John B. Cobb Jr.

Using a process-relational approach, Cobb and Lull take a fresh theological look at Paul. Chalice Commentaries for Today are designed to help pastors, seminary students, and educated laity who are open to contemporary scholarship claim the Bible in their personal lives and in their engagement with the crucial issues of our time. The aim of the series is to offer a better understanding of the biblical challenges to the values, beliefs, and behavior in today's world as well as our own world's challenges to the values, beliefs, and behavior in the biblical world.

Increasingly world religious traditions present not just an intellectual or apologetic challenge to Christians but a daily encounter, a source of religious practices, and even live religious options. How are Christians to relate to these traditions and the neighbors and friends who live by them? This lively and engaging book is a great resource for faithful wrestling with the new realities in their historical and theological dimensions.

Economist Herman Daly and theologian John Cobb, Jr., demonstrate how conventional economics and a growth-oriented, industrial economy have led us to the brink of environmental disaster.

This edition includes a new afterword on money and finance, a revised, post-Cold War chapter on international security, and an updated Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare.

"An endlessly provocative tour-de-force." - New Options

Finally! What every reader of Whitehead has longed for, and students of Process and Reality have begged for: a glossary of all the most important process terms, written by the one of the greatest living authorities on Whitehead's thought. The definitions are simple enough for the first-time student, yet precise enough to satisfy even the most demanding scholars. The prose is lucid and insightful; it brings the original terms to life.

Against those who see us as being forced to choose God OR the world, Cobb affirms that we must choose God AND the world. Cobb's thesis is that when the affirmation of the world is cut off from faith in God, it ultimately undercuts itself, and that a devotion to the divine which turns its back upon the world is a rejection of the God known in Jesus Christ.

"In this important work, John Cobb provides an excellent example of what is desperately needed in the church, an appreciation and appropriation of Wesleyan theology in the context of contemporary needs and issues. John enters into critical dialogue with Wesley, permits us to listen in, and invites us to join and expand the dialogue. The result is a book which both summarizes Wesleyan theology and models a truly Wesleyan means of doing theology.

A carefully developed statement from the Mobilization for the Human Family.

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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).

A "Hard Issues" booklet from a process perspective.

Table of Contents

Two Reactions to the Bible

1. It All Has to Be True
2. One Book Among Many?

The Authority of the Bible
The Literal View
The Liberal View
An Old Testament Perspective on the Bible as the Word of God
A Process Point of View on the Bible

Questions for Discussion
For Further Reading


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This book challenges Christians to think. Committed lay Christians, says Cobb, are already theologians; he wants them to realize this and then to become good theologians.