Loyola University New Orleans, January to May
2004: PHIL-A493-001:
SEMINAR:
A Seminar on Process Relational Philosophy
(click here
for unit outline)
And
Brisbane College of Theology (BCT Unit,
delivered 7th to 11th of February
2005, at St Paul�s Theological College, Banyo): INTENSIVE
Process Relational Philosophy and Theology
(click here for unit
outline)
It comes in two parts, Mainly Philosophy and
Mainly Theology, plus an appendix, putting material which I
already have as docs into html form.
This document is by way of a menu or index for
convenient access.
(A) Process Relational Philosophy (mainly)
Basic Introduction to Whiteheadian Process
Theory: following lectures from Charles Hartshorne and Jan
Van der Veken, Institute of Philosophy (HIW), University of
Leuven, 1978 = fulpro3r.html
This has the following headings:
PART
(A) Introductory: what Whitehead is about, his
conception of his task as a philosopher and how he proceeds.
(1) 'speculative
philosophy'/'metaphysics' vis a vis science and common
sense.
(2) the starting point:
PART
(B) WHITEHEAD'S SYSTEM IN
OUTLINE.
1.
a
metaphysics of concrescent events rather than of substances with properties.
2.
a
metaphysics of creative
becoming (equivalently:
"innovating becoming") rather than a metaphysics of being.
3.
a
philosophy of organism: of relatedness and inter-dependence rather than individualistic
independence
4.
a
philosophy which has Beauty as the ultimate value:
the whole universe as a process for attainment towards
beauty.
5.
a
philosophy with five so-called metaphysical ultimates:
creativity, actual entities prehending their predecessors
(i.e. actual entities, prehension), eternal objects and God.
PART
(C) FURTHER
EXPLANATIONS
I. Some
notes on 'Di-polar Theism'
II. Some
questions on the God question within process thought:
III.
Additional on Reality as a Social Process ["the problem of compound
individuals"]
IV.
Additional on Actual Entity and Prehension (cf. esp.
Leclerc.)
Plus the following articles or papers:
Whitehead and Plato: exploring some of the
philosophical influences producing the paradigm = whitplatr.html
Big Things from Small Things: exploring in
depth the production of a broad Process Relational Research
Program on an important issue of basic ontology = bgsml2k2.html
Process Thought and Human Existence = proche.html
And the following, which also belong in the next
section:
God and Evil in Process Perspective = proevilr.html
Process Relational Eco-Philosophy and
Eco-Theology = ecotheol2kr1.html and ecothohd.htm
(B) Process Relational Theology (mainly)
Process Relational Theology: An Outline = processsemprintable2k5.html
This has the following headings:
1. Definition and Historical Background
2.
Brief exposition of the Process-Relational
Metaphysical Vision (see above of course for much greater
detail!)
3.
�God� and �Evil� in Process-Relational Thought
4. Creation and
Original Sin
5. Process
Relational Trinitarian Theology
6. Christology, Church and Sacraments
7. Eschatology in
Process-Relational Perspective
8. Intersections
with Feminist and Liberation Theologies
9. Inter-religious
and inter-cultural dialogue (esp. Buddhism)
10. Process
Relational Ecological Theology
11. Facing up to some
of the problems
Plus the following, which also belong in the previous
section:
God and Evil in Process Perspective = proevilr.html
Process Relational Eco-Philosophy and
Eco-Theology = ecotheol2kr1.html and ecothohd.htm
And the following mainly theological notes and
papers:
Process and Trinity Notes: = trinity1.html
�A Renovated Process Theology, on the other side
of Dupre and Gauchet: towards a much deeper God� = neworleanslecturer.htm
This is a public lecture I gave at Loyola
New Orleans in May of 2004 as one of my duties as visiting
professor as a guest of Fr David Boileau. It fits in with the
other primary focus of research and concern I have had since
the 1990�s and joins the two interests together: see the
earlier part of this website.
Appendix:
�In Praise of Process Pluralism� = praiseprocess.html.
For both (A) and (B), see also Philosophy of
Religion Unit, available elsewhere in this website, as well as
the more recent article available earlier on the website on Process
Relational Philosophy and Theology as a Spirituality
of Creation and Life as Gift.
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