Arbitrary Marks

In Deep Religious Pluralism, David Ray Griffin discusses how John Cobb, Jr.’s bringing Christianity and Buddhism into dialogue is based in Whiteheadian philosophy. Cobb himself talks about this in an epilogue to Beyond Dialogue, his 1982 exposition of how the two religions could be understood as complementary.
My thesis won’t be responding directly to Cobb, [...]

My thesis, although I don’t think it has been done before, is hardly groundbreaking stuff. The compare/contrast of Buddhism and Process is not new. Charles Hartshorne himself write a paper outlining where the two diverge in a 1975 paper appearing in Philosophy East and West. The 1975 introduction to Process Theology written [...]

Originally posted on December 18, 2005.
About a year or two ago, I began reading a book by John B. Cobb, JR. and David Ray Griffin: Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition. Actually, I know exactly when I attempted to read it, since I have been one of only four people in my UU church to check [...]

I promised this earlier, but never got around to it. Here’s an abstract of my paper.
Naturally, this argument is subject to some revision as I continue to do some reading. However, this is my broad approach.
Abstract
David Ray Griffin, a proponent of Process Philosophy has recently undertaken the problem of religious pluralism in a [...]