Process Thought and Human Sexuality

Adell, Arvid.  “Process Thought and the Liberation of Homosexuals.” Christian Century (January 17, 1979): 46-48.

Balmer, Randall.  “The Enemy Among Us: American Fundamentalists and the Theology of Fear.”  (unpubl.)

Beardslee, William A. “Sex:  Biological Bases of Hope.” In Religious Experience and Process Theology, eds., Harry J. Cargas and Bernard Lee.  New York: Paulist Press, 1976 pp. 175-194.

_____, and John B. Cobb, Jr.  “The Bible, the Church, and the Family.”  Open Hands, 5:2 (Fall 1989):  4-5.  [same-sex families]

Bennett, Joel B. Time and Intimacy: A New Science of Personal Relationships. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000. [abstract]

Breazeale, Kathlyn A.  "Don't Blame It on the Seeds:  Toward a Feminist Process Understanding of Anthropology, Sin, and Sexuality."  Process Studies 22, no. 2 (Summer 1993): 71-3.

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

_____, and Thomas P. Green.  “A Wedding Liturgy in a Process Relational Vision.”  Creative Transformation 1, no.3 (Spring 1992): 9-10.  

_____, and William A. Beardslee.  “Teenage Sexuality and Spirituality: Can These Two Become One?”  Process and Faith Booklet, 1992.

Brizee, Robert.  “The Variety and Complexity of Lusting.” (unpubl.)

Bromell, David J.  Songs from the Midst of the Flames (ColCom Press, 6 Albert Hall Dr., Red Beach, OREWA, Aotearoa—New Zealand, 1995)

Castuera, Ignacio.  "Baptism, Bread, and Bonds: Church Rites for Gay and Lesbian Christians."  In Homosexuality and Christian Faith: Questions of Conscience for the Chruches, ed. Walter Wink (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1999), 121-27.

_____.  "Wesley, Process and Liberation Theologies: A Test Case." In Wesleyan Theology Today: A Bicentinnial Theological Consultation, ed. Theodore Runyon (Nashville, TN: Kingswood Books, United Methodist Publication House, 1985), 95-104.

Clark, J. Michael.  “Queering the Apocalypse: Reading Catherine Keller’s Apocalypse Now and Then.”  Journal of Men’s Studies 7, no.2 (Winter 1999): 233-244.  

Cobb, John B., Jr.  "Being Christian about Homosexuality."  In Homosexuality and Christian Faith: Questions of Conscience for the Chruches, ed. Walter Wink (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1999), 89-93.

_____.  “The Christian Understanding of Sexuality.”  (unpubl.)

_____.  “Is the Church Ready to Legislate on Sex?” Occasional Papers (United Methodist Board of Higher Education and Ministry] 55 (January 25, 1984):  [???]

_____.  “The Mission of the Church Today, Part II.”  Creative Transformation 1:3 (Spring 1992):  1,8. [homosexuality]

_____. Postmodernism and Public Policy: Reframing Religion, Culture, Education, Sexuality, Class, Race, Politics, and the Economy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. [abstract]

_____.  “The Right to Love.”  In Matters of Life and Death.  Louisville, KY:  Westminster/John Knox Press, 1991, pp. 94-120.

Edwins, Ken.  “Male Self-Hate and Grief:  A Post-Patriarchal Response.”  (unpubl.) [Sexuality--Male Issues--Patriarchy--Post-Patriarchy--Grief]

Fischer, Martin. “Theologische Männerforschung?: Zur Frage der Relevanz von Männerforschung in der Theologie.” Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik 50. Jg., (2006): 138-144.

Fletcher, Stephen E. “Let There Be Light.”  (unpubl.)  {response to Eldon Hay; Process and Faith monthly mailing]

Fletcher, Stephen E.  “Let There Be Light.”   [Sexuality]  

Griffin, David Ray.  “Ordination for Homosexuals?  Yes.”  Encounter 40, no.3 (Sum­mer 1979): 265-272.

Grosman, Leah.  “Aflame with God’s Life.”  [Sexuality--Life]  [Sermon on the Metropol­itan Community Church]

Grosman, Leah.  “Aflame with God’s Life.” (Sermon on the Metropol­itan Community Church ¾ a Process and Faith monthly mailing)

Hartshorne, Charles.  “Homo- and Heterosexuality.” In The Darkness and the Light.  Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1990, pp. 208-210.

Hay, Eldon.  “Worship Reflection.” (unpubl.)

        Hermanson, George.  “Ideology and Our Understanding of Homosexuality.”  (unpubl.)

Howell, Nancy R.  “Models of Human Relating.”  (unpubl.)

Hunt, Mary E. Review: Judith Plaskow, The Coming of Lilith: Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics, 1972-2003. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 74, no. 4 (December 2006): 998-1001.

Hutchins, Christina K. "Unconforming Becomings: The Significance of Whitehead's Novelty and Butler's Subversion for the Repetitions of Lesbian Identity and the Expansion of the Future." In Process and Difference: Between Cosmological and Poststructuralist Postmodernisms (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002), 111-145.

Keiller, Barbara.  “A Process Relational Visions of God Enhances Our Capacity for Intimacy with Each Other and with the Cosmos.”  Creative Transformation 1:1 (Summer 1991):  8-11.

