Skip to content Books Astrophilosophy, Exotheology, and Cosmic Religion: Extraterrestrial Life in a Process Universe , Andrew M. Davis and Roland Faber, eds. (Lexington, 2024).The Mind of Whitehead: Adventure in Ideas (Pickwick, 2023).Divine Appearances: Transreligious Aspects of the Baha'i Discourse on the Manifestation of God (Kalimat Press, 2022).The Cosmic Spirit: Awakenings at the Heart of All Religions, the Earth, and the Multiverse (Cascade Books, 2021).Depths As Yet Unspoken: Whiteheadian Excursions in Mysticism, Multiplicity, and Divinity , by Roland Faber, edited by Andrew Davis (Pickwick Publications, 2020).Propositions in the Making: Experimentations in a Whiteheadian Laboratory , Roland Faber, Michael Halewood and Andrew Davis, eds. (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2020).The Ocean of God: On the Transreligious Future of Religions (New York: Anthem, 2019)The Garden of Reality: Transreligious Relativity in a World of Becoming (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018)Rethinking Whitehead's Symbolism: Thought, Language, Culture , Roland Faber, Jeffrey Bell, and Joseph Petek, eds. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017)The Becoming of God: Process Theology, Philosophy, and Multireligious Engagement (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017)Living Traditions and Universal Conviviality: Prospects and Challenges for Peace in Multireligious Communities , Roland Faber and Santiago Slabodsky, eds. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016)The Divine Manifold , Roland Faber, (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014)The Allure of Things: Process and Object in Contemporary Philosophy , Roland Faber and Andrew Goffey, eds., (Lanham, MD: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014)Beyond Superlatives: Regenerating Whitehead's Philosophy of Experience , Roland Faber, J. R. Hustwit, and Hollis Phelps, eds., (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014)Theopoetic Folds: Philosophizing Multifariousness , Roland Faber and Jeremy Fackenthal, eds., (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013)Butler on Whitehead: On the Occasion , Roland Faber, Michael Halewood, and Deena Lin, eds., (Lanham, MA: Lexington Books, 2012)Secrets of Becoming: Negotiating Whitehead, Deleuze, and Butler , Roland Faber and Andrea M. Stephenson, eds., (New York: Fordham University Press, 2011)Beyond Metaphysics?: Explorations in Alfred North Whitehead's Late Thought , Roland Faber, Brian Henning, Clinton Combs, eds., (Rodopi, 2010)Event and Decision: Ontology and Politics in Badiou, Deleuze, and Whitehead , Roland Faber, Henry Krips, and Daniel Pettus, eds., (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010)God as Poet of the World: Exploring Process Theologies (Louisville: WJK, 2008)Gott als Poet der Welt. Anliegen und Perspektiven der Prozesstheologie. 2nd corrected edition (Darmstadt: WBG, 2004)Prozeßtheologie. Zu ihrer Würdigung und kritischen Erneuerung (Mainz: Gruenewald, 2000)Der Selbsteinsatz Gottes. Grundlegung einer Theologie des Leidens und der Veränderlichkeit Gottes . Studien zur systematischen und spirituellen Theologie 16 (Würzburg: Echter,1995)Variationen über die Schöpfung der Welt , E. Schmetterer, R. Faber, and N. Mantler, eds., (Innsbruck: Tyrolia, 1995)Freiheit, Theologie und Lehramt. Trinitätstheologische Grundlegung und wissenschaftstheoretischer Ausblick (Innsbruck: Tyrolia, 1992)Editor Articles in Books “Does Religion Have a Future? Toward a Transreligious Theory of Religion.” In Hans-Walter Ruckenbauer/Susanne Moser, eds., Säkularismus, Postsäkularismus und die Zukunft der Religionen . Berlin: J.B. Metzler, 2022, 325-361. “Space, Time, and the Deity of Peace,” in Roland Faber, Michael Halewood, and Andrew Davis, eds., Propositions in the Making: Experimentations in a Whiteheadian Laboratory (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2020), 33-60. "Uniting Earth to the Blue of Heaven Above: Strange Attractors in Whitehead's Symbolism," in Roland Faber, Jeffrey Bell, and Joseph Petek, eds., Rethinking Whitehead's Symbolism: Thought, Language, Culture (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017). "Process, Progress, Excess: Whitehead and the Peace of Society ," Lukasz Lamz?a and Jakub Dziadkowiec, eds., Recent Advances in the Creation of a Process-Based Worldview: Human Life in Process (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016), 6-20. "Prozesstheologie als Theopoetik," in Klaus Viertbauer and Heinrich Schmidinger, eds., Glauben denken: Zur philosophischen Durchdringung der Gottrede im 21. Jahrhundert (Darmstadt: WBD, 2016). "Must 'religion' always remain as a synonym