Description: Brings Chinese Daoist and Confucian thought into conversation with Western process, pragmatic, and naturalist philosophy and theology.
Brief description: John H. Berthrong is Associate Professor of Comparative Theology at Boston University School of Theology. He is the author of several books, including Concerning Creativity: A Comparison of Chu Hsi, Whitehead, and Neville and All Under Heaven: Transforming Paradigms in Confucian-Christian Dialogue, both also published by SUNY Press.
Review Quotes:
"...Expanding Process is yet another excellent contribution from Berthrong to the fields of comparative philosophy and theology." -- Philosophy East & West
"...Expanding Process is an important contribution on the notion of process and a fine case study in comparative philosophy. It provides a great deal of useful information, especially that from the Chinese side. This will promote a further exploration of the universal concept of process and stimulate people to think more on the formation of global philosophy." -- Sophia
"...Berthrong continues his masterful, erudite exploration of shared themes arising in global philosophy, comparing mostly process philosophy with the ancient Chinese wisdom traditions, Confucianism and Taoism." -- Journal of Ecumenical Studies
"This is one of the best examples of comparative philosophy that I have seen in a very long time. It is an eminently readable exposition that puts Chinese philosophy into a global and contemporaneously relevant context, while also deftly drawing on the very best scholarship on the history of Chinese thought and American philosophy." -- Judith A. Berling, author of Understanding Other Religious Worlds: A Guide for Interreligious Education
"Berthrong aspires not just to compare but also to use each pole of the comparison to reconfigure and reconceptualize the other, which is a much more demanding enterprise." -- John B. Henderson, author of The Construction of Orthodoxy and Heresy: Neo-Confucian, Islamic, Jewish, and Early Christian Patterns