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"Why Whitehead" is the title of a lecture delivered by John Cobb at the 2003 Whitehead International Film Festival in Claremont, CA. The question is why a film festival would be named after a 20th-century philosopher with no professional connection to film. In this lecture, Cobb provides compelling reasons for Whitehead's relevance--not just to film, but to the human community. (A P&F fresh approaches booklet, this booklet is available for $4 for P&F members. Price will be adjusted by the seller).

Mind and Emergence examines the case for emergence in contemporary science and philosophy. A variety of recent scientific results have challenged the reductively physicalist understanding of the natural world, suggesting instead that evolution produces a series of interdependent but irreducible levels of organization. If sustained, these data require revision not only with the philosophy of science but also to standard views of consciousness, culture, and religion.

The good news of Jesus Christ is for both sinners and the sinned-against. For the past two thousand years, Christian theologians have focused on the experience of sinners, but treated their victims inadequately. To counterbalance this perspective, a diverse group of Christian scholars consider sin "from the other side." To make sense of Christianity from this standpoint, they offer a more complex and comprehensive analysis of human participation in evil and its reconciliation than the simple formula of sin and repentance.

If Someone Were to Ask, 'Where Is God,' How Would You Respond? Joseph A. Bracken, S.J., uses this question as a springboard to introduce his own approach to the process-relational metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead, a distinguished mathematician, theoretical physicist, and a 1927 Gifford Lecturer. Bracken seeks a broader harmony between Whitehead's philosophy and basic Christian beliefs "to the advantage of both faith and reason."

A Jewish-Christian Vision of Healing and Wholeness. "For anyone in the progressive Jewish and Christian traditions seeking psychologically informed spiritual guidance along the way of health and growth, no better book could be found. There is true wisdom here, expressed clearly and convincingly. The real-life stories interwoven into the text are deeply moving. The book should be read by clergy and laypeople alike. And even those who have separated themselves from these traditions will profit greatly. Perhaps it will lead them to reappraise the traditions they have abandoned!"

A "Hard Issues" booklet from a process perspective. (revised 2001, 2008)

Table of Contents

Two Stories about Evil
    September 11 Terrorist Attacks
    Elie Wiesel on the Holocaust

"In a process relational world, to love God is to be swept up into God's own love for the world. It is to become a participant in God's great compassion. To develop spirituality in this relational world of ours is to develop a habit of attentiveness to the call of the Spirit, which will lead us ever more deeply into lives that are marked by the compassion of God. These nine essays form an integral whole, combining a careful analysis of relational dynamics with very practical suggestions for personal and communal ways of intensifying our spirituality.

Responding to the urgency of the environmental crisis, the churches have begun to speak out, adding to concerns for justice and peace the imperative to respect and protect the integrity of God's creation, of which we, too, are part. In Liberating Life prominent activists and academics from every part of the globe articulate the foundations for an ethic of life, all of life.