Authors

Chris Aanstoos received his PhD in psychology from Duquesne University. His publications are concerned with consciousness, ecopsychology, and the philosophical and methodological foundations of psychology. He was the editor of The Humanistic Psychologist, one of APA’s division journals, and served as president of the Division of Humanistic Psychology of the APA. Aanstoos is a Professor Emeritus of the University of West Georgia. Co-editor of Rethinking Consciousness: Extraordinary Challenges for Contemporary Science

Chet Bowers

is an American educator, author, lecturer and environmental activist. He has written more than 20 books that focus on the cultural, linguistic and technological roots of the current ecological crisis as well as the educational reforms necessary to promote greater ecological awareness. Author of Reforming Education in an Era of Ecological Crisis and Growing Digital Insecurity.

John Buchanan

earned his M.A. in humanistic psychology at West Georgia College and his PhD from Emory’s Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts. His focus in writings and conferences continues to be the intersection of process thought and transpersonal psychology. Co-editor of Rethinking Consciousness: Extraordinary Challenges for Contemporary Science
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Ignacio Castuera

has been active in liberation theology and process thought for many years. Ordained by the United Methodist Church, he has been a pastor, district superintendent, social service agency administrator, and theology lecturer. Co-editor of For Our Common Home.
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Philip Clayton

is Ingraham Professor at Claremont School of Theology. He received the PhD from Yale University and has held posts at Williams College and the California State University, as well as guest professorships at the University of Munich, the University of Cambridge, and Harvard. He is the author or editor of 22 books, most recently, Transforming Christian Theology: For Church and Society; Adventures in the Spirit: God, World, Divine Action; In Quest of Freedom; and The Predicament of Belief: Science, Philosophy, Faith. Co-author of Organic Marxism, co-editor of Socialism in Process, and co-author of What Is Ecological Civilization?
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John B. Cobb, Jr.

is an American theologian, philosopher, and environmentalist, and the preeminent scholar in process thought. The author of more than 50 books, he was the guiding force behind the 2015 “Seizing and Alternative” conference on the contribution of a Whiteheadian worldview to the issues of climate change. Author of Theological Reminiscences, and Whitehead Word Book, Salvation: Jesus’s Mission and Ours; co-editor of For Our Common Home, and Putting Philosophy to Work. and co-author of The Call of the Spirit.-

David E. Conner

received his M.Div and Th.D. From Iliff School of Theology. He studied process philosophy with John Cobb, David Griffin, Charles Milligan, and Harvey Potthoff, who was himself a student of Whitehead’s at Harvard. Conner has written several articles focusing on science and religion and on an empirical approach to process theology. He is co-pastor of the Wheat Ridge (Colorado) Congregation of the United Church of Christ. He is the co-editor of Conceiving an Alternative

John Culp

is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Azusa Pacific University, with special interest in philosophy of religion. Among his publications is the "Pantheism" entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Author of Rebuilding After Collapse.

Andrew Davis

is program director for the Center for Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology and author of Mind, Value, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy. He is co-editor of Nature in Process: Organic Proposals in Philosophy, Society, and Religion.
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Ronny Desmet

is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Free University of Brussels. Thanks to his background in both mathematical physics and philosophy, his research has thrown new light on the historical roots and philosophical importance of Whitehead’s alternative rendering of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. He has published widely on Whitehead’s philosophy of mathematics and physics, and is currently committed to adding a Whiteheadian voice to the freewill debate. Editor of Intuition in Mathematics and Physics: A Whiteheadian Approach.
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Rem B. Edwards

is Professor Emeritus of the University of Tennessee. The author of 21 books, his areas of specialization are philosophy of religion, American philosophy, medical ethics, and ethical theory, with a special focus on mental health care ethics, ethics and animals, and formal axiology. Author of An Axiological Process Ethics.

