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Below you will find a small sample of resources that we think you'll find valuable as you consider the many possible ways that process thought might be relevant to your understanding of and journey in faith. If you have suggestions that you would like us to consider, please let us know.

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General Resources

Process Thought

A Perspective From Process Theology

by William Stegall
Creative Transformation (Autumn 1994)
Resource Type: Article

Christian Process Theology in France

by Roger Foehrle
Dieu pour nous -Théologie du Process
Resource Type: Website

God Beyond Orthodoxy: Process Theology for the 21st Century

by Philip Clayton
Originally presented at Claremont School of Theology on Sep. 9, 2008
Resource Type: Article

Process Philosophy

by J. R. Hustwit
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Resource Type: Article

Process Philosophy

by Johanna Seibt
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Resource Type: Article

by Don Viney
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Resource Type: Article

Process Theology

by John B. Cobb, Jr.
Process & Faith
Resource Type: Article

Process Theology: An Introductory Introduction

by John B. Cobb, Jr.
Presented at Claremont School of Theology, Sep. 14, 2004
Resource Type: Audio

Process Worldviews: Four Summary Statements

by Open Horizons
Open Horizons
Resource Type: Article

What is Process Theology? A Basic Introduction

by Marjorie Suchocki
Process & Faith, 2003
Resource Type: Article

What Is Process Thought?: Seven Answers to Seven Questions

by Jay McDaniel
Process Century Press, 2021
Resource Type: Book

Faith

Christian Faith and Process Philosophy

by Bernard M. Loomer
Journal of Religion, XXIX, 3 (July 1949)
Resource Type: Book Chapter

Dynamics of Faith

by Paul Tillich
Harper Brothers, New York
Resource Type: Book

Faith

by John Bishop
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Resource Type: Article

Faith in Buddhism

by The Spiritual Life
The Spiritual Life
Resource Type: Article

The Faith That Kills and the Faith That Quickens

by John B. Cobb, Jr.
Westminster Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1973, chapter 10
Resource Type: Book Chapter

Media

Path-focused Resources

Afro-Caribbean

Below you will find a small sample of bibliographical resources relevant to Afro-Caribbean and process approaches to faith. To view the full list visit the path resources page.

Monotheism and Metaphysics in the Yorùbá Thought System: A Process Alternative

by Emmanuel Ofuasia
Journal of Contemporary African Philosophy, 2020
Resource Type: Article

From Models of God to a Model of Gods: How Whiteheadian Metaphysics Facilitates Western Language Discussion of Divine Multiplicity

by Monica A. Coleman
Philosophia 35: 329-340, 2007
Resource Type: Article

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Bahá’í

Below you will find a small sample of bibliographical resources relevant to Bahá’í and process approaches to faith. To view the full list visit the path resources page.

The Garden of Reality: Transreligious Relativity in a World of Becoming

by Roland Faber
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018
Resource Type: Book

Process Philosophy and the Bahá’í Writings: An Initial Exploration

by Ian Kluge
'Irfán Collective, 2005
Resource Type: Article

Living Traditions and Universal Conviviality: Prospects and Challenges for Peace in Multireligious Communities

by Roland Faber and Santiago Slabodsky
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016
Resource Type: Book

The Manifestation of God in the View of Process Theology

by Roland Faber
'Irfán Collective, 2019
Resource Type: Article

The Ocean of God: On the Transreligious Future of Religions

by Roland Faber
New York: Anthem, 2019
Resource Type: Book

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Buddhist

Below you will find a small sample of bibliographical resources relevant to Buddhist and process approaches to faith. To view the full list visit the path resources page.

Comparing Whitehead and Chinese Thought

by Jay McDaniel
Open Horizons
Resource Type: Article

Whitehead and Zen Buddhism

by Jay McDaniel
Open Horizons
Resource Type: Article

Living Traditions and Universal Conviviality: Prospects and Challenges for Peace in Multireligious Communities

by Roland Faber and Santiago Slabodsky
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016
Resource Type: Book

Deep Religious Pluralism

by David Ray Griffin and John B. Cobb, Jr.
Westminster John Knox Press, 2005
Resource Type: Book

Dipolarity in Chan Buddhism and the Whiteheadian God

by Linyu Gu
Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 32(2), 2005
Resource Type: Article