Keady, Richard E. “The Implications of Whitehead’s Concept of God and Order for a Thomistic . . . Natural Law Ethic in Relation to the Problem of Birth Control.”  Ph.D. Dis., Claremont Graduate School, [???].

Kilsby, Mary Ellen, John B. Cobb, Jr., and Will Beardslee.  “What Shall the Church Say About Homosexuality?”  Process and Faith Booklet, 1992.

Lambert, Jean.  “Becoming Human:  A Contextual Approach to Decisions About Pregnancy and Abortion.”  In Feminism and Process Thought, ed., Sheila Greeve Davaney.  New York:  The Edwin Mellen Press, 1981, pp. 106-137.

Lee, Bernard J.  “Marriage In A Process Sacramentology.”  In Theology Confronts A Changing World, ed., Thomas McFadden (West Mystic, CT: Twenty-Third Publications, 1977): 206-227.  

Livezey, Lois Gehr.  “Human Rights and Sexual Ethics.” (unpubl.)

[???]    “Methodist Group Issues Rebuttal to Statement Dwelling on Sexual Sins.”  In Los Angeles Times.

Margulis, Lynn and Dorion Sagan. Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexuality. New York: Summit Books, 1991.

Nelson, James B.  The Intimate Connection.  Philadelphia:  The Westminster Press, 198[???]

_____.  “Men and Body Life.”  (unpubl.)

_____.  “Reuniting Sexuality and Spirituality.”  Christian Century 25, 1987):  187-190.

Ogden, Schubert.  “The Church and Homosexual Persons: The Issue of Ordina­tion.” Perkins Newsletter 13, 19:7 (1980): [???]

Parker, Rebecca.  “Making Love as a Means of Grace.”  World: The Journal of the Unitarian Universalist Association 8, no.4 (July-August 1994): 21-24.  

Pittenger, W. Norman.  Gay Lifestyles: A Christian Interpretation of Homosexuality and the Homosexual (Los Angeles: The Universal Fellowship Press, 1977).

_____.  “Human Beings as Lovers.”  In The Meaning of Being Human.  New York: The Pilgrim Press, 1982, pp. 60-74.

_____.  "The Homosexual Expression of Sexuality." In Making Sexuality Human.  Philadelphia:  Pilgrim Press, 1972, pp. 59-68.

_____.  “Human Sexuality.”  In The Lure of Divine Love.  New York:  The Pilgrim Press, 1979, pp. 63-73.

_____.  Love and Control in Sexuality.  Philadelphia:  United Church Press, 1974. [abstract]

_____. Making Sexuality Human. Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1970. [abstract]

_____.  Time for Consent:  A Christian’s Approach to Homosexuality.  London: SCM Press, 1976.

_____.  “Towards a Christian Theology of Sexuality.” Union Seminary Quar­terly Review 30 (1975):  121-129.

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

Religious News Service.  “Methodist Group Issue Rebuttal to Statement Dwelling on Sexual Sins.”  LA Times (April 4, 1992):  35.  [Drafted by J.B. Cobb]

Richardson,David.  “Confessions of a Left-Hander.”  Creative Transformation 1:4 (Summer 1992):  4,5,11.  

Shurman, Paul.  “Male Liberation.”  Pastoral Psychology 35:3 (Spring 1987): 189-199.

_____.  “Post-Patriarchal Male-Sexuality.”  (unpubl.)

Spencer, Daniel T. Gay and Gaia: Ethics, Ecology, and the Erotic. Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 1996. [abstract]

Spencer, Daniel T.  “Process Theology:  An Ethic of Liberating Life and Sustainability.”  Gay and Gaia:  Ethics, Ecology, and the Erotic.  Cleveland, OH:  The Pilgrim Press, 1996, pp. 200-244.

Suchocki, Marjorie.  “Thinking it Over on the Soapbox:  Red Herrings in the Churches.”  Creative Transformation 1:2 (Fall 1991): 1,3,4.  [homosexuality]

Swyhart, Barbara Ann DeMartino.  “Reshaping the ‘Religious’ Toward Bio­ethics and Abortion.”  In Bioethical Decision-Making.  Philadelphia:  Fortress Press, 1975, pp. 77-125.

United Church of Canada.  “Membership, Ministry and Human Sexuality,” 1988.

Washbourn, Penelope.  “Process Thought and a Theology of Sexuality.”  In God, Sex, and the Social Project, ed., James H. Grace.  New York:  The Edwin Mellen Press, 1978, pp. 21-37.

_____.  “Religion and Sexuality in Contemporary Perspective: or Listening between the Bedposts.” Iliff Review 35 (Spring 1978): 65-76.

Wieman, Henry Nelson.  “Morals of Sex.”  In The Source of Human Good.  Carbondale and Edwardsville:  Southern Illinois University Press, 1946, pp. 235-42.

Williams, Daniel Day.  “Love and Sexuality.”  In The Spirit and the Forms of Love.  New York:  Harper and Row, Publishers, 1968, pp. 214-242.

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

Wink, Walter, ed.  Homosexuality and Christian Faith: Questions of Conscience for the Churches.  Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1999. [abstract]