Hartshorne and Brightman on God, Process, and Persons: The Correspondence, 1922-1945

In 1922 Charles Hartshorne, then an aspiring young philosopher, wrote to Edgar Sheffield Brightman, a preeminent philosopher of religion and one of the earliest members of the Boston School of Personalism. For twenty-three subsequent years, the two carried out an unusually rich and intensive correspondence, and, remarkably, almost every letter was preserved. They are presented here along with additional material that follows the philosophers' lives and interactions after 1945, when Brightman's ill health prevented him from continuing the correspondence.

Mark Y. A. Davies is assistant professor and chair of the department of philosophy at Oklahoma City University. He has written widely on personalism and is review editor for Personalist Forum.

Randall E. Auxier is associate professor of philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is the editor of the journal Personalist Forum and is a frequent contributor to academic books and journals.