Process Metaphysics and Hua-Yen Buddhism; A Critical Study of Cumulative Penetration Vs. Interpenetration

by Steve Odin
SUNY Press, 1983
Resource Type: Book

Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory: The Dharma of Natural Systems

by Joanna Macy
State University of New York Press, 1991
Resource Type: Book

God as Peace-Bestowing Buddha/Christ

by Steve Odin
Deep Religious Pluralism, Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, KY, 2005, 272 pgs.
Resource Type: Book Chapter

Faith in Buddhism

by The Spiritual Life
The Spiritual Life
Resource Type: Article

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Christian

Below you will find a small sample of bibliographical resources relevant to Christian and process approaches to faith. To view the full list visit the path resources page.

Christian Process Theology in France

by Roger Foehrle
Dieu pour nous -Théologie du Process
Resource Type: Website

ON EDGE: God-talk on the Cusp of Ecological Collapse

by David R. Weiss
Full Frontal Faith Blog, February 26, 2022
Resource Type: Article

Deep Religious Pluralism

by David Ray Griffin and John B. Cobb, Jr.
Westminster John Knox Press, 2005
Resource Type: Book

God as Poet of the World: Exploring Process Theologies

by Roland Faber
Louisville: WJK, 2008
Resource Type: Book

Handbook of Process Theology

by Jay McDaniel and Donna Bowman
Chalice Press, 2006
Resource Type: Book

Christian Faith and Process Philosophy

by Bernard M. Loomer
Journal of Religion, XXIX, 3 (July 1949)
Resource Type: Book Chapter

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Confucian

Below you will find a small sample of bibliographical resources relevant to Confucian and process approaches to faith. To view the full list visit the path resources page.

Deep Religious Pluralism

by David Ray Griffin and John B. Cobb, Jr.
Westminster John Knox Press, 2005
Resource Type: Book

Whitehead and China: Relevance and Relationships

by John B. Cobb, Jr., David Ray Griffin, Wenyu Xie, and Zhihe Wang
de Gruyter, 2005
Resource Type: Book

Alfred North Whitehead and Yi Yulgok: Toward a Process-Confucian Spirituality in Korea

by Chung Soon Lee
University Press of America, 2006
Resource Type: Book

Whitehead and the Book of Changes

by Shih-chuan Chen
Lecture delivered at the "First International Conference on Whitehead and China," Bejing, June 18, 2002
Resource Type: Article

Concerning Creativity: A Comparison of Chu Hsi, Whitehead, and Neville

by John H. Berthrong
State University of New York Press, 1998
Resource Type: Book

Comparing Whitehead and Chinese Thought

by Jay McDaniel
Open Horizons
Resource Type: Article

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Daoist

Below you will find a small sample of bibliographical resources relevant to Daoist and process approaches to faith. To view the full list visit the path resources page.

Whitehead and China: Relevance and Relationships

by John B. Cobb, Jr., David Ray Griffin, Wenyu Xie, and Zhihe Wang
de Gruyter, 2005
Resource Type: Book

Whitehead and the Book of Changes

by Shih-chuan Chen
Lecture delivered at the "First International Conference on Whitehead and China," Bejing, June 18, 2002
Resource Type: Article

Deep Religious Pluralism

by David Ray Griffin and John B. Cobb, Jr.
Westminster John Knox Press, 2005
Resource Type: Book

Living Traditions and Universal Conviviality: Prospects and Challenges for Peace in Multireligious Communities

by Roland Faber and Santiago Slabodsky
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016
Resource Type: Book

Concerning Creativity: A Comparison of Chu Hsi, Whitehead, and Neville

by John H. Berthrong
State University of New York Press, 1998
Resource Type: Book

Comparing Whitehead and Chinese Thought

by Jay McDaniel
Open Horizons
Resource Type: Article

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Hindu

Below you will find a small sample of bibliographical resources relevant to Hindu and process approaches to faith. To view the full list visit the path resources page.

Handbook of Process Theology

by Jay McDaniel and Donna Bowman
Chalice Press, 2006
Resource Type: Book

A Whiteheadian Vedanta: Outline of a Hindu Process Theology

by Jeffery Long
Process Theology: A Handbook (Chalice Press), 2006
Resource Type: Article

Deep Religious Pluralism

by David Ray Griffin and John B. Cobb, Jr.
Westminster John Knox Press, 2005
Resource Type: Book

Ultimate Complexity: A Hindu Process Theology

by Jeffery Long
Springer, 2013
Resource Type: Book Chapter

The Metaphysics of Becoming

by Thomas Padiyath
de Gruyter, 2014
Resource Type: Book

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Humanist

Below you will find a small sample of bibliographical resources relevant to Humanist and process approaches to faith. To view the full list visit the path resources page.

