Religion before dogma : groundwork in practical theology /
McGaughey, Douglas R.,1947-
New York ; London : T&T Clark,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-257) and indexes.
Practical theology -- Beyond mathematics, commodification, technical, and information -- Skepticism and its spectrum -- Conservative exploitation of vulgar skepticism -- Beyond pragmatic to practical theology -- Beyond negations to affirmations -- Why is practical theology relational theology? -- The problem with experience -- Mind and body -- On wholes and limits -- Identity -- Distinguishing between the subjective and the objective : on that which cannot be other than what it is -- Distinguishing the subjective from the objective : on that which can be other than the way it appears -- From skepticism to relational (i.e., critical) idealism -- Situations: emotions, appetites, and more -- The problem of materialism: necessity and the non-spatial -- Numbers and particulars -- Not by abstraction alone but by relational symbolic systems -- No metaphysical reductionism : constitutive and regulative ideas inseparable from a world of particulars -- On the "necessities" of practical theology -- Kant's "copernican revolution" -- Law and gospel: law after bultmann -- Spirit, truth, and power -- Spirit and relationality -- Spirit -- On justice and wisdom -- On truth -- The correspondence theory of truth -- Truth as clarity and distinctness -- Truth as manifestation -- Possibility and relational justice -- Power -- After critique: the human vocation -- The project of practical theology -- Analytic and synthetic judgments -- Determining and reflecting judgments -- On the logical functioning of the understanding -- Categories of the understanding -- On the interrelatedness of the sensible and the supersensible -- On aesthetic judgment -- On the hierarchy of the supersensible -- On humanity's moral vocation -- On the sublime -- A platonic kant -- Faith and history -- Self-respect and self-esteem -- On the "must" beliefs of practical theology -- Not "can" but "must" belief -- On personal experience -- On the limits to knowledge -- What must we believe? -- Inseparability from the world -- Perception is limited -- Action reminds us that there is more to experience than the empirical -- Relational symbolic systems -- Symbol and method -- Actuality and temporality -- Deontology -- Derivation of doctrinal belief systems.
Theology, Practical.