Creative Advance

"The many become one, and are increased by one." Inspired by the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, who saw creativity as the ultimate metaphysical principle luring the universe into novelty. The primary interest is identifying, analyzing and promoting the organic development of political and religious structures and our ways of thinking about them.

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Jesuit School Theologian Proposes "Civil Same-Sex Marriage: A Catholic Affirmation"

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Lisa Fullam , Th.D. (Harvard Divinity School), has been Associate Professor of Moral Theology at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkele...
Tuesday, August 05, 2014

You Must Remember This: A Kiss Is Just a Kiss, Unless It's the Kiss of Peace

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National Catholic Reporter Senior Analyst Rev. Thomas Reese, S.J., comments on the recent decision by the Vatican's Congregation for D...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Mary "Monster Monstrance" Posting from 2008 Gets Its Eighth Comment in Six Years

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This blog has been silent for the last three months, waiting to see if Pope Francis will actually deliver on his promising start as Bishop o...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

Why John Paul II Does Not Deserve Symbiotic Sainthood with John XXIII

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Religious and public media are abuzz with tomorrow's planned joint canonization of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II in Rome -- a fi...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Sr. Joan Chittister Lambasts "Religious Freedom" Pretext for Shunning Gays

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Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister writes a regular column for The National Catholic Reporter called "From Where I Stand."  In the...
Friday, December 06, 2013

With Francis, "The Message of Those in the Margin Has Been Heard in the Halls of Power"

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Jeff Dietrich , who has been a member of the Los Angeles Catholic Worker for over forty years, has published in the National Catholic Report...
Wednesday, December 04, 2013

If Pope Francis Puts People First, They Will Reform Deficient Doctrines

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In an important new article in the National Catholic Reporter, Hans Kung -- the theological nemesis of every pope since Vatican II -- sugge...
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Gerald T Floyd
New Orleans and Santa Fe, United States
Ph.D. in Philosophical Theology from Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, 1982. Major funding was provided by the Claretian Missionaries. My interest is in making sense of changes in political and religious structures and thought: changes in the past, changes emerging now, and changes needed in the future. I was inspired by the truly remarkable changes made to the Catholic Church by the 2nd Vatican Council in the 1960s--and saddened by efforts of church officials to reverse many of those changes in decades since. My doctoral dissertation, available for viewing at the web link below, was "THE CREATIVITY OF CHURCH TEACHING: A WHITHEADEAN ALTERNATIVE TO THE NOTION OF DEVELOPMENT OF DOCTRINE" (Copyright 1983). It argues that Whitehead's philosophy of creativity provides a coherent intellectual framework for explaining why the church and its teachings are "semper reformanda," always subject to change, based on the endless interplay of scripture, tradition and contemporary experience. The same also applies to political structures and thought, in a world where the worship of past achievement hinders future achievement and often places the creative advance at risk.
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