Bruce Epperly

is a professor, pastor, and author of over sixty books, including The Elephant is Running: Process and Open and Relational Theologies and Religious Pluralism, Process Theology: A Guide for the Perplexed, and Process Theology and Politics. Now "retired," he lives in Potomac, MD, where, in addition to teaching and writing, he is an active grandparent, walker, and contemplative activist. He is the author of Praying with Process Theology and co-author of The Call of the Spirit.
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Patricia Adams Farmer

is the author of Embracing a Beautiful God, two novels, and numerous essays inspired by process theology and philosophy. She is a retired clergy and educator. Co-editor of Replanting Ourselves in Beauty.

Marcus Ford

taught environmental humanities at Northern Arizona University for 20 years. He is the author of Beyond the Modern University and William James's Philosophy: A New Perspective. He is currently working to promote the establishment of more small, mission-driven educational institutions around the country and abroad. Co-editor of Educating for an Ecological Civilization.
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David Ray Griffin

is Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Theology, Emeritus, Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California, where he remains a co-director of the Center for Process Studies. He has published (as author or editor)40 books in theology, philosophy, philosophy of religion, the relation between science and religion, and social and political issues. Author of Panentheism and Scientific Naturalism, God Exists but Gawd Does Not, Protecting Our Common, Sacred Home: Pope Francis and Process Thought, Process Theology: On Postmodernism, Morality, Pluralism, Eschatology and Demonic Evil, The Christian Gospel for Americans, Reinhold Niebuhr & the Question of Global Democracy, and James and Whitehead on Life after Death.
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Justin Heinzekehr

is Director of Institutional Research and Assessment and Assistant Professor of Bible and Religion at Goshen College, Indiana. Co-author of Organic Marxism, co-editor of Socialism in Process.

Spyridon A. Koutroufinis

was born in Greece. He was awarded a doctorate in philosophy of science from the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 2009 he passed the post-doctoral habilitation examination at the Technical University (TU) Berlin where he is an associate professor (Privatdozent). Between 2012 and 2014 he was a visiting associate professor and research scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. He has specialized in biophilosophy, process- and classical metaphysics, and theory of complexity. He is the author and editor of five books. Co-editor of Unprecedented Evolution.
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Jeannine Love

is an assistant professor of Public Administration at Roosevelt University in Chicago. Her research analyzes the rhetorics of individualism and freedom in political theory and practice, paying particular attention to issues of economic justice. Co-author of Integrative Process.
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Jay McDaniel

is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, Hendrix College in Conway, A. He is the author of seven books, editor of the website Open Horizons.org, a board member of the Institute for the Postmodern Development of China, and a consultant to the Center for Process Studies. Co-editor of Replanting Ourselves in Beauty, and author of What Is Process Thought? Seven Answers to Seven Questions..

Timothy Murphy

is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion and Politics at Claremont School of Theology. He is the former Executive Director of Progressive Christians Uniting, a faith and social justice organization that is based in southern California. He has served in various congregational and ministry settings in Kentucky, Missouri, Washington, Texas, and California with the Disciples of Christ and United Church of Christ. Author of Counter-Imperial Churching for a Planetary Gospel. and Jesus Learns to Glow.

Paul Nancarrow

is an Episcopal priest retired from full-time parish ministry. His theological work has focused on process-relational interpretations of liturgy, and especially on the co-acting of divine action and human action in sacramental work and worship. He is a co-author of The Call of the Spirit.

René Pikarski

is completing his doctoral studies at the Munich School of Philosophy with a focus on international understanding. His PhD thesis is on the philosophies of Henri Bergson and Michel Foucault and their application to a biophilosophical concept of intuition for contemporary socio-critical discourses and ethopoetic processes. He works in Berlin as an author and host to support the preservation and rediscovery of the East German film heritage, and he is the editor of the Journal of the DEFA Foundation. Co-editor of Unprecedented Evolution.
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David P. Polk

is retired from a life of academia, publishing, and pastoral ministry but is still active as a constructive theologian deeply influenced by the orientation known as process-relational thought, rooted in the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. Author of God of Empowering Love

Russell Pregeant

is Professor of Religion and Philosophy and Chaplain, Emeritus, at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts and was frequently Visiting Professor in New Testament at Andover Newton Theological School. He is a long-time member of the Center for Process Studies, Process and Faith, and the Society of Biblical Literature. Previous publications are Christology Beyond Dogma: Matthew’s Christ in Process Hermeneutic, Reading the Bible for All the Wrong Reasons, and For the Healing of the Nation: A Biblical Vision. He is the author of Mystery without Magic: Finding Faith in a Secular World.

