Joseph Bracken: Theology in an Event-Filled World

What a treat! Joseph A. Bracken, SJ, is back on the podcast! He is an emeritus professor of theology at Xavier University and one of my favorite philosophical theologians. I even wrote a chapter about him in my last book.

In the conversation we discuss…

• how he found the work of Whitehead in his journey as a Jesuit scholar
• the problems with Whitehead according to Bracken… Societies and the need for a stronger communitarian picture of life
• What is the problem of the One & Many and the process approach
• how does Bracken envision a Trinitarian God-World relationship
• Bracken’s reflection on Pope Francis and how it resonates with a Process-Relational framework
• the changing relationship between religion and science over church history
• the predicament of scientism
• how to think ethically about our planetary crisis
• Tripp discusses the 3 things he would add to the Christian canon
•  the need for a new worldview beyond the conflict of religion and science
• Bracken’s the Church as Dynamic Life-System
• how Bracken uses the Trinity to think through a for of deep religious pluralism
• Bracken’s new book – Reciprocal Causality in an Event-Filled World
• a Process vision of the Cosmic Christ
• Bracken’s Spirit Christology and field theory
• the problem of evil and suffering
• what Bracken has learned about the relationship between faith and doubt
• Tripp tells Joe how much he loves him.
• an amazing intro to God by Bracken – God: Three Who Are One

Previous Conversations with Bracken

• A Process Spirit Christology with Joseph Bracken

• Emergence, Panenthesim, Science & Process Theology

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