Curriculum Vitae 2008

Roland Faber

Professor of Process Theology, Claremont School of Theology
Professor of Religion and Philosophy, Claremont Graduate University
Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Vienna

MA (Vienna), PhD (Vienna), Habilitation (Vienna). My Fields of research and publication are Systematic Theology (Doctrine of God and Creation, Christology and Eschatology); Process Thought and Process Theology; Poststructuralism (Gilles Deleuze); Interreligious Discourse (epistemological conditions, ontology), especially regarding Christianity/Buddhism; Comparative Philosophy of Religion; Philosophy, Theology, Spirituality, and Cosmology of the Renaissance; Mysticism (Meister Eckhart, Nicolas of Cusa, Giordano Bruno). My interests led me to formulate a Theopoetics, a third space approach to post-structuralist and process theology, which by a critique of dualistic (or holistic) formulations of the relationship of Philosophy, Religion and Science, addresses the liberating necessity of multiplicity and diversity, combined with a post-colonial critique of theopolitical synergies of power.

2008

  • Organization of, and Lecture at, the 2nd International Conference of the Whitehead Research Project, Beyond Metaphysics? Transcontinental Explorations in Whitehead's Late Thought, co-organized with Brian Henning of the American Society of Process Philosophy at Claremont Graduate University (December 2008)
  • AAR Panel on my book: God as Poet of the World: Exploring Process Theologies (Westminster John Knox Press, 2008) (Chicago, November 2008)
    • Presider: Mayra Rivera, Pacific School of Religion
      Panelists: John D. Caputo, Syracuse University
      Catherine Keller, Drew University
      Laurel Schneider, Chicago Theological Seminary
      John Thatamanil, Vanderbilt University
      Carol Wayne White, Bucknell University:
      Respondent:  Roland Faber, Claremont School of Theology
  • Publication of my book God as Poet of the World: Exploring Process Theologies (Louisville: WJK, 2008)
  • Lecture at the Conference of The Society for the Study of Difference at its fourth annual panel session in conjunction with the annual conference of The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (Pittsburgh, October 2008)
    • Difference, Death, and Divinity: Towards a Poststructuralist Mystagogy of becoming
  • Lecture at the Conference NeuroSpirituality: Transforming the Embodied Mind (co-organized with Andrew Dreitcer and Philip Clayton with Center for Process Studies and Fetzer Institute at Claremont School of Theology, October 2008)
  • Class at Chicago Divinity School  (May-June 2008) with a graduate class on
    • Religion and Excess: Interrogating Whitehead with Bataille
  • Co-Organization of, and Opening Remarks at, the Conference Legacy & Lure of John Cobb (Claremont School of Theology, February 2008)
    • In Fearlessness of Revision—Whitehead on Religion and Society
  • Lecture at the 9th Philosophy of Religion Conference, Claremont, Claremont Graduate University (February 2009)
    • “Indra’s Ear”—God’s Absence of Listening
  • Member of the Whitehead Metaphysical Society (Poland)

2007

  • Organization of, and Lecture at, the 1st International Conference of the Whitehead Research Project Event & Decision: Ontology & Politics in Badiou, Deleuze and Whitehead (Claremont Graduate University, December 2007)
    • “Amid a Democracy of Fellow Creatures” — Onto/Politics and the Problem of Slavery in Whitehead and Deleuze
  • Lecture and Panelist on The Absence and Presence of God—Four Commentaries on Mother Theresa’s Dark Night of the Soul at Claremont Graduate University, October 2007)
    • Forgotten Among the Lillis: Mother Theresa’s Experience of Eternal Abandonment
  • CST Board/Faculty lecture on Theological Excellence (February 2007)
    • Un-Possessing God
  • Announce tenured Full Professor of Process Theology at the Claremont School of Theology (March 2008)
  • Lecture at Chicago Divinity School
    • On In/Finite Becoming: Philosophic Considerations on Whitehead’s Many Multiple Worlds

