Vincent Colapietro

The Becoming of God

Theology

“It would be impossible to exaggerate how deeply the present is a time of intellectual renewal and innovation. This is nowhere more apparent than in matters pertaining to revising and interrogating conceptions of divinity. And this is nowhere more manifest than in the work of Roland Faber. He is at once deeply rooted in the process tradition and singularly innovative. The Becoming of God is a magisterial and breathtaking feat of theoretical imagination while being a work of impressive erudition and painstaking argumentation.”

The Cosmic Spirit

World Religions

“Imagine someone intimately conversant with classical theology and a wide range of world religions, deeply attuned to process thought, and of far greater significance critically responding to the powerful yet still inchoate tendencies and developments which define our historical moment. Roland Faber has relieved us of needing to imagine such a thinker. Nowhere is this more evident than in The Cosmic Spirit. To re-think the cosmos as chaos, when put forth as ‘a poetics of chaos,’ is not only an adventure of ideas. It is also what our moment so urgently demands. Faber has met this demand with a synoptic vision articulated in fine detail and with arresting eloquence. He shows how being a ‘poet’ faithful to the fragility of the earth and open to the irreducible heterogeneity of the ‘universe’ can provide us with a language to state more precisely than anything now available the nature of our conflicts and simply the questions resisting adequate articulation. Never has James’s ‘multiverse’ been more fully honored or the earth more persuasively centered as habitat and inheritance.”