Process Thought, Power,  and Concepts of Omnipotence

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

Barbour, Ian.  “God’s Power:  A Process View.”  In The Work of Love: Creation as Kenosis (Grand Rapids, MI:  Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2001), 1-20.   

Barnhart, J.E. "Persuasive and Coercive Power in Process Metaphysics."  Process Studies 3, no.3 (Fall, 1973): 153-57. [abstract]

Basinger, David.  “Christian Theism and the Free Will Defence.” Sophia 20:33

_____.  "Divine Persuasion: Could the Process God Do More?" (unpubl.)

_____.  "Divine Power: Do Process Theists Have a Better Idea?"  In Process Theology, ed. Ronald H. Nash (Grand Rapids: Baker Book, 1987), 197-213. [abstract]

_____.  Divine Power in Process Theism: A Philosophical Critique.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988. [abstract]

_____.  "Griffin and Pike on Divine Power: Some Clarifications."  Philosophy Research Archives 10 (March 1985): 347-52.

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

_____, and Randall Basinger.  "Divine Omnipotence:  Plantinga vs. Griffin."  Process Studies 11, no.1 (Spring 1981): 11-24.

Bohler, Carolyn. "Coaches and Gods." In Coaches and Gods Seminar, Claremont, March 23, 2004. Haddon Conference Center: Claremont School of Theology. [Biblical Studies, God Concepts, Power]

Boulting, Noel E. "Conceptions of Power and God: A Possible Perician Lesson for Process Theology". Process Studies 34, no.1 (Spring-Summer 2005): 10-32.

Breazeale, Kathlyn A.  “Marriage After Patriarchy?: Partner Relationships and Public  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): 71-81.

_____. "Toward a Process Theology of Partnership: Redemption Through Intimacy and Mutual Empowerment." Paper presented at Center for Process Studies Seminar, Claremont, July 16, 2003.

Brock, Rita Nakashima. Review of God's Power: Traditional Understanding and Contemporary Challenges, by Anna Case-Winters. Process Studies 22, no. 1 (Spring 1993): 58-60.

Case-Winters, Anna. "A Critical Assessment of Hartshorne's Position." God’s Power: Traditional Understandings and Contemporary Challenges.  Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1990. 149-170. 

_____. "God’s Power."  Ph.D. Dissertation.  Vanderbilt University, 1990

_____. "Hartshorne."  God’s Power: Traditional Understandings and Contemporary Challenges.  Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1990. 129-148.

_____.  God’s Power: Traditional Understandings and Contemporary Challenges.  Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1990.

_____.  “What Do We Mean When We Affirm that God is ‘All-Powerful’?”  Encounter 57, no.3 (Summer 1996): 215-30.

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

Cobb, John B., Jr.  "Experienced Evil and the Power of God."  (unpubl.)

_____.  “Theodicy and Divine Omnipotence” Philosophy and Theological Discourse, Ed. Davis, Stephen T., New York:  St. Martin's, 1997,  199-203.

Davaney, Sheila Greeve.  Divine Power: A Study of Karl Barth and Charles Hartshorne.  Philadelphia:  Fortress Press, 1986.  [Harvard Dissertations in Religion series] [abstract]

Davies, Mark Youmans. “The Pacifism Debate in the Hartshorne-Brightman Correspondence.”  Process Studies 27, nos. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 1998): 200-14.

De Jonckheere, Claude. "Enquête whiteheadienne sur l'ethnopsychanalyse." Chromatikon II, (2006): 175-203.

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

_____. "Response to Boulting." Process Studies 34, no.1 (Spring-Summer 2005): 136-40

Donnelly, Doris.  "The Compulsion of Truth."  In Framing a Vision of the World: Essays in Philosophy, Science and Religion, eds. André Cloots and Santiago Sia (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1999): 231-46.

Epperly, Bruce.  “Miracles Without Supernaturalism: A Process-Relational Perspective.”  Encounter 67, no. 1 (2006): 47-61.

            . “Stature, Power, and Evangelism: The Theological Legacy of Bernard Loomer.” Encounter 67, no. 3 (2006): 231-44.

