Wednesday, March 19, 2025 we were joined by philosopher and process thinker Matthew David Segall for a Center for Christogenesis webinar.

This talk explores the evolving relationship between natural science and theology through the lens of process philosophy, arguing that both disciplines—often seen as conflicting ways of knowing and worldviews—can be reframed and integrated within a participatory understanding of the cosmos.

Drawing on Alfred North Whitehead’s organic realism, as well as kindred thinkers like Schelling and Teilhard de Chardin, the presentation will critique the bifurcation of nature that underlies the dominant scientific materialist paradigm and instead offer an onto-epistemology in which experience, creativity, and relationality are fundamental.

By engaging with contemporary developments in quantum physics, complexity science, and process/open and relational theology, this talk aims to demonstrate how a participatory cosmology can bridge the divide between scientific empiricism and mystical experience.