In Memoriam: Dr. David Ray Griffin (1939-2022)

How huge can a thoughts be?

If we’re fortunate, we have now threescore and ten years—in a really huge vast world, stuffed with historical past—to expertise as a lot as we are able to absorb.

Threescore-ten just isn’t practically sufficient, however some extraordinary individuals handle to embody and provides order to loads of it.

And a few much more extraordinary individuals handle to rise above their very own lives to interpret creation and the material of the universe as having constant which means throughout cultures and all through the ages.

David Ray Griffin was Professor of Philosophy of Faith and Theology, on the Claremont Faculty of Theology and Claremont Graduate College, from 1973-2004.  Together with his senior, Dr. John Cobb Jr., he co-founded the Middle for Course of Research in 1973.

Griffin has acknowledged that “the duty of a theologian is to take a look at the world from what we might think about the divine perspective, one that might care concerning the good of the entire and would love all of the components.”

Not solely was David an excellent theologian and one of many two best-known dwelling students of Alfred North Whitehead’s course of theology (the opposite being John Cobb):  His books additionally spanned the associated fields of postmodernism, theodicy (defence of God in opposition to evil), primordial fact, panentheism, scientific naturalism, parapsychology, Buddhist thought, and the mind-body interplay.

Concerning the time that he retired in 2004, he was approached by some individuals who admired his candor, and pointed to proof that the 9/11 occasion was extremely suspicious.

At first David thought that 9/11 was merely blowback from the way in which America had handled the Center East — however upon researching it extra deeply he realized that there was certainly a really severe probability that the US had contrived 9/11 as a false flag operation to fabricate consent to occupy Afghanistan and Iraq for his or her oil.

This injustice fired his power to analysis in depth, then write a dozen scholarly books on 9/11—books that weren’t acknowledged within the media however which engaged in a cat-and-mouse sport with the purveyors of the official 9/11 narrative, who frequently tailored their story to cowl up the weaknesses that David tracked and revealed as their tattered narrative advanced.

The primary and most well-known of those books was The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions concerning the Bush Administration and 9/11, printed by his much-appreciated Interlink press in March 2004.

That best-seller was adopted in 2005 by a devastating takedown of the Bush Administration’s whitewash Fee titled The 9/11 Fee Report: Omissions and Distortions, which uncovered 115 issues in “the 571-page lie”.

Following these early 9/11 works, David was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in each 2008 and 2009, and was named amongst “The 50 Individuals Who Matter At present” by the New Statesman, on September 24, 2009.

In November, 2008, David’s seventh ebook about 9/11, The New Pearl Harbour Revisited, was considered one of solely 51 books awarded as “choose of the week” that 12 months by Publishers Weekly.

What adopted was extraordinary.

Because the foremost ebook reviewing software within the English language, Publishers Weekly’s highlight ought to have led to opinions within the New York Occasions, the Occasions Literary Complement, Library Journal, and plenty of different high reviewing sources—however the phrase was out within the narrative-controlled media to present it a move.

In 2011, David and I based a corporation referred to as the 9/11 Consensus Panel, comprised of greater than 20 professionals knowledgeable in numerous facets of the 9/11 assaults. In 2018, the 51 consensus factors that had been developed throughout this distinctive evidence-based reviewing mission had been printed below the title 9/11 Unmasked: An Worldwide Assessment Panel Investigation (2018).

Throughout that seven-year mission, David addressed the existential disaster of local weather change, penning his encyclopaedic 2015 reference, Unprecedented: Can Civilization Survive the CO2 Disaster? (I took that ebook to the COP21 Paris local weather summit in 2015, and offered it there, following up with a YouTube documentary on that big gathering of humanity – the most important assembly since World Battle II.)

David then turned his consideration to US imperialism – writing Bush and Cheney: How They Ruined America and the World in 2016, and producing the unimaginable work of scholarship, The American Trajectory:  Divine or Demonic, in 2018.

David was finally ready, in 2019, to show to his long-planned The Christian Gospel for Individuals: A Systematic Theology.  It’s a magnum opus of huge breadth and depth.

In it, for instance, he confronts the science vs faith situation, exhibiting that some scientists—former atheists—have been overwhelmed by the extent of exceedingly exact ratios between the chemical components of earth which are required for all times, to now saying that the universe was “fine-tuned for all times,” thus reflecting a “fine-tuner” (or divine creator).

In 2022, as he approached the top of his life, and following an extended battle with prostate most cancers, David wrote the gorgeous and crowning reflections of his maturing theology, James and Whitehead on Life after Dying.

Within the spirit of James and Whitehead, he explains that the universe just isn’t separate from, however is inside God, and is itself the very nature of God. This evolving world view requires a brand new understanding of the divine actuality – panentheism, which means “all in God”.

The causal rules of the universe exist naturally, being inherent within the nature of issues, as a result of they exist within the very nature of God.

This chapter on the infinitely fine-tuned nature of the universe to assist life is a transporting reward.

However he was not executed but!

Forthcoming in March, 2023, from the writer Readability Press, is David’s America on the Brink: How the US Trajectory Led Fatefully to the Russia-Ukraine Battle – which was accomplished over the past days of his life.

In complete David Ray Griffin has written 50 books and greater than 200 essays. (He was as soon as requested if he had ever had an unpublished thought!)

In all of his books – and most notably these on American imperialism – he learn and cited latest scholarly investigations from high college presses, successfully overriding the propaganda that has handed down by a few years.

Paul Craig Roberts wrote: “David has served fact to the hilt. He’s a hero of our time.”

There is no such thing as a query that his physique of labor will go down in historical past as offering among the most elegant considering our century has witnessed.

And sooner or later, his chronicling of traditionally suppressed truths should emerge into full daylight, to permit reality-based civilization to advance.

Allow us to preserve his work alive, in order that earth’s future peoples will inherit the nice spectrum of knowledge he has left them:  from a hopeful common sense theology, to the exposés of imperialist propaganda and false flag operations, to the complete extent of the local weather disaster, to our evolving notion of the character of the divine, to the proof that our spirits will survive after demise.

David Griffin stands with the greats – but was quiet, humorous, all the way down to earth, and unassuming.

Seek the advice of David Griffin’s archive on World Analysis.

David Griffin has handed away. His Legacy Will Dwell

Dr. Griffin’s archive on 911Truth.Org