Stephen C. Rowe

is professor of philosophy at Grand Valley State University and actively engaged in intercultural dialogue and consultation on liberal education though several universities and institutions in China and the U.S. An award-winning teacher, his books include Rediscovering the West: An Inquiry into Nothingness and Relatedness and Overcoming America/America Overcoming: Can We Survive Modernity? Co-editor of Educating for an Ecological Civilization and author of Two Americas: Liberal Education and the Crisis of Democracy.

Wm. Andrew Schwartz

is a scholar, organizer, and nonprofit administrator. He is Executive Director of the Center for Process Studies, Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of EcoCiv, and Adjunct Professor of philosophy and theology at Claremont School of Theology. Andrew received his PhD in Philosophy of Religion and Theology at Claremont Graduate University, and was a principal organizer of the Seizing an Alternative conference, from which this book emerged. His recent work has been focused on high-impact philosophy and the role of big ideas in the transition toward ecological civilization. Co-editor of Putting Philosophy to Work, and co-author of What Is Ecological Civilization?

George W. Shields

received the PhD from the University of Chicago. He is currently serving in the Comparative Humanities PhD Program and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Louisville. He is also Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Environmental Studies and former University Distinguished Professor at Kentucky State University. He is co-author/editor of Process and Analysis: Whitehead, Hartshorne, and the Analytic Tradition and co-author/co-editor of Science, Technology, and Religious Ideas. He is co-author of The Mind of Charles Hartshorne.
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Margaret Stout

is an assistant professor of Public Administration at West Virginia University. Her research explores the role of public and nonprofit practitioners in achieving democratic social and economic justice with specific interests in administrative theory, public service leadership and ethics, and sustainable community development. Co-author of Integrative Process., and editor of The Future of Progressivism

Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki

is professor emerita at Claremont School of Theology, where she held the Ingraham Chair in Theology and also served six years of her tenure as academic dean. She has authored a number of books in process theology, including In God's Presence; A Process Theology of Prayer and The Fall to Violence.

Maria-Teresa Teixeira

is a researcher at Universidade de Coimbra. She has written two books on Whitehead and translated Whitehead’s Process and Reality into Portuguese. She is director-elect of the International Process Network and was the organizer of the 2017 International Whitehead Conference. She is a co-editor of Nature in Process: Organic Proposals in Philosophy, Society, and Religion.
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Michel Weber

is the Director of the Centre for Philosophical Practice (Brussels) and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Educational Foundations of the University of Saskatchewan. His current research focuses on political philosophy and the philosophy of psychiatry. Dr. Weber is the author of nine monographs, including Whitehead’s Pancreativism: The Basics (2006) and co-editor of twenty-seven books. Author of The Political Vindication of Radical Empiricism.

Donald Wayne Viney

holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Oklahoma. He has taught philosophy and religion at PSU since 1984. Viney is the author of Charles Hartshorne and the Existence of God (SUNY 1985) and is the senior editor of Hartshorne’s book Creative Experiencing: A Philosophy of Freedom (SUNY 2011). He is co-author of The Mind of Charles Hartshorne.

Demian Wheeler

is Assistant Professor of Philosophical Theology and Religious Studies at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. He received his Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary, where he specialized in American liberal theology. His research focuses on the Chicago School of American liberal theology and the streams of theological and philosophical thought that flow into and out of it: pragmatic historicism, religious naturalism, empirical theology, and process philosophy. He is the co-editor of Conceiving an Alternative.