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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: Faith & Feeling
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Now\nFor both Schleiermacher and Whitehead\, God is not “up there somewhere.” Rather\, God is most readily found by looking inward\, to where God is experienced. \n\n \n\nIn theological circles\, German philosopher Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834) may be best known for his text\, On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers\, his effort to defend religion from Enlightenment skeptics. He’s also been a subject of interest to process thinkers like Philip Clayton\, Thandeka\, and\, more recently\, Chad Bahl. In his doctoral research\, Chad has been putting Schleirmacher’s thoughts on faith and feeling into conversation with the work of Alfred North Whitehead. \nHe has found that “In both process thought and Schleiermacher’s philosophy\, the essence of existence is not lifeless matter or dogmatic precepts. Rather\, it is lived experience. In this lived experience\, we are interconnected both as human beings and in fellowship with the Divine.” \nSchleiermacher is known for talking about faith as a feeling of “absolute dependence.” Resonant with Whitehead’s thinking about God’s aims for every actual event\, Chad describes this as a “natural result of being in tune with our deepest intuitions. It arises from our recognition of the presence and purpose of God in our lives.” As we cultivate our awareness of God—through spiritual practices like contemplation—this feeling naturally arises as a kind of “God-consciousness” that is “developed as we experience community with others\, fellowship with the Divine\, interaction with nature\, the Gospel story\, and much more.” \nWhile each of us may experience the Divine differently\, it is this “personal perception\, (not reason\, dogma\, or scientific proof)\, which serves as the centering principle for faith.” According to Chad\, attuning to this interior faith and feeling is crucial to human life. “We become fully actualized human beings when we realize fellowship with the Divine in our experiences of both Creator and creation.” \n  \nAbout the Speaker\n  \nChad Bahl\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChad Bahl\, DThM candidate at Northwind Theological Seminary\, specializes in the study of Open and Relational Theology. Bahl is the author of God Unbound: An Evangelical Reconsiders Tradition in Search of Truth\, the author/editor of Deconstructing Hell: Open and Relational Responses to the Doctrine of Eternal Conscious Torment\, and\, most recently\, the author of Mornings with Schleiermacher: A Devotional Inspired by the Father of Modern Theology.  \n\n\n \n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat and receive the Zoom information\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/process-pop-up-faith-feeling/
CATEGORIES:Process Pop-up
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SUMMARY:Buddhist Process Explorations
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group About the Exploring\, Sharing\, and Practice of Buddhist Process-Relational Thought \n\n\n\nAt face value\, the Buddha’s Dharma and Whitehead’s Process Philosophy seem to characterize reality in very different ways\, and for different reasons. The Buddha taught that reality as we typically experience it is an impermanent\, selfless and dissatisfying process of cyclic becoming continuously powered by compulsive attachment and aversion grounded in delusion. The Buddha prescribed various methods we could deploy in order to go beyond this painful and immiserated condition\, methods which involve thorough analysis and deconstruction of our habituated and self-limiting assumptions about ourselves and the world as well as means of cultivating more purified states of awareness and embodiment so that we can awaken to the way things really are and unleash our core potential. \nWhitehead elaborated a systematic philosophical scheme\, replete with foundational metaphysical categories\, that reconstructs reality as a cumulative process of concrescence whereby many diverse feelings creatively synthesize into a novel experience\, aiming towards satisfaction and lured to completion through divine persuasion. For Whitehead\, many of the issues in philosophy and society at large could be traced to various fallacious conceptions concerning nature\, language\, and experience which he sought to rectify with his panexperiential\, process-relational Philosophy of Organism. \n  \nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/buddhist-process-explorations/2024-10-16/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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SUMMARY:Process & Presence
DESCRIPTION:An Exploration of the Intersection between Zen Buddhism and Process Philosophy \n\n\n\nLed by Reverend Reirin Gumbel (resident priest\, Milwaukee Zen Center) and Jay McDaniel (Chair\, Center for Process Studies)\, this conversation will explore the synergies between Zen Buddhism and Process Philosophy\, with a particular emphasis on Taoism as a foundational source for Zen.  \nGumbel and McDaniel will use China Root: Taoism\, Ch’an\, and Original Zen by David Hinton (Shambhala Publications\, 2020) as a springboard for discussion. Participants are encouraged to read selected short sections of the book in advance of each session to enrich the dialogue. \n  \nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/process-presence/2024-10-22/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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SUMMARY:Christian Process Explorations
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group About the Exploring\, Sharing\, and Practice of Christian Process-Relational Theology \n\n\n\nThis learning circle focuses on the exploring\, sharing\, and practice of Christian process-relational theology\, as relevant to all age groups: children\, teenagers\, adults\, senior citizens. We meet monthly to discuss process-relational ideas and practices in local settings like churches\, religious education\, hospitals\, and recovery groups. Together we explore how to share those ideas\, as well as how to embody their wisdom in daily life situations. This is co-sponsored by the P&F Christian Path Group. \n  \nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/christian-process-explorations/2024-10-28/
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