Baha'i Writings and the Process of Philosophy
First presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #46
Bosch Bahá'í School: California, USA
May 1–4, 2003
(see list of papers from #46)
published in Lights of Irfan, volume 5, pages 109-162
under new title"Process Philosophy and the Bahá'í Writings: An Initial Exploration" © 2004, ‘Irfán Colloquia
According to the Bahá'í Writings, all parts of creation are in
a perpetual state of flux, actualizing their potentials, growing or decaying,
advancing or retreating. History, both biological and human-cultural, is an evolutionary
process that culminates in super-natural or spiritual developments in humankind.
Given such foundations, this paper provides an introductory examination of the
Bahá'í Writings in relationship to modern process philosophy as
seen, for example, in the work of such thinkers as Whitehead, Hartshorne, Cobb
and de Chardin, and examines some of the issues related to the formulation a unique
Bahá'í version of process thought. Other issues to be examined include
the nature and role of God and the Manifestation, emergent evolution, being and
becoming, substance, essence, form, potential, causality and organicism.
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