ABOUT

Andrew M. Davis is a philosopher, theologian and scholar of world religions. He is Program Director for the Center for Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology at Willamette University. A native of northern California, he was born and raised among the towering redwoods of Occidental and the meandering woodlands of Santa Rosa’s Bennett Valley. It was out these natural settings that his passion for the questions of philosophy, theology and religion first emerged. He holds B.A. in Philosophy and Theology, an M.A. in Interreligious Studies, and a Ph.D. in Religion and Process Philosophy from Claremont School of Theology. An educator and advocate of cross-cultural knowledge and religious literacy, his studies have led him to a variety of religious contexts and communities around the world, including India, Israel-Palestine, and Europe. He received the 2013 Award for Excellence in Biblical Studies, the 2017 fellowship with FASPE (Fellowship at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics), and the 2020 Presidential Award for Academic Excellence. He is a poet, aphorist and author or editor of four books including How I Found God in Everyone and Everywhere: An Anthology of Spiritual Memoirs (2018, with Philip Clayton); Propositions in the Making: Experiments in a Whiteheadian Laboratory (2019, with Roland Faber and Michael Halewood); Depths as Yet Unspoken: Whiteheadian Excursions in Mysticism, Multiplicity, and Divinity (2020, with Roland Faber); and Mind, Value, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy (forthcoming, Lexington, 2020)
EDUCATION
2015 - 2019
Claremont School of Theology
Ph.D. Religion & Process Studies
Metaphysics and Philosophical Theology
Process Philosophy & Theology
Philosophy of Religion
Nature of Religion, Evil & Religious Pluralism
Natural Theology
Science, Religion & Cosmology
Comparative Religion
West & East
2011-2013
Claremont School of Theology
M.A. Interreligious Studies
2007-2011
Point Loma Nazarene University
B.A. Philosophy/Theology
RESEARCH
Applied Spirituality
The Practice of Everyday Life


