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Volume 29 (2000)
- Number 1, Spring-Summer 2000
- Prehending God in and through the World by Joseph A. Bracken, S.J.
- Critiquing Codependence Theory and Reimaging Psychotherapy: A Process -- Relational Exploration by Mary Elizabeth Moore
- How Process Theology Can Affirm Creation Ex Nihilo by Rem B. Edwards
- Lewis S. Ford and Traditional Interpretations of Whitehead’s Metaphysics by Denis Hurtubise
- Prehending God in and through the World by Joseph A. Bracken, S.J.
- Process Psychotherapy by John B. Cobb, Jr.
- Process Relational Psychotherapy: Creatively Transforming Relationships by Robert Brizee
- The Clinical Use of Whitehead’s Anthropology by David E. Roy
- The Metaphysical Significance of Whitehead’s Creativity by André Cloots
- Trapped Within History?: A Process Philosophical Refutation Of Historicist Relativism by Nicholas Rescher
- Whitehead’s Category of Harmony: Analogous Meanings in Every Realm of Being and Culture by Paul G. Kuntz
- Whitehead’s Category of Nexus of Actual Entities by John W. Lango
The author’s goal is to make sense of the reality which is bigger than we are and of utmost importance for the health of our body and mind.
In a world of pain, the need to continue to function is found in the hope that process-relational psychotherapy can empower people to critique and transform their world.
The author shows how we can retain valuable process insights, such as that God is necessarily creative, social, loving, and embodied in some actual universe, and still affirm ex nihilo for our universe.
Dr. Hurtubise shows that Lewis Ford’s genetic approach to Whitehead’s metaphysics rests on some key points differing from the traditional interpretations.
The author’s goal is to make sense of the reality which is bigger than we are and of utmost importance for the health of our body and mind.
Dr. Cobb introduces a series of three articles on psychotherapy: Critiquing Codependence Theory and Reimaging Psychotherapy: A Process -- Relational Exploration by Mary Elizabeth Moore; The Clinical Use of Whitehead’s Anthropology by David E. Roy; Process Relational Psychotherapy: Creatively transforming relationships by Robert Brizee.
The author presents the disciplines of philosophy, theology, and psychology as he experiences counseling through the perspective of process thought.
The author discusses the following areas of psychotherapy and how process thought might apply in each: I. Psyche and Soma; II. Radical Novelty and Continuity Through Time; III. Confluence (Causal Efficacy) and Boundaries; IV. Presentational Immediacy and Separation; V. Internal Relations; VI. Metaphors, Grounded Possibilities and Projections; VII. Dissociation; VIII. The Self; IX. Parts Work and Contrasts; X. The Role of Consciousness; XI. The Structure of Perception and the Phases of the Self; and XII. Nature and Source of Healing.
Dr. Coots discusses creativity: 1. A different interpretation; 2. Differences and problems with Whitehead’s view; 3. What does creativity try to answer? 4. Ultimacy and creativity; 5. The relevance of Whitehead’s metaphysics of creativity in contemporary metaphysics.
Dr. Rescher refutes the idea that humans do everything within a setting of place and time, only viewing things from where they are, seeing things only from the particular perspective they happen to occupy. The idea that we can be cognitively trapped within history by a relativism that tethers us to our time and culture founders on fundamental considerations of process thought.
The author writes that Whitehead put forth a kind of correlation of simple harmony as faith in an order of things and in an order of nature.
Dr. Lango draws upon the logic of relations in an attempt to understand what nexus are.
- Number 2, Fall-Winter 2000
- A Response to Joseph Bracken’s "Prehending God in and through the World" by Paul Lewis Cecil
- Bitten to Death by Ducks: A Reply to Griffin by William Hasker
- Denis Hurtubise on Ford and the "Traditional" Interpretation by John B. Cobb, Jr.
- Disassembling the Mantra: Part/Whole Equivocation in the Category of the Ultimate by Duane Voskuil
- God and Creativity: A Revisionist Proposal within a Whiteheadian Context by Stephen T. Franklin
- On Hasker’s Defense of his Parity Claim by David Ray Griffin
- The Problem of Evil in Process Theism and Classical Free Will Theism by William Hasker
- The Process Paradigm, Rites of Passage, and Spiritual Quests by Nancy Frankenberry
- The Purpose of Human Rights by Franklin I. Gamwell
- Traditional Free Will Theodicy and Process Theodicy: Hasker’s Claim for Parity by David Ray Griffin
The author responds to Joseph Bracken as one who is moving the central debate away from the notion of God as a metaphysical necessity. Refer to Joseph Bracken, Prehending God in and Through the World.
It seems Process thinking remains outside the main current of thought. This is one in a series of five articles written in exchange between William Hasker and David Griffin. (See the Problem of Evil in Process Theism and Classical Free-Will Theism by William Hasker; Traditional Free Will Theodicy and Process Theodicy: Haskeer’s Claim For Parity; "Bitten to Death By Ducks": A Reply to Griffin; On Hasker’s Defense of His Parity Claim by David Ray Griffin.
Cobb’s main objection to Hurtubise’s formulation is that it seems to imply that Ford thinks that his textual analysis indicates that Whitehead himself did not affirm the efficacy of the Consequent Nature in the world. But Cobb says that Ford acknowledges that Whitehead’s statement affirms such efficacy. See Lewis S. Ford and Traditional Interpretations of Whitehead’s Metaphysics by Denis Hurtubise.
Is the creating process itself one whole with "the many" as its parts, or is the completed satisfaction of a process the whole? The author discusses this and other ambiguities along with many of the insights of Whitehead.
Dr. Franklin suggests a revised doctrine of creativity in an attempt to affirm God as the source of creativity thus cohering better with some of Whitehead’s later systems.
This is one in a series of four articles written in exchange between William Hasker and David Griffin. (See the The Problem of Evil in Process Theism and Classical Free-Will Theism by William Hasker; Traditional Free Will Theodicy and Process Theodicy: Hasker’s Claim for Parity by David Ray Griffin; "Bitten to Death by Ducks": A Reply to Griffin by William Hasker. Dr. Griffin thinks Hasker’s reaction illustrates that more people need to realize they are not limited to the choice between traditional theism and atheism.
Dr. Hasker writes that Process thought leaves God’s control over the events of the world so much less than classical theism. God provides the initial aim for each occasion, and that aim, we are assured, is for the best that is attainable in the given situation.
By providing a unifying concept that shows a common structure of a great number of spiritual quests, the process paradigm is presented and should illuminate and give coherence to the varieties of women’s and men’s experiences.
This writing details various theories of human rights: Do all human individuals have human rights? Should these rights be stipulated in a political constitution?
Dr. Griffin challenges Hasker’s parity claim between classical and process theism. (See The Problem of Evil in Process Theism and Classical Free Will Theism by William Hasker.