Towards a Process-Humanistic Interpretation of Islam: An Examination of Muhammad Iqbal’s God Concept

by Farhan Shah
Master's Thesis submitted in Religion and Society, Faculty of Theology University of Oslo, 2016.
Resource Type: Article

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Interfaith

Below you will find a small sample of bibliographical resources relevant to Interfaith and process approaches to faith. To view the full list visit the path resources page.

Depths As Yet Unspoken: Whiteheadian Excursions in Mysticism, Multiplicity, and Divinity

by Roland Faber and Andrew M. Davis
Pickwick Publications, 2020
Resource Type: Book

The Ocean of God: On the Transreligious Future of Religions

by Roland Faber
New York: Anthem, 2019
Resource Type: Book

Deep Religious Pluralism

by David Ray Griffin and John B. Cobb, Jr.
Westminster John Knox Press, 2005
Resource Type: Book

The Becoming of God: Process Theology, Philosophy, and Multireligious Engagement

by Roland Faber
Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017
Resource Type: Book

Plurality and Relativity: Whitehead, Jainism, and the Reconstruction of Religious Pluralism

by Jeffery Long
PhD Dissertation: University of Chicago, 2000
Resource Type: Article

The Garden of Reality: Transreligious Relativity in a World of Becoming

by Roland Faber
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018
Resource Type: Book

Handbook of Process Theology

by Jay McDaniel and Donna Bowman
Chalice Press, 2006
Resource Type: Book

The Cosmic Spirit: Awakenings at the Heart of All Religions, the Earth, and the Multiverse

by Roland Faber
Cascade Books, 2021
Resource Type: Book

God as Poet of the World: Exploring Process Theologies

by Roland Faber
Louisville: WJK, 2008
Resource Type: Book

Living Traditions and Universal Conviviality: Prospects and Challenges for Peace in Multireligious Communities

by Roland Faber and Santiago Slabodsky
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016
Resource Type: Book

ON EDGE: God-talk on the Cusp of Ecological Collapse

by David R. Weiss
Full Frontal Faith Blog, February 26, 2022
Resource Type: Article

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Jain

Below you will find a small sample of bibliographical resources relevant to Jain and process approaches to faith. To view the full list visit the path resources page.

Plurality and Relativity: Whitehead, Jainism, and the Reconstruction of Religious Pluralism

by Jeffery Long
PhD Dissertation: University of Chicago, 2000
Resource Type: Article

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Jewish

Below you will find a small sample of bibliographical resources relevant to Jewish and process approaches to faith. To view the full list visit the path resources page.

Judaism: A Personal Reflection

by Bradley Shavit Artson
Artson
Resource Type: Article

Thinking About Revelation

by Bradley Shavit Artson
Artson
Resource Type: Article

The Evolving God in Jewish Process Theology

by William E. Kaufman
Edwin Mellen Press, 1997
Resource Type: Book

Deep Religious Pluralism

by David Ray Griffin and John B. Cobb, Jr.
Westminster John Knox Press, 2005
Resource Type: Book

The Seas do Split: Dancing God’s Liberation

by Bradley Shavit Artson
Artson
Resource Type: Article

Mitzvot: Imperatives of a Loving Heart

by Bradley Shavit Artson
CJ: Voices of Conservative/Masorti Judaism, 2011
Resource Type: Article

Living Traditions and Universal Conviviality: Prospects and Challenges for Peace in Multireligious Communities

by Roland Faber and Santiago Slabodsky
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016
Resource Type: Book

God of Becoming and Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology

by Bradley Shavit Artson
Jewish Lights, July 26, 2016
Resource Type: Book

Handbook of Process Theology

by Jay McDaniel and Donna Bowman
Chalice Press, 2006
Resource Type: Book

Vibrating over the Face of the Deep: God’s Creating, and Ours

by Bradley Shavit Artson
CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly, 2010
Resource Type: Article

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

by Harold Kushner
Anchor Books, 2004
Resource Type: Book

Why We Need Process Theology

by Toba Spitzer
CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly, Winter 2012. Central Conference of American Rabbis. Used with permission from the author.
Resource Type: Article

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Muslim

Below you will find a small sample of bibliographical resources relevant to Muslim and process approaches to faith. To view the full list visit the path resources page.

