Process Thought, Violence, War, and Peace

Anderson, Gordon L. “Competing Views of Human Nature in the Politics of Peace: Integrating Ideas of Cobb, Galtung, Gewirth, and Tillich.”  Ph.D. Dissertation. Claremont Graduate School, 1986 [or 1985].

Baker-Fletcher, Karen. “Dust and Spirit.”  In Strike Terror No More; Theology, Ethics, and the New War (St. Louis, MS: Chalice Press, 2002). 280-286.

Berquist, Jon L. ed. Strike Terror No More; Theology, Ethics and the New War. St. Louis, MS: Chalice Press, 2002.

Brock, Rita Nakashima. “Power, Peace, and the Possibility of Survival.”  In God and Global Justice, eds. Frederick Ferre and Rita Mataragnon (New York: Paragon House, 1985), 17-35.

Bryson, Lyman, et al., eds. Approaches to World Peace: Fourth Symposium. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1944. (Comments by Charles Hartshorne, pp. 557, 597-8, 719-21.)

Brooten, Bernadette. “Violence Against Women in Rabbinic Literature.” (unpubl.)

   Bucher, Christina. “A Response to Bernadette Brooten’s Paper.”  (unpubl.)

Cobb, John B., Jr., "Christianity and Empire"  http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=3350

_____., Jr. “Economic Aspects of Social and Environmental Violence.” Buddhist-Christian Studies­ 22 (2002): 3-16.

_____. “Envisioning a Just and Peaceful World.”  Religious Education (Fall 1984)

_____. “Governance.”  In Postmodernism and Public Policy. Albany, NY: SUNY, 2002, pp. 141-142.

_____. “Hope on a Dying Planet.”  Bulletin of the Peace Studies Institute....(July 1977):

_____. “Pacifism or Just War Theory [?].”  In The Process Perspective: Frequently Asked Questions about Process Theology, ed., Jeanyne B. Slettom. St. Louis, MO: Chalice Press, 2003, pp. 125-130.       

_____. “A War Against Terrorism.”  In Jon L. Berquist, ed. Strike Terror No More; Theology, Ethics and the New War  (St. Louis, MS: Chalice Press, 2002).

_____. “Which New World Order?” Peace with Jusitce Center of the Pomona Valley Newsletter (May-June 1993): 1-2.

_____, and David R. Griffin. “Peace.”  In Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976), 124-27.

Cox, Gray. The Ways of Peace: A Philosophy of Peace as Action. New York: Paulist Press, 1986. [abstract]

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

Dombrowski, Daniel A. Christian Pacifism. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. [abstract]

_____. “Pacifism and Hartshorne’s Dipolar Theism.”  Encounter 48:4 (Autumn 1987): 337-50.

_____. Review of Hartshorne and Brightman on God, Process, and Persons: The Correspondence, 1922-1945. Eds. Randall Auxier and Mark Davies. In Process Studies 30, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2001): 166-68.

Eisenhauer, Dee. “Peace and Justice: An Exploration of Ecumenical and Process Thought and Interpretation in Preaching.”  D.Min Thesis, School of Theology at Claremont, 1985.

Falk, Richard. “Transition to Peace and Justice: The Challenge of Transcendence Without Utopia.” (Background paper for the Postmodern Conf.)

_____. “World Peace/Politics.”  (Audiocassette #10, Postmodern Conf.)

Ferre, Nels. “Patterns for Peace.”

Fortune, Aaron. “Violence as Self-Sacrifice: Creative Pacifism in a Violent World.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 18, no. 3 (2004): 184-192.

Garrison, Jim. The Darkness of God: Theology After Hiroshima. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1982. [abstract]

Gier, Nicholas F. The Virtue of Non-Violence: From Gautama to Gandhi. SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought, ed. David Ray Griffin. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2004. [abstract]

Griffin, David Ray. “A Naturalistic Trinity for the Nuclear Age.”

_____.  “Peace and the Postmodern Paradigm.”  In Spirituality and Society: Postmodern Visions. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988, pp. 143-154.

_____. “A Post-Hiroshima Image of the Future.”

_____.  “The Power of God and the Power of Imitation.”  (unpublished sermon)

_____. “Reconceiving God from the Heart of a Superpower.”

 _____. “Resurrection and Empire,” in The American Empire and the Commonwealth of God, by D Griffin, J Cobb, R Falk and C Keller (Westminster John Knox, 2006), 151-157.

_____. “Unilateral Move Needed to End Nuclear Arms Race.”  Los Angeles Times (November 19, 1983):

Hall, D. L. “Peace and Religion.”  In The Civilization of Experience: A Whiteheadian Theory of Culture. New York: Fordham University Press, 1973, pp. 136-156.

Hartshorne, Charles. “How Christians Should Think About Peace.”  University of Chicago Round Table (April 9, 1944): 20. (Hts Bib #91)

_____.  “Nuclear Arms.”  In Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984, pp. 131-33.

_____. “A Philosophy of Democratic Defense.” (#72/PS 6:1)

Henderson, Barbara D. “Breaking the Silence: Integrating Faith and Work in a Nuclear Weapons Reasearch and Development Laboratory-Related Community.”  D.Min. Thesis, McCormick Theological Seminary, 1993.

