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Volume 22 (1993)
- Number 1, Spring 1993
- Kimball on Whitehead and Perception by David L. Hildebrand
- Ontological Hermeneutics: An Overlooked Bergsonian Perspective by Richard L. Brougham
- The Original Version Of Process And Reality, Part V. A Tentative Reconstruction by Denis Hurtubise
- The Riddle of Religion in the Making by Lewis S. Ford
- Whitehead’s Early Philosophy of Mathematics by Granville C. Henry and Robert J. Valenza
The author believes that Robert H. Kimball is mistaken in believing that Whitehead is trying to reconcile realism with mediatism.
The author examines the contributions of Henri Bergson’s theology and claims he is the "father" of process philosophy. Bergson may have uncovered an ontological structure at the heart of any viable process stance.
This article is concerned with that original version of Part V of Whitehead’s Process and Reality. The author proposes a reconstruction of Part V before the numerous modifications Whitehead made of it.
Whitehead’s Religion in the Making is straightforward except for chapter three. Dr. Ford wonders why Whitehead, at this point, drew back from his magnificent portrayal of God. This is the real riddle.
These authors, both mathematicians, are amazed that Whitehead saw a complete system of relationships in process thought but could not see this fuctionality in mathematics.
- Number 2, Summer 1993
- Number 3, Fall 1993
- A Buddhist Response to Paul Ingram by Stephanie Kaza
- The Choice and the Responsibility by Ervin László
- The Jeweled Net of Nature by Paul O. Ingram
Dr. Kaza applauds Dr. Paul O. Ingram’s enthusiasm for Buddhist-Christian dialogue on the critical topic concerning the terrible cumulative impacts on the planet’s air and water, landforms and ecosystems and their devastation as an outcome of human activity over the recent past.
Whatever we do either creates the framework for continuing the grand adventure of life and mind on this planet, or sets the stage for its termination.
The author’s thesis is this: dialogical encounter with Buddhist tradition -- in this case illustrated by the esoteric teachings of Kukai -- and Western ecological models of reality emerging in the natural sciences and Christian process theology, may energize an already evolving global vision.
- Number 4, Winter 1993
- Broadening Care, Discerning Worth: The Environmental Contributions of Minimalist Religious Naturalis by Jerome A. Stone
- David Pailin’s Theology of Divine Action by Darren J.N. Middleton
- Salvational Zionism and Religious Naturalism in the Thought of Mordecai M. Kaplan by Emanuel S. Goldsmith
- The Horizons of the Organic Vision of the Universe and Humanity: Vladimir Solovyev by Boris L. Gubman
- Toward a Process-Relational Christian Eschatology by David L. Wheeler
Dr. Stone calls us to face the worsening eco-crisis with new paradigms of thinking in all areas, in order to show the environmental relevance of a minimalist religious naturalism.
The author reports on David Pailin, Britain’s foremost exponent of process-relational thought. Pailin speaks of the divine agency as a general teleological purpose -- a drive or intentional cosmic urge within the processes of reality.
The major distinctive contributions of Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881-1983) to twentieth-century religious thought is his creative synthesis of modern Jewish nationalism with spiritual naturalism, religious humanism, and process theology.
Dr. Gubman sees Process Theology as one answer to the urgent problems of our century, proposing a synthetic fusion of scientific, philosophical. and theological approaches to the universe considered as a developing totality.
The author conjectures that biblical images and the process-relational concepts are richly mutually illuminating -- that in the eschaton, we find a quantum leap into a new kind of divine-human relatedness.