Realism in religion
Subtitle: a pragmatist's perspective
By: Robert Cummings Neville.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781438428253
Subjects: Religion; Realism; Pragmatism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Realism and truth; title: Theologies of identity and truth : legacies of barth and tillich; title: Barth and Tillich on theology : narrative and system; title: Legacies of narrative and system; title: Truth, identity, and authority; title: Truth in theology; title: Roots of the evasion of truth and their antidotes; title: Liberal theology as a near miss; title: Theology as symbolic engagement; title: Metaphysics for theology; title: Realism and contextualization; title: Postliberalism and theological inquiry; title: Religious symbols : engagement; title: Religious symbols : interpretation; title: All truth is contextual; title: The comparative context for religious truth; title: How to read scriptures for religious truth; title: Scriptures for engagement; title: Imaginative differences; title: Symbolic interpretation; title: Criteria for reading scriptures for truth; title: Systematic theology in a global public; title: System and its public : three values; title: Truth and realism; title: Minimizing arbitrariness; title: Vulnerability in a global public; title: Realism in pragmatism; title: A peircean theory of religious interpretation; title: Engagement and reference; title: Reference and apophatic theology; title: Meaning and truth; title: Interpretation; title: The contributions of Charles S. Peirce to philosophy of religion 1- The evolutionary weight of religion; title: Contributions to theology; title: Comparative theology; title: The importance of erudition; title: Intuition : a platonizing of pragmatism; title: Intuition and immediate unity; title: A theory of harmony; title: Judgment and interpretation; title: Intuition and Plato's divided line; title: Whitehead and pragmatism; title: The entangled legacies of pragmatism and process philosophy; title: Tensions regarding time and continuity; title: Eternity and time; title: Creation, eternity, time, and continuity; title: Philosophy of nature in american theology; title: Jonathan Edwards; title: Ralph Waldo Emerson; title: The pragmatists; title: Alfred North Whitehead; title: Realism in religion and metaphysics; title: Concepts of God in comparative theology; title: Conceptions of god in comparison; title: Theoretical issues in comparison; title: Observations about ultimacy; title: An hypothesis about the respect in which concepts of ultimacy interpret reality; title: Some contemporary theories of divine creation; title: Classifications of conceptions of God; title: Process theology; title: Ground-of-being theologies; title: Piety and conceptions of God; title: Descartes and Leibniz on the priority of nature versus will in God; title: Texts and arguments; title: Transcendence and immanence; title: Tillich and Hartshorne as Descartes and Leibniz; title: Experience and reason; title: The metaphysical sense in which life is eternal; title: Introduction : immortality and eternal life; title: Time and eternity : a metaphysical analysis; title: Eternity in the divine life of God; title: Eternity and time in human life.