Process Philosophy: A Bridge Between Islam and the West

by Louwrens W. Hessel
Chapter in The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy, Ankara: Philosophical Society of Turkey, 2006
Resource Type: Article

Muhammad Iqbal’s Process Concept of God

by Farhan Shah
Shah
Resource Type: Book Chapter

Stray Reflections: The Private Notebook of Muhammad Iqbal

by Muhammad Iqbal
Lahore: Iqbal Academy Pakistan, 2006
Resource Type: Book

Towards a Process-Humanistic Interpretation of Islam: An Examination of Muhammad Iqbal’s God Concept

by Farhan Shah
Master's Thesis submitted in Religion and Society, Faculty of Theology University of Oslo, 2016.
Resource Type: Article

Deep Religious Pluralism

by David Ray Griffin and John B. Cobb, Jr.
Westminster John Knox Press, 2005
Resource Type: Book

Living Traditions and Universal Conviviality: Prospects and Challenges for Peace in Multireligious Communities

by Roland Faber and Santiago Slabodsky
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016
Resource Type: Book

A Process Interpretation of Islam

by Farhan Shah
Open Horizons
Resource Type: Article

The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam

by Muhammad Iqbal
Stanford University Press, 2013
Resource Type: Book

Traces of Panentheism in Islam: Ibn al-‘Arabi and the Kaleidoscope of Being

by William Rory Dickson and Meena Sharify-Funk
Chapter in Panentheism Across the World's Traditions, Oxford University Press, 2013
Resource Type: Book Chapter

Letters and Writings of Iqbal

by Muhammad Iqbal
Lahore: Iqbal Academy Pakistan, 1981
Resource Type: Book

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Native American

Below you will find a small sample of bibliographical resources relevant to Native American and process approaches to faith. To view the full list visit the path resources page.

Process Thought and Indigenous Worldviews

by Chris Daniels
Daniels
Resource Type: Article

Why Should Indigenous Peoples “Seize an Alternative”?

by Chris Daniels
Daniels
Resource Type: Article

Defining “Indigenous” (for Discussion in Relation to Process Thought)

by Chris Daniels
Daniels
Resource Type: Article

Braiding Sweetgrass

by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Milkweed Editions, 2013
Resource Type: Book

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Pagan

Below you will find a small sample of bibliographical resources relevant to Pagan and process approaches to faith. To view the full list visit the path resources page.

Cosmos and Psyche, Intimations of a New World View

by Richard Tarnas
Plume Books, 2007
Resource Type: Book

Modes of Sentience: Psychedelics, Metaphysics, Panpsychism

by Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes
Psychedelic Press, 2021
Resource Type: Book

Hidden Circles in the Web: Feminist Wicca, Occult Knowledge, and Process Thought

by Constance Wise
Altamira Press, 2008
Resource Type: Book

Re-membering the Cosmological Self: Toward an Ecological-Postmodern Feminist Process Philosophy and Goddess Thealogy

by Lisa M. Christie
PhD Diss., California Institute of Integral Studies, 2012
Resource Type: Article

She Who Changes: Re-Imagining the Divine in the World

by Carol P. Christ
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
Resource Type: Book

Living Traditions and Universal Conviviality: Prospects and Challenges for Peace in Multireligious Communities

by Roland Faber and Santiago Slabodsky
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016
Resource Type: Book

Braiding Sweetgrass

by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Milkweed Editions, 2013
Resource Type: Book

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Shintō

Below you will find a small sample of bibliographical resources relevant to Shintō and process approaches to faith. To view the full list visit the path resources page.

Living Traditions and Universal Conviviality: Prospects and Challenges for Peace in Multireligious Communities

by Roland Faber and Santiago Slabodsky
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016
Resource Type: Book

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Sikh

Spiritually Independent

Unitarian Universalist

Zoroastrian

Creative Transformation

Creative Transformation was a magazine published by Process & Faith from 1991 to 2012. We're happy to be able to provide a digital archive to all 76 issues here!

2000-2012