Table of Contents

Being and Becoming: A Personal Preface / ix Chapter 1: A Process-Relational World: An Adventure That Matters / 3 Chapter 2: Imaginative Generalization: The Search for a Comprehensive Vision / 11 Chapter 3: Minds, Bodies, and Experience: Envisioning a Unified Self / 20 Chapter 4: Experience All the Way Down: Seeking an Imaginative Leap / 31 Chapter 5: Reality as Relational Process: Substance and Process / 42 Chapter 6: Reality as a Causal Web: A Constructive Postmodernism / 54 Chapter 7: Unilateral Power: Power, Value, and Reality / 65 Chapter 8: Relational Power: So What? 72 Chapter 9: Creativity, Freedom, and God: What Makes Freedom Possible? / 79 Chapter 10: Looking Ahead: The Future of Process-Relational Thought / 89 Appendix: Getting Technical: Whitehead's Language / 93 Notes / 111 Suggested Reading / 119 Index / 121

About the Author

C. Robert Mesle is a recognized authority on process thought and the author of the acclaimed Process Theology: A Basic Introduction (1993), the most widely read introduction to process theology. A professor and chair of the philosophy and religion department of Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa, he received his PhD from Northwestern University. He is a board member of the International Process Network and the China Project of the Center for Process Studies and serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Theology and Philosophy and Process Studies. He resides in Lamoni, Iowa.

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"At last we have a short book that introduces the major ideas of Alfred North Whitehead to the general reader clearly and accurately." -- John B. Cobb Jr.