2006

  • Initiator and Executive Director of the Whitehead Research Project, Claremont
  • Co-Director of the Center for Process Studies, Claremont
  • Announced Faculty at the Department of Philosophy of the School of Humanities at the Claremont Graduate University
  • AAR Panel and Talk on John Caputo’s book The Weakness of God
  • Lecture at the Conference on “Cosmology & Process Philosophy in Dialogue: Fundamental Philosophical Issues in Recent Cosmology and their Religious Significance”, Claremont Graduate University
    • On In/Finite Becoming: Philosophic Considerations on Whitehead’s Many Multiple Worlds
  • Lecture at the Conference on “Apophatic Bodies”, Drew University, New Jersey:
    • Bodies of the Void: Polyphilia and Theoplicity
  • Section Director at the 2006 Whitehead Conference at Salzburg, Austria:
    • “Poststructuralism” (with Catherine Keller)
    • “Christian Theology” (with Helmut Maassen)
  • Lectures at the 6th International Whitehead Conference, Salzburg
    • Panentheism or Trans-Pantheism? The Process of Trans-Unification in Teilhard and Whitehead
    • Surrationality: A More Deleuzeian View of Whitehead
  • Lecture at the Process Conversations on “Theopoetics” with Catherine Keller
    • Theopoetics, Polyphilia, and Theoplicity
  • Lecture at Process Seminars of the Center for Process Studies at the Claremont School of Theology
    • Process Theology as Theopoetics
  • Lectures at the Research Colloquium of the School of Religion, Claremont Graduate University:
    • Whitehead and ‘First Philosophy’
    • Eternity—On D. Z. Philips’ Last Lecture

2005

  • Announced Professor of Process Theology at the Claremont School of Theology
  • Announced Professor of Religion at the Claremont Graduate University
  • Lecture at the Conference “The Experience of God” on Whitehead’s Religion in the Making in Saint-Jean Priorat, San Jodard, France
    • God in the Making. Religious Experience and Cosmology in Whitehead's Religion in the Making in Theological Perspective
  • Lecture at the Conference on Deleuze and Whitehead at the Flemish Academy of Sciences in Brussels:
    • “O bitches of impossibility!”--Programmatic Dysfunction in the Chaosmos of Deleuze and Whitehead
  • Lecture at the Claremont School of Theology:
    • In the Wake of False Unifications: Whitehead’s Resistance Against Imperialist Theologies

2004

  • Second edition of the book: Gott als Poet der Welt. Anliegen und Perspektiven der Prozesstheologie, Darmstadt (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft)
  • Lecture at the University of Vienna as part of the interdisciplinary lecture series on the “Culturation” of Christianity
    • Transkulturation. Dogmatische Überlegungen zum "Wesen des Christentums" im Fluss (University of Vienna)

2003

  • Book: Gott als Poet der Welt. Anliegen und Perspektiven der Prozesstheologie, Darmstadt (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft)
  • Lecture at the Whitehead-Schleiermacher Conference on “System an Life” of the Claremont School of Theology:
    • Whitehead at Infinite Speed: System as Event in Historical Perspective (ClaremontSchool of Theology, Los Angeles)

2002

  • Editing Whitehead’s Harvard Lectures 1925/1926 from the notes of Charles Hartshorne, published in Process Studies 30/2 (2002) 301-373

2001

  • Lecture for the Systematic Theology Group of the American Academy of Religion:
    • God’s Love without God? The Nondifference of God as Mystical Solution of Feuerbach’s Antinomy of Love (AmericanAcademy of Religion, Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado)
  • Co-Teaching a Class on Christian Eschatology in US/European Dialogue at the Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, with Prof. Joseph Bracken
  • Lecture at Drew University, New Jersey at the Drew Colloquium in Transdisciplinary Theological Studies 2001 on Interstitial Initiation/Counterdiscoursees of Creation
    • Creation as Differentiation: Toward a Third-Space Concept of Creation as “Self-Differentiating In/Difference” in Dialogue with Mystical and Process Theology (DrewUniversity, New Jersey)
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the European Studies in Process Thought (ESPT)