for 'hatred?' ": Whiteheadian Meditations on the Future of Togetherness," in Roland Faber and Santiago Slabodsky, eds., Living Traditions and Universal Conviviality: Prospects and Challenges for Peace in Multireligious Communities (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016), 167-82. "Multiplicity and Mysticism: Toward a New Mystagogy of Becoming, " in Nicholas Gaskill and A.J. Nocek, eds., The Lure of Whitehead (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014). "Touch: A Philosophic Meditation, " in Roland Faber and Andrew Goffey, eds., The Allure of Things (Lanham, MD: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), 47-67. "'The exactness is a fake': Whitehead and the Future of Education, " in Dennis Sölch, ed., Erziehung, Politik und Religion: Beiträge zu A. N. Whiteheads Kulturphilosophie (München: Karl Alber Verlag, 2014), 101-28. "Theopoetic Justice: Towards an Ecology of Living Together, " in Roland Faber, J. R. Hustwit, and Hollis Phelps, eds., Beyond Superlatives: Regenerating Whitehead's Philosophy of Experience (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014), 160-78. "Polyphilic Pluralism: Becoming Religious Multiplicities " (with Catherine Keller), in Chris Boesel and Wesley Ariarajah, eds., Divine Multiplicity: Trinities, Diversities, and the Nature of Relation (New York: Fordham University Press, 2014), 58-81 "Introduction to Process Theology, " in Jeanine Diller and Asa Kasher, eds., Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities (Dortrecht: Springer, 2013), 311-21. "Introduction: The Manifold of Theopoetics " (with Jeremy Fackenthal), in Roland Faber and Jeremy Fackenthal, eds., Theopoetic Folds: Philosophizing Multifariousness (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013), 1-11. "Becoming Intermezzo: Eco-Theopoetics after the Anthropic Principle ," in Roland Faber and Jeremy Fackenthal, eds., Theopoetic Folds: Philosophizing Multifariousness (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013), 212-35. "The Mystical Whitehead ," in Marc Pugliese and Gloria Schaab, eds., Seeking Common Ground: Evaluation and Critique of Joseph Bracken's Comprehensive Worldview (Marquette University Press, 2012), 213-234. "A Taste for Multiplicity: The Skillful Means of Religious Pluralism ," with Catherine Keller, in John Cobb, ed., Religions in the Making: Whitehead and the Wisdom Traditions of the World (Eugene OR: Cascade Books, 2012). "Khora and Violence: Revisiting Butler with Whitehead ," in Roland Faber, Michael Halewood, and Deena Lin, eds., Butler on Whitehead: On the Occasion (Lexington Books, 2012), 105-126. "A Tender Care that Nothing Be Lost"—Universal Salvation and Eternal Loss in Butler and Whitehead? ," in Roland Faber, Michael Halewood, and Deena Lin, eds., Butler on Whitehead: On the Occasion (Lexington Books, 2012), 239-248. "Introduction: Negotiating Becoming ," in Roland Faber and Andrea M. Stephenson, eds., Secrets of Becoming: Negotiating Whitehead, Deleuze, and Butler (New York: Fordham University Press, 2011), 1-49. "Surrationality and Chaosmos: For a More Deleuzian Whitehead (with a Butlerian Intervention) ," in Secrets of Becoming: Negotiating Whitehead, Deleuze, and Butler , Roland Faber and Andrea M. Stephenson, eds., (New York: Fordham University Press, 2011), 157-77. "Immanence and Incompleteness: Whitehead's Late Metaphysics ," in Roland Faber, Brian Henning, and Clinton Combs, eds., Beyond Metaphysics?: Explorations in Alfred North Whitehead's Late Thought (Rodopi, 2010), 91-107. "Cultural Symbolization of a Sustainable Future ," in Adrian Parr and Michael Zaretsky, eds., New Directions in Sustainable Design (London, Routledge, 2011), 242-255. "The Sense of Peace: A Para-doxology of Divine Multiplicity ," in C. Keller and L. Schneider, eds., Polydoxy: Theology of Multiplicity and Relation (London, Routledge, 2011), 36-56. "Tears of God —In the Rain with D.Z. Philips and J. Keller, Waiting for Wittgenstein and Whitehead," in R. Ramal, ed., Metaphysics, Analysis, and the Grammar of God (Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2010), 57-103. "A Prologue on the Improper Placing of Thought ," in R. Faber, H. Krips, and D. Pettus, eds., Event and Decision: Ontology and Politics in Badiou, Deleuze, and Whitehead (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), 1-14. "'Amid a Democracy of fellow Creatures'—Onto/Politics and the Problem of Slavery in Whitehead and Deleuze (with an Intervention of Badiou) ," in R. Faber, H. Krips, and D. Pettus, eds., Event and Decision: Ontology and Politics in Badiou, Deleuze, and Whitehead (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), 192-237. "'Indra's Ear' – God's Absence of Listening " in I. U. Dalferth, ed., The Presence and Absence of God: Religion in Philosophy and Theology , Vol. 42 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010), 161-186. "Bodies of the Void: Polyphilia and Theoplicity ," in Ch. Boesel and C. Keller, eds, Apophatic Bodies: Negative Theology, Incarnation, and Relationship (New York: Fordham, 2010), 200-223 "'O bitches of impossibility!' – Programmatic Dysfunction in the Chaosmos of Deleuze and Whitehead, " in K. Robinson, ed., Deleuze, Whitehead, Bergson: Rhizomatic Connections (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), 200-219 “Prozesstheologie ,” in C. Barwasser, R. Bioschki, G. Collet, R. Faber et alia, Theologien der Gegenwart. Eine Einführung (Darmstadt: WBG, 2006), 179-197 “Transkulturaltion. Dogmatische Überlegungen zum "Wesen des Christentums" im Fluss, ” in R. Klieber and M. Stowasser, eds., Inkulturation. Historische Beispiele und theologische Reflexionen zur Flexibilität und Widerständigkeit des Christlichen. Theologie 10 (Vienna: LIT, 2006), 160-187 “’O bitches of impossibility!’--Programmatic Dysfunction in the Chaosmos of Deleuze and Whitehead ,” in A. Cloots and K. A. Robinson, eds., Deleuze, Whitehead and the Transformation of Metaphysics (Brussels: Flemish Academy of Sciences, 2005), 117-128 “’Insistenz’ – Zum “Nicht-Sein“ Gottes bei Levinas, Deleuze und Whitehead ,” in Y. B. Raynova and S. Moser, eds., Das integrale und das gebrochene Gesetz. Zum 100. Geburtstag von Leo Gabriel. Philosophy, Phänomenologie und Hermeneutik der Werte 2 (Frankfurt a.M., 2005), 131-155 “God’s Advent/ure: The End of Evil and the Origin of Time ,” in J. Bracken, ed., World Without End: Christian Eschatology from Process Perspective (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005), 91-112 “’Lumen gentium’ – Theologische Meditation über das Licht der Welt,” in Jahrbuch der Erzdiözese Wien 2005: Gehen und Verkünden—Die Bibel und ich (Vienna, 2005), 81-83 “Whitehead at Infinite Speed: Deconstructing System as Event ,” in C. Helmer, M. Suchocki, and J. Quiring, eds., Schleiermacher and Whitehead: Open Systems in Dialogue (Berlin: DeGruiter, 2004), 39-72 “De-Ontologizing God: Levinas, Deleuze and Whitehead ,” in C. Keller and A. Daniels, eds., Process and Difference: Between Cosmological and Poststructuralist Postmodernism. University of New York Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought (New York: SUNY, 2002), 209-234 “’Gottesmeer’ – Versuch über die Ununterschiedenheit Gottes ,” in Th. Dienberg and M. Plattig, eds., "Leben in Fülle". Skizzen zur christlichen Spiritualität. Theologie der Spiritualität 5 (Münster, 2001), 64-95 “Trinity, Analogy and Coherence ,” in M. Suchocki and J. Bracken, eds., Trinity in Process: A Relational Theology of God (New York: Continuum, 1997), 147-171 “’Über Gott und die Welt ...’ Struktur analoger Gottesrede und prozeßtheologische Perspektive ,” in E. Schmetterer, R. Faber, and N. Mantler, eds., Variationen über die Schöpfung der Welt (Innsbruck, 1995) Articles in Journals “Whitehead’s God and the Bahá'í Concept of the Manifestation of God,” in Process Studies 49:2 (2020) 147-187. “The Manifestation of God in the View of Process Theology ,” in Lights of Irfan 20 (2019), 7-54. “Laozi, A Lost Prophet?: The Challenge of the Dao De Jing for the Bahá’í Universe of Discourse ,” in Lights of Irfan 19 (2018), 37-110. “Baha'u'llah and the Luminous Mind: Baha'i Gloss on a Buddhist Puzzle ,” in Lights of Irfan 18 (2017), 53-106. “My Faith in Baha’u’llah: A Declaration ,” in Baha'i Studies Review 20:1 (2014) (published 2017). “Three Hundred Years of Whitehead: Halfway ,” in Process Studies 41.1 (Spring/Summer 2012), 5-20. “Organic or Orgiastic Metaphysics? 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Walter Benjamins "mystische Geschichtsauffassung" ,” in zeittheologischer Perspektive,” in MThZ 54 (2003): 68-78 “Apocalypse in God: On the Power of God in Process Eschatology ,” in Process Studies 31/2 (2002): 64-96 “Der transreligiöse Diskurs. Zu einer Theologie transformativer Prozesse ,” in Polylog 9 (2002): 65-94 “Zeit. Tod. Neuheit. Gedächtnis - Eschatologie als Zeittheologie. Teil I: Zeit und Tod ,” in FZPhTh 49/1-2 (2002): 190-213 “Zeit. Tod. Neuheit. Gedächtnis - Eschatologie als Zeittheologie. Teil II: Neuheit und Gedächtnis ,” in FZPhTh 49/3 (2002): 113-327 “Personsein am Ort der Leere ,” in NZSTh 44 (2002): 189-198 “Introduction to Charles Hartshorne's Handwritten Notes on A. N. Whitehead's Harvard-Lectures 1925-26 ,” in Process Studies 30/2 (2001): 289-300 “Wahrheit und Maschine. Wider das transsylvanische Argument von der Gewalt im Diskurs der Erkenntnis ,” in Labyrinth. 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