John B. Cobb
Author of Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition
About the Author
John B. Cobb, Jr. is Ingraham Professor of Theology Emeritus at the Claremont School of Theology.
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Series
Works by John B. Cobb
A Christian Natural Theology, Second Edition: Based on the Thought of Alfred North Whitehead (1966) 87 copies
Christian Faith and Religious Diversity: Mobilization for the Human Family (Facets (Fortress Press).) (2002) 45 copies
The Emptying God: A Buddhist-Jewish-Christian Conversation (Faith Meets Faith Series) (1990) 42 copies
The American Empire and the Commonwealth of God: A Political, Economic, Religious Statement (2006) — Author — 39 copies
Beyond Dialogue - Toward a Mutual Transformation of Christianity and Buddhism (1982) 38 copies, 2 reviews
Sustaining the Common Good: A Christian Perspective on the Global Economy (1994) 30 copies, 1 review
Transforming Christianity and the World: A Way Beyond Absolutism and Relativism (Faith Meets Faith Series) (1999) 26 copies
Existence and Actuality: Conversations With Charles Hartshorne (Chicago Original Paperback) (1984) 20 copies
Postmodernism and Public Policy: Reframing Religion, Culture, Education, Sexuality, Class, Race, Politics, and the… (2001) 12 copies, 1 review
Whitehead Word Book: A Glossary with Alphabetical Index to Technical Terms in Process and Reality (2008) 11 copies
For Our Common Home: Process-Relational Responses to Laudato Si' (Toward Ecological Civilization) (Volume 7) (2015) 5 copies
Reason & Reenchantment: The Philosophical, Religious, & Political Thought of David Ray Griffin (2013) 4 copies
China and Ecological Civilization: John B. Cobb, Jr. in conversation with Andre Vltchek (2019) 2 copies
Słownik pojęć Whiteheada : glosariusz i słownik polsko-angielski do książki Process and reality (2016) 1 copy
A Christian Natural Theology 1 copy
CHRIST IN A PLURALISTIC AGE 1 copy
A New Trio Arises in Europe 1 copy
Associated Works
Homosexuality and Christian Faith: Questions of Conscience for the Churches (1999) — Contributor — 232 copies, 1 review
Thy Nature and Thy Name is Love: Wesleyan and Process Theologies in Dialogue (2001) — Contributor — 23 copies
Shifting Boundaries: Contextual Approaches to the Structure of Theological Education (1991) — Contributor — 17 copies
Sacred Interconnections: Postmodern Spirituality, Political Economy, and Art (1990) — Contributor — 15 copies
The Routledge Companion to Modern Christian Thought (Routledge Religion Companions) (2013) — Contributor — 14 copies
Asian contextual theology for the third millennium : a theology of minjung in fourth-eye formation (2007) — Contributor — 6 copies
Philosophy and Theological Discourse (Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion) (1997) — Contributor — 3 copies
Christian Thought in the Twenty-First Century: Agenda for the Future (2012) — Contributor — 2 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1925-02-09
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- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Kobe, Japan
- Places of residence
- Claremont, California, USA
- Education
- Emory University
University of Michigan
University of Chicago (M.A.)
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The editor publishes this wonderful book which covers all the "topics" which society must face together: diverse religious creeds, the eternal left-right politics, public education, abortion, child care, human rights, homosexual rights, criminal justice, war on drugs, immigration, sweatshops, globalism, debt, environment, demographics, and what should The Protestant Church being doing and saying?
There is plenty of Scripture in this book. But it is not evangelical or seek to monopolize. It opens the gate. It opens the love, not the vitriol. The Preface notes that "For more than a century, from the anti-slavery campaign through the civil rights struggle, influential segments of the major Protestant churches in the United States were often leaders in progressive social action. Today, Protestantism appears to the public as a bastion of conservatism." And then asks, "What has happened?"
John Cobb shows how political operatives cynically took over the Protestant churches--as if they were the "weak link", and could be counted on not to really know their own Scripture, history, or legacy of love. Ralph Reed, a brilliant historian, could take on the task of bringing evangelical congregations into the fold of political conservatism, deluding churches with wedge issues like abortion. An assault on the text of the Scripture--which virtually never mentions abortion. And neither the Prophets nor Jesus ever treated a fetus as a "person".
Cobb writes to provide dialectical tools for engagement with the issues of the day. His organization was the network of the "Mobilization movement" which sought the common ground of all the churches around the issues. Sadly, the movement failed. Who could have predicted that after decades of Fox News broadcasting misinformation that the evangelical churches would forget almost everything Jesus said about helping the poor and being humble? Or that believers in a God who created the planet, would devote themselves to the Koch Industry funded GOP, which is now unrecognizable to any real Conservative.
The work concludes with a fact-based brief "History of the American Right". We saw this takeover of the church with our own eyes. The so-called evangelical church is now committed -- "subordinated" -- to the idolatry of money and bullying the vulnerable.
"The judgment of the Hebrew prophets against the unjust and the powerful, and Jesus' gospel of forgiveness and inclusive love, seems mostly subordinated in their [the Christian right] speech to the ungodly idols of rigid and narrow sexual morality, capitalistic individualism, and exclusive nationalism."
This is a great resource, it remains remarkably "current" despite the years. The only real updating it needs is that the facts and figures about the topics are now so much worse!… (more)