2000

  • Prize of excellence in theology of the Kardinal-Innitzer-Fonds, Austria, for the Habilitation on process theology
  • Vice-Chair of the Institute of Dogmatic Theology, University of Vienna
  • Lectures at the International Congress of the Chapman University, Orange County, on Relational Hermeneutics in a Fractured World:
    • Towards a Hermeneutics of the Unique (Chapman University, Orange County)
  • Seminar at the Center for Process Studies, Claremont:
    • "The Infinite Movement of Evanescence" - A Relativist Analysis of the Pythagorean Puzzle in Deleuze, Whitehead, and Plato (School of Theology, Claremont)

1999

  • Appointment “Extraordinary University Professor”
  • Lecture at the Griffith 2nd Congress of the Australasian Society of Process Thought at the College of Theology, Brisbane, Australia:
    • The Two Times Theorem. Structures of Quantum Indeterminacy and the Ecological Entanglement of Physics, Philosophy, and Theology
  • Lecture at the Memorial University, St. John's, Canada:
    • "The Infinite Movement of Evanescence" - A Relativist Analysis of the Pythagorean Puzzle in Deleuze, Whitehead, and Plato

1998

  • Post-doctoral degree of “Dozent” at the catholic theological faculty, University of Vienna
  • Roman venia legendi in Dogmatic Theology and the History of Christian Doctrine
  • Appointment as assistant professor at the Institut of Dogmatic Theology
  • Lectures at the25th Anniversary Conference of the Center for Process Studies in Claremont, Los Angeles:
    • De-Ontologizing God: Levinas, Deleuze, and Whitehead
    • On the Unique Origin of Revelation, Religious Intuition, and Theology

1997

  • Habilitation: Prozeß, Relativität und Transzendenz. Zur Kritik prozeßtheologischer Theoriegestalt (520 pp.)
  • Membership at the Center for Process Studies

1996

  • Membership of the American Academy of Religion
  • Erwin Schrödinger-international reaseatch fellowship (for 1 ½ years)
  • Research fellowship at Claremont (CST, CGU, CPS)

1995

  • Book: Der Selbsteinsatz Gottes. Zur Grundlegung einer Theologie des Leidens und der Veränderlichkeit Gottes, Würzburg
  • Erwin Schrödinger-international reaseatch fellowship (for 1 ½ years)
  • Stay at Claremont: research in the philosophy of Alfred North Whiteheads and of the  American process theology at the Center for Process Studies (School of Theology at Claremont/Claremont Graduate School)

1994

  • Working grant of the City of Vienna for composers

1993

  • Prize of the State of Lower Austria for composers
  • Membership at the International Franz Schubert Institute (IFSI)

1992

  • PhD in (systematic) theology
  • Dissertation: Der Selbst-Einsatz Gottes (620 pp)
  • Book: Freiheit, Theologie und Lehramt, Innsbruck
  • Prize of the State of Lower Austria for composers
  • Project "Zeit.Schnitte" Sound/text-installation in Vienna and Salzburg with the Austrian writer Christoph Janacs

1991

  • Grant of the Federal Republic of Austria for composers

1990

  • Prize of the Adolf Schaerf Fonds for composers
  • Prize of the State of Lower Austria for composers
  • Working grant of the City of Vienna for composers

1989

  • International prize for composition of the trio basso, Colon
  • Membership at the International Society for New Music (IGSM)

1988

  • Appointment to university assistant

1986

  • Membership of the Austrian Society of Philosophy of Religion

1985

  • Master in Theologie
  • Master thesis: Die Neue Zukunft Gottes (273 pp)
  • Appointment to scientific assistant at the University of Vienna

1981

  • Appointment as studying assistant at the University of Vienna

1979

  • Studies in Theology and Philosophy at the University of Vienna

1960

    • Born in Korneuburg, Austria