Existence
Subtitle: philosophical theology
By: Robert Cummings Neville
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9781438453316
Subjects: Theological anthropology; Philosophy and religion; Ontology
Description: Religion, writes Robert Cummings Neville, articulates existential predicaments and provides venues for ecstatic fulfillment. Like its companion volumes treating ultimacy and religion, this book advances a systematic philosophical theology to address first-order questions found in the array of Axial Age religions. Issues arising in the major religious traditions are explored through a complex array of philosophical approaches. This second volume shows religion to be the engagement of ultimate realities common to all human beings. Neville finds five problematics relative to ultimate boundary conditions of the human world : the contingency of existence, living under obligation, the quest for wholeness, engagement with others, and the meaning or value in life. Common to all human beings and hence "religion," the engagement with realities is also historically and culturally bound becoming simultaneously socially constructed "religions." Readers will find Neville's philosophical theology both bold and enlightening, running counter to dominant intellectual trends while richly informed by a long and fruitful engagement with theology, philosophy, and religion, East and West. --from back cover.
Notes: "Volume two."

Includes bibliographical references and index.