'The Ocean of God' proposes that the future of religions will become transreligious. Its polyphilic pluralism, entertaining religious pluralism and the unity of religions mediated by process and Baha'i thought, assumes the spiritual impulse of humanity, despite secularizations, naturalizations and transhumanist dreams, to further a civilized future of peace.
Introduction; PART ONE: PARADIGMS OF UNITY AND PLURALITY; 1. Unity or Plurality of Religions?; 2. The Healing and Poisonous Fruits of the Unity of Religions; 3. The Synthesis and Aporia of Religious Pluralism; 4. The Promise of Mysticism; 5. Polyphilic Pluralism; PART TWO: NEGOTIATIONS OF MULTIPLICITY; 6. Convergences and Divergences: Juncture or Bifurcation?; 7. Pluralism of Pluralisms?; 8. Horizontal and Vertical Pluralism; 9. An Experiment in Incompatibilities: Green Acre; 10. The Mystery of Distinction and Unity; PART THREE: TRANSRELIGIOUS HORIZONS; 11. The Transreligious Discourse; 12. Other Religions: From Coinherence to Coinhabitation; 13. The Earth and Other Worlds: A Story of Cosmic Magnitude; 14. The Future of Religions; 15. One with All Religion; Glossary; References; Index.
Roland Faber is Kilsby Family/John B. Cobb Jr. Professor of Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology; and founder and executive director of the Whitehead Research Project. He is author of God as Poet of the World (2008); The Divine Manifold (2014); The Becoming of God (2017); The Garden of Reality (2018); and The Ocean of God (2019).
Andrew M. Davis holds a Phd in religion and process philosophy from Claremont School of Theology. He is author and editor (with Philip Clayton) of How I Found God in Everyone and Everywhere: An Anthology of Spiritual Memoirs (2018); and editor (with Roland Faber and Michael Halewood) of Propositions in the Making: Experiments in a Whiteheadian Laboratory (2019).