Horowitz, I. L. The Idea of War and Peace in Contemporary Philosophy. 1957, pp. 50-64. [abstract]

Ichii, Saburo. “Whitehead No Senso Heiwa Shiso”  (The Views of Whitehead on War and Peace)

Keller, Catherine. “The Armageddon of 9/11: A Counter Apocalyptic Meditation.”  Jon L. Berquist, ed. Strike Terror No More; Theology, Ethics and the New War  (St. Louis, MS: Chalice Press, 2002).

_____. God and Power. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2005.

_____. “Omnipotence and Preemption,” in The American Empire and the Commonwealth of God, by D.Griffin, J. Cobb, R. Falk and C. Keller (Westminster John Knox, 2006), 123-136.

_____. “Warriors, Women, and the Nuclear Complex: Toward a Postnuclear Postmodernity.”  In Sacred Interconnections, ed., David R. Griffin. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990, pp. 63-82.

Kinast, R. C. “Non-Violence in a Process World View.”  Philosophy Today (???) (Winter 1981): 279-285. [abstract]

Livezey, Lois Gehr. "Human Rights and Gender Violence: The Case of Domestic Violence." Process Studies33, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2004): 199-222.

Loomer, Bernard. “An Atomic Energy Proposal.” (unpubl.)

Macy, Joanna Rogers. “The Theoretical Foundations of Despair and Empowerment Work.”  From Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age (Background for Postmodern Conf.)

Marshall, Rick. “Violence is a Symptom of Deeper Cultural Loyalties.”  Creative Transformation 8:4 (Summer 1999): 10-11.

McDaniel, Jay. Gandhi’s Hope: Learning from Other Religions as a Path to Peace. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2005.

McFague, Sallie. Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987.

Moore, Mary Elizabeth Mullino. “Poppies and the Politics of Violence.” Creative Transformation 3, no. 4 (Summer 1994): 1-3.

_____. “Signs of Hospitality: Genesis 18:1-6.” Creative Transformation 10, no. 1 (Fall 2000): 7-9.

_____. “Imagine Peace: Knowing the Real - Imagining the Impossible.” Process Papers: An Occasional Publication of the Association for Process Philosophy of Education 8 (March 2004): 5-25.

Morita, Yuzaburo. “Human Rights and Peace from a Corner in Japan.”

Pedraja, Luis G. “In the Face of Evil; Understanding Evil in the Aftermath of Terror.”  In  Jon L. Berquist, ed. Strike Terror No More; Theology, Ethics and the New War  (St. Louis, MS: Chalice Press, 2002).

Poling, James Newton. The Abuse of Power; A Theological Problem. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1991.

_____. Balm for Gilead; Pastoral Care for African American Families Experiencing Abuse. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1998.

_____. Deliver Us From Evil; Resisting Racial and Gender Oppression. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1996.   

_____. Render Unto God: Economic Vulnerability, Family Violence, and Pastoral Theology.  St. Louis, MO: Chalice Press, 2002. [abstract]

_____. Understanding Male Violence; Pastoral Care Issues. St. Louis, MO: Chalice Press, 2003.  

Regan, Thomas J. “The Achievement of Peace.”  In “Whitehead’s Notion of World Consciousness.”  Ph.D. Dis., Fordham University, 1984,

Sarkar, Anil Kumar. Experience in Change and Prespect: Pathways from War to Peace. New Delhi: South Asian Publications, 1989.

Scarfe, Adam C. "On Religious Violence and Social Darwinism in the New Atheism: Toward a Critical Panselectionism." American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 31 no. 1 (January 2010): 53-70. [abstract]

Spretnak, Charlene. “Nonviolence.”  In Spirituality and Society: Postmodern Directions, ed., David Ray Griffin, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988, pp. 38-39.

Sturm, Douglas. “Interlude: Criminality and Community.”  In Solidarity and Suffering: Toward a Politics of Rationality. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998): 247-252.

_____. “Reformed Liberalism and the Principle of Nonviolence.”  Journal of Religion 71:4 (Oct. 1991): 479-497.

_____. “Violence, Nonviolence, and the Community of Life.”  Creative Transformation 12, no.1 (Winter 2003): 12-13, 28.

Suchocki, Marjorie. “Sin Through Violence.”  In The Fall to Violence: Original Sin in Relational Theology. New York: Continuum, 1994, pp. 82-99.

Valentine, Alonzo Martin, IV. “Love Seeking Justice: A Process Theology of Nonviolent Resistance.”  Ph.D. Dis., Emory University, 1989.

Welker, Michael. “The Self-Jeopardizing of Human Societies and Whitehead’s Conception of Peace.”  Soundings 70:3-4 (Fall-Winter 1987): 309-327.

Whitehead, A. N. “Peace.”  In Adventures of Ideas (New York:  The Free Press, 1967 [1933]), 284-96.

Whitney, Barry L. “Charles Hartshorne.”  In Nonviolence Central to Christian Spirituality, ed. Joseph T. Culliton (New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1982), 217-37.

Will, James E. A Christology of Peace. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1989.

The Women’s Movement for Justice and Peace. “The Cry of Zairian Women: We Want Peace!”  November 7, 1996.