Religion before dogma : groundwork in practical theology / Douglas R. McGaughey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGaughey, Douglas R., 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theology, Practical.

Physical Description:

x, 262 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : T & T Clark, [2006]

Summary:

