Andrew Davis: Mind, Value, and Cosmos

Homebrewed Christianity

Dr. Tripp Fuller | Theologian, Philosopher, Minister

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.6 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 88 minutes

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My friend and process philosopher Dr. Andrew Davis is on the podcast! We have a bunch of nerdy fun. In the conversation we discuss... What does it mean that humans are a part of nature? What is entailed in an event of experience? Why do metaphysics? How are mind and value related? Why Whitehead thought God was necessary for an adequate metaphysics On the cosmological piety of Whitehead Problematizing the conceept of 'religion' from a process persepctive we mention this previous podcast episode with John Haught: the New Cosmic Story Here's Andrew's YouTube channel Andrew M. Davis is a philosopher, theologian and scholar of world religions. He is Program Director for the Center for Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology at Willamette University. A native of northern California, he was born and raised among the towering redwoods of Occidental and the meandering woodlands of Santa Rosa’s Bennett Valley. It was out these natural settings that his passion for the questions of philosophy, theology and religion first emerged. 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. An educator and advocate of cross-cultural knowledge and religious literacy, his studies have led him to a variety of religious contexts and communities around the world, including India, Israel-Palestine, and Europe. He received the 2013 Award for Excellence in Biblical Studies, the 2017 fellowship with FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics) and the 2020 Presidential Award for Academic Excellence. He was recently nominated and elected as a fellow for the International Society of Science and Religion (ISSR). He is a poet, aphorist and author or editor of several books including How I Found God in Everyone and Everywhere: An Anthology of Spiritual Memoirs (2018); Propositions in the Making: Experiments in a Whiteheadian Laboratory (2019); Depths as Yet Unspoken: Whiteheadian Excursions in Mysticism, Multiplicity, and Divinity (2020); Mind, Value, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy (2020); Nature In Process: Organic Proposals in Philosophy, Society and Religion (forthcoming, 2021); and Process Cosmology: New Integrations in Science and Philosophy (forthcoming, 2021). Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is up theology nerds? This is Tripp, and you're listening to Homebrewed Christianity.
0:12.5	Since the year of 2008, we've been bringing you interviews with some of the best scholars in the academy,
0:18.8	getting that wisdom right out of the ivory tower and into your
0:22.3	earbuds. And today, we're getting cosmological. That's right. My friend, process philosopher,
0:30.8	Dr. Andrew Davis, is on the podcast, and we are talking about his brand new book, Mind, Value, and Cosmos on the Relational Nature of Ultimacy.
0:42.8	Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
0:44.6	In the conversation, we end up talking about what it means for human beings to be a part of nature,
0:50.3	what's entailed in an event of experience, why someone would do metaphysics, how mind and value
0:56.2	are related, why Whitehead thought God was necessary, what is cosmological piety?
1:02.8	Why process people problematize the concept of religion?
1:06.8	And that's just a little bit of what we talk about.
1:09.3	It's a bunch of fun.
1:10.6	I hope you enjoy it.
1:12.4	And before we jump in to this episode, I want to tell you two, two quick things.
1:19.4	Number one, we are about to launch our brand new online class.
1:25.5	Yes, a pop-up learning community with two of my friends,
1:29.9	Brian McLaren and Diana Butler Bass.
1:33.4	All you have to do to join us is go to oh god what now.net.
1:40.0	There, you will be able to sign up.
1:44.5	It is six weeks. We will be able to sign up. It is six weeks.
1:46.3	We will be exploring what ways religion and Christianity has changed in the last 20 years.
1:54.2	As we get near the 20th anniversary of 9-11, we talk about the nature of religious decline in the West. We talk about the rise of authoritarianism,
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