Andrew Davis: Introduction to Process Philosophy
and Whitehead's Understanding of God
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28 Videos

The videos below, featuring talks by Andrew Davis, are an excellent introduction to Whitehead's philosophy and his understanding of God.  Perfect for individuals and group study.  The videos come from lectures offered by Andrew Davis in the Process Summer Intensive 2021, sponsored by the Center for Process Studies.  See also the Whitehead video series, offered by Jay McDaniel, for a careful reading of selected texts in Whitehead's Process and Reality.

​1. What are Process Theologians Up To?
2. Dismissing Metaphysics: Reasons 1&2
3. Dismissing Metaphysics: Reasons 3,4 &5
4. Ancient Process Intuitions and Thematic Dichotomy
5. Modern Process Thinkers: Some Bold Points
6. The Philosophy of Organism
7. Experience All the Way Down
8. Whitehead's Metaphysical Soil: The Actual Entity
9. Rocks, Trees, Consciousness
10. Evolution, Novelty and Value
11. Possibilities as Inherently Value-Laden
12. Value and the Essence of the Universe
13. What are Eternal Objects?
14. Cosmic Epochs and Primordial Time
​15. The Ontological Principle and Possibility

16. God and the Limitation of the Possible
​​17. Dipolar God
18. The Primordial Nature of God
19. The Consequent Nature of God
20. Poetic Creation
21. The Idolatrous Entanglement of God and Caesar
22. Theistic Philosophy Vs. The Galilean Vision
23. A New Reformation: Plato, Jesus and the Immanence of God
24. Process Panentheism: Transcendence, Immanence, Creativity
25. Panentheism: Themes, Images, Attributes
26. Reasons for the Panentheistic Turn
27. The Religious Availability of Whitehead's God
28. Concluding Existential Transitions

​​1. What are Process Theologians Up To?

​4. Ancient Process Intuitions and Thematic Dichotomy

​7. Experience All the Way Down

​10. Evolution, Novelty and Value

​13. What are Eternal Objects?

​​16. God and the Limitation of the Possible

​19. The Consequent Nature of God

​22. Theistic Philosophy Vs. The Galilean Vision

​25. Panentheism: Themes, Images, Attributes

​2. Dismissing Metaphysics: 1&2

​5. Modern Process Thinkers: Some Bold Points

​8.  The Actual Entity

​11. Possibilities as Inherently Value-Laden

​14. Cosmic Epochs and Primordial Time

​​​17. Dipolar God

​20. Poetic Creation

​23.  Plato, Jesus and the Immanence of God

​26. Reasons for the Panentheistic Turn

​3. Dismissing Metaphysics: 3,4 & 5

​6. The Philosophy of Organism

​9. Rocks, Trees, Consciousness

​12. Value and the Essence of the Universe

​15. The Ontological Principle and Possibility

​18. The Primordial Nature of God

​21. The Entanglement of God and Caesar

​24. Process Panentheism: Transcendence, Immanence, Creativity

​27. The Religious Availability of Whitehead's God

​*  Andrew M. Davis is a philosopher, theologian, and scholar of world religions. He holds B.A. in Philosophy and Theology, an M.A. in Interreligious Studies, and a Ph.D. in Religion and Process Philosophy from Claremont School of Theology (CST). He is a poet, aphorist and author or editor of four books including How I Found God in Everyone and Everywhere: An Anthology of Spiritual Memoirs (2018, with Philip Clayton); Propositions in the Making: Experiments in a Whiteheadian Laboratory (2019, with Roland Faber and Michael Halewood); Depths as Yet Unspoken: Whiteheadian Excursions in Mysticism, Multiplicity, and Divinity (2020, with Roland Faber); and Mind, Value, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy (Lexington). For more about Andrew’s work and research interests, visit his website at andrewmdavis.info.