God
Here is Wieman's minimalist definition of God.
Here is Dewey's concept of God.
The kiitsu kyokai meeting dated 2024-05-23 was greatly helpful in showing me where to look.
Does God need to be worshipped?
Is being worshipped connected with the concept of God.
Andrew on God
Per my personal communication with Andrew J. Brown dated 2025-04-22, he agrees with my observation that the Wieman's concept of God is that of a process. However, he expanded his thinking further by saying that the Wieman's concept of God as a process is similar to Baruch Spinoza's idea of natura naturans, which is "God-or-Nature/deus-sive-natura simply doing what nature (or God-or-Nature), in its totality, always does." Andrew adds that he feels certain that this process is also what Shin'ichirō Imaoka was referring to, using Bergsonian language, as "the great life of free and selfless creative evolution."
God is not a being, but a word for what can happen between people.
My idea of God
Past readings on God
- A common ground? A Unitarian and Universalist religious naturalist meditation on Darwin’s 207th birthday by Brown
- A mystery is something in which I am myself involved by Brown
- From sounding line to lamp wick — faith in the body of the universe by Brown
- Garden Congregationalism by Brown
- Harvest - Step out onto the planet by Brown
- If we are going to have faith that _______ to guide all our religious activities, what proposition should fill the blank? On an Evolutionary Religion by Brown
- Imagine a clearing into which the light pours by Brown
- Improve the campsite, teach children, oust tyrants by Brown
- John Dewey and Henry Nelson Wieman's ways of using the word "God" by Brown
- “Look, there! That’s what I mean by God!” — God as event by Brown
- Openness to the future grounded in the giftedness of life received as a gift by Brown
- The 'All' in All Souls and All Saints by Brown
- We are all manifestations of the Great Spirit, children of God, containing infinite treasures within ourselves . . . by Brown
Reading List
Begin by reading Spinoza
- Religious Experience and Scientific Method by Wieman
- Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason (1993) by Schellenberg
Dewey
Schellenberg
Caputo