientist's Reformation from Calvin's Supernaturalim to Griffin's Naturalism." (unpub.) [A paper presented at the conference of "Religious Interpretation of Evolutionary Biology: Neo-Darwinism in Dialogue with Lynn Margulis and Process Thought." (Oct. 21-24, 2004)]

Whitehead, Alfred North. Nature and Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Whitehead, Alfred North. The Concept of Nature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971. [abstract]

Wieman, Henry N. and Bernard E. Meland. “Rooted in [the] Tradition of Naturalism: Alfred N. Whitehead.”  In American Philosophies Of Religion, by Henry N. Wieman and Bernard E. Meland, 228-241. Chicago and New York: Willett, Clark, & Company, 1936.

Wildman, Wesley J. “Comparative Natural Theology.” American Journal of Theology & Philosophy  27, no. 2&3 (May/September 2006): 173-190.

Williams, Daniel Day. “Christianity and Naturalism: An Informal Statement.”  Union Seminary Quarterly Review 12 (1957): 47-53.

_____. “The Development of Modern Naturalism.” (unpubl.) [Bibliography]

_____. “Modern Naturalism and the Christian Faith.” (unpubl.) [Bibliography]

Zimmerman, Michael E.  Toward a New Religious Image of Humanity in Light of Contemporary Science (unpubl.)

Zycinski, Joseph M.  "Christian Theism and the Philosophical Meaning of Cosmic Evolution."  Revista Porluguesa de Filosofia 61 (2005): 211-223. [abstract]