Faber, Roland.  “Apocalypse in God: On the Power of God in Process Eschatology.”  Process Studies 31, no.2 (Fall-Winter 2002): 64-96.

Farmer, Kathleen A.  "Wrestling With Omnipotence."  Creative Transformation 4, no.3 (Spring 1995) 3-5.

Farmer, Ronald L.  “Divine Power in the Apocalypse of John: Revelation 4-5 in Process Hermeneutics.” AAR/SBL Abstracts (1993): 12-13. [abstract] [Biblical Studies, Power]

Ferris, Neal W., Rev.  “Pondering the Power of God.”  A Sermon at the First Unitarian Society of Exeter, NH.  October 5, 1997.

Ford, Lewis S.  "The Logic of Divine Power."  (unpubl.) [Biblical Studies, Power]

_____.  Review:  Divine Power in Process Theism: A Philosophical Critique.  Faith and Philosophy 8, no.1 (Jan. 1991): 124-27.

_____.  "The Rhetoric of Divine Power." Perspectives in Religious Studies 14, no.3 (Fall 1987): 233-38.

Fox, Mary Johanna. “The Meaning of the Notion of Divine Power in the Neoclassical Theism of Charles Hartshorne.” Ph.D. Dissertation. Fordham University, 1977.

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

Gelber, Sidney and Kathleen Wallace.  “Justice Buchler:  Nature, Power, and Prospect.”  Process Studies 15, no.2 (Summer 1986): 106-19. [North American Philosophers, Nature, Power]

Gier, Nicholas F.  "Three Types of Divine Power."  Process Studies 20, no.4 (Winter 1991): 221-32.

Graves, Thomas. “A Critique of Process Theodicy from an African Perspective.”  Process Studies 17, no.2 (Summer 1988): 103-11. [abstract] [African, Evil, Power]

Griffin, David R.  God, Power, and Evil:  A Process Theodicy.  Philadelphia:  Westminster, 1976. [Chapters 10, 15, 17 on omnipotence]

_____.  "The Power of God and the Power of Imitation." (unpubl. sermon)

_____.  "A Question of Values, A Question of Power."  1993. [A Quasi-Sermon]

_____.  “The Traditional Doctrine of Omnipotence.”  In Evil Revisited:  Responses and Reconsiderations.  Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1991, pp. 55-69.

Gruenler, Royce G.  "Theodicy, Anthropodicy, and Power in Process Theism: A Critique."  (unpubl.)

Hare, Peter H. and Edward H. Madden.  "Evil and Persuasive Power."  Process Studies 2, no.1 (Spring 1972): 44-48. [abstract]

Hartshorne, Charles.  Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984.

_____.  ‘Omnipotence.’  In An Encyclopedia of Religion, ed., Vergilius Ferm  (New York:  The Philosophical Library, 1945), p. 545-546.

Hay, Eldon.  "Divine Activity: A Process Perspective." (unpubl.)

Holmes, A. F.  "Why God Cannot Act."  In Process Theology, ed. Ronald H. Nash (Grand Rapids: Baker Book, 1987), 177-95.  [abstract]

Howell, Nancy R.. “A Feminist Critique of Divine Omnipotence” (unpublished, April 19, 1988)  

_____.  "Generosity and Power: When It Is More Blessed to Receive."  Creative Transformation 4, no.3 (Spring 1995) 6-9.

Kaufman, William E.  “The Critique of Divine Omnipotence in Process Philosophy” (April 1986)

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

Keller, James A.  "The Power of God and Miracles in Process Theism."  Journal of the American Academy of Religion 63, no.1 (Spring 1995): 105-26.  [abstract]

_____. Problems of Evil and the Power of God. UK: Ashgate Publishing/MPG Books Ltd., Bodmin, Cornwall, 2007. [abstract]

_____.  Review: David Basinger, Divine Power in Process Theism.  Process Studies 17, no.3 (Fall 1988): 200-205.

Kuntz, Paul. “Lotze as a Process Philosopher.” Idealistic Studies 9, no. 3 (September 1979): 229-42. [abstract] [Aesthetics, Creation, Omnipotence]

Lewis, Delmas. “Timelessness and Divine Agency.” International Journal for Philosophy of Relgion 22 (1987): 143-59. [Agency, Power, Time]

Loomer, Bernard.  "Two Conceptions of Power."  Process Studies 6, no.1 (Spring 1976): 5-32.

Lubarsky, Sandra B. "Jonas, Whitehead, and the Problem of Power." In The Legacy of Hans Jonas: Judaism and the Phenomenon of Life. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008, 397-417.

Meeks, M. Douglas.  "God’s Suffering Power and Liberation."  Journal of Religious Thought 33, no.2 (Autumn 1976): 44-54.

Mesle, C. Robert. “Aesthetic Value and Relational Power: An Essay on Personhood.” Process Studies 13, no.1 (Spring 1983): 59-70. [Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Power, Whitehead]

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

Moore, Mary Elizabeth Mullino.  “Poetry, Prophecy, and Power.” Religious Education 93, no. 3 (Summer 1998): 268-87.

Muray, Leslie A. "Whitehead and Democracy in East Asia. " Process Studies 35, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2006): 338-43.

Murphy, Arthur E.  “Ideals and Ideologies: 1917-1947.”  The Philosophical Review 56, no. 4 (July 1947): 374-389. [abstract]

Pailin, David.  "The Genuinely Active God."  The Modern Churchman 27, no.4 (1985): 16-32.

Pike, Nelson.  "Process Theodicy and the Concept of Power."  Process Studies 12, no.3 (Fall 1982): 148-67.

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

Pittenger, Norman.  "The Divine Activity."  Encounter 47, no.3 (Summer 1986): 257-266.

_____.  “What about Evil?”  Modern Churchman's Union Pamphlet 12, pp. 1-12.

Poling, James N. "God, Sex and Power." Theology and Sexuality 11, no. 2 (2005): 55-70. [abstract] 

Polkinghorne, John. “Embodied Existence: Agency.”  In Scientists As Theologians. John Polkinghorne, London: SPCK, 1996, 26-41. [Agency, Science and Religion, Divine Power]

Pratt, Douglas.  "God in Action and Interaction."  Asia Journal of Theology 2, no.2 (1988): 459-68.

Oord, Thomas Jay.  “Divine Power and Love: An Evangelical Process Proposal.”  Koinonia  10/1 (1998): 1-18.

Ray, R. J.  Review:  David Basinger, Divine Power and Process Theism: A Philosophical Critique.  International Journal of Philosophy of Religion 32 (1992): 120-21.

Thomas, Owen., ed.  God’s Activity in the World:  The Contemporary Problem (Chico, CA:  Scholars Press, 1983) [Articles by Ogden, Cobb, Griffin]

_____.  "Second Thoughts on Divine Agency" (unpubl.) [On David Tracy and Grace Jantzen]

Ushenkow, Andrew P.  Power and Events: An Essay on Dynamics in Philosophy.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1946.

Van den Brink, Gijsbert, “Almightiness and the Problem of Evil,” In Almighty God: A Study of the Doctrine of Divine Omnipotence  (Kampen,Netherlands:  Kok Pharos Publishing House, 1993)

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

Walker, Theodore, Jr. “Review: The Fountain Arethuse:  A Novel Set In The University Town of Leuven, by Marian F. Sia and Santiago Sia.”  In Process Studies 28, no. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 1999): 148-9.

Weber, Michel. "La virtualite en proces. Relativisation de l'acte et de la puissance chez A. N. Whitehead." Revue Internationale de Philosophie 61, no. 2 (June 2006): 223-241.

Young, Henry James. “Black Theology: Providence and Evil.” Duke Divinity School Review 40, no.2 (1975): 87-96. [Black Theology, Evil, Freedom, Power]

_____.  “The Power of God and Marginal Existence.” (unpubl.) [Black Theology, God Concepts, Justice, Power]