Reciprocal Causality in an Event-Filled World

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Reciprocal Causality in an Event-Filled World is written by Joseph A. Bracken, S.J. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 197870979X (ISBN 10) and 9781978709799 (ISBN 13).

Given the current sense of helplessness in dealing with environmental change and other urgent issues, a new world view is needed that emphasizes the unique contribution that individual citizens can make to the common good as opposed to their individual needs and desires. In a recent encyclical on the environment, Pope Francis set forth reasons from Scripture and Church teaching for this shift in perspective, but he did not provide a philosophically based foundation for this change of heart. To fill that gap, Joseph Bracken examines key writings of process-oriented philosophers like Henri Bergson and Alfred North Whitehead along with systems-oriented thinkers like Ludwig von Bertalanffy and Ervin Laszlo to create a systems-oriented understanding of the God-world relation.