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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Five Possible Global Metaphysical Systems for the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Cobb and Griffin�s Conception of Three Religious Ultimates | |
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| Whitehead and Multiple Ultimates | |
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| The Three Complementary Religious Ultimates | |
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| Enriching and Purifying the Depths | |
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| Summary | |
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| Four Additional Contenders for a Twenty-First-Century Global Metaphysical System | |
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| The Perennial Philosophy or the Traditionalist School | |
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| Emanationism | |
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| Classical Theism | |
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| Emergent Theism | |
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| Summary | |
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| Cosmosyntheism: A New Option | |
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| The Five Mutually Grounding Ultimates and Cosmosyntheism's Nine Advancements | |
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| The Nine Advancements | |
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| The Five Mutually Grounding or Presupposing Ultimates | |
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| Definitions of the Five Ultimates | |
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| How They Ground One Another | |
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| Reality: A Complex Adaptive System? | |
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| Cosmosyntheism and Creation | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Forms | |
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| Why the Forms? | |
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| Plato and the Theory of the Forms | |
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| Whitehead's Eternal Objects | |
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| Cosmosyntheism's Expanding Set of Forms | |
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| Why Not Just the Forms? | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Dipolar Deity | |
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| Why a God? | |
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| Whitehead's Dipolar Process Theism | |
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| Hartshorne and Griffin's Dipolar God as a Serially Ordered Society of Actual Occasions | |
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| The God of Cosmosyntheism | |
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| Summary | |
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| A World/Cosmos | |
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| Creation out of Chaos | |
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| Aristotle and Prime Matter | |
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| A World of Strings | |
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| Cosmosyntheism's Primordial World | |
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| Why Not Just a World/Cosmos? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Creativity/Eros | |
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| Why Creativity? | |
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| Creativity, What It Is and What It Isn't | |
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| Creativity/Eros in Cosmosyntheism | |
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| Why Not lust Creativity? | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Plane of Mutual Immanence | |
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| Why a Receptacle or Plane of Mutual Immanence? | |
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| Plato's Timaeus | |
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| The Receptacle in Whitehead's Adventures of Ideas | |
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| The Plane of Mutual Immanence in Cosmosyntheism | |
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| Why Not Just the Receptacle? | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Logical Inconsistencies of All Other Possible Combinations | |
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| The Problems | |
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| The Possible Combinations | |
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| Summary | |
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| Cosmosyntheism vs. the Five Rival Contenders: Assessing the Strengths and Weaknesses of each System | |
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| Free Will | |
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| The Free Will Problem | |
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| Free Will and the Perennial Philosophy | |
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| Free Will and Emanation Theories | |
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| Free Will and Classical Theism | |
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| Free Will and Emergent Theism | |
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| Cobb and Griffin on Free Will | |
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| Cosmosyntheism and Free Will | |
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| Summary | |
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| Conflicting Religious Truth Claims Part 1 | |
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| The Problem of Conflicting Religious Truth Claims | |
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| The Perennial Philosophy and Conflicting Religious Truth Claims | |
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| Emanation and the Problem of Conflicting Religious Truth Claims | |
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| Classical Theism and the Problem of Conflicting Religious Truth Claims | |
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| Emergent Theism and the Problem of Conflicting Religious Truth Claims | |
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| Cobb/Griffin and the Problem of Conflicting Religious Truth Claims | |
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| Summary | |
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| Conflicting Religious Truth Claims Part 2 | |
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| The Forms | |
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| Cosmosyntheism and the Forms in Other Religions God | |
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| Cosmosyntheism and Other Theisms A Cosmos | |
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| Cosmosyntheism and the Traditions that Focus on a Cosmos Creativity | |
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| Cosmosyntheism and the Religions that Focus on Creativity Receptacle | |
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| Sikhism and the Akashic Records | |
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| Cosmosyntheism and the Religions that Focus on the Receptacle | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Problem of Evil | |
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| The Problem | |
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| The Perennial Philosophy and the Problem of Evil | |
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| Emanation and the Problem of Evil | |
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| Classical Theism and the Problem of Evil | |
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| Emergent Theism and the Problem of Evil | |
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| Griffin on the Problem of Evil | |
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| Cosmosyntheism and the Problem of Evil | |
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| Summary | |
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| Implications and Applications of Cosmosyntheism | |
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| Ethics | |
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| The Cosmic Aim of Life | |
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| The Social Aim of Life | |
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| The Individual Aim of Life | |
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| Summary | |
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| Appendix: Cosmosyntheism and Applied or Practical Religion | |
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| Final Meditations | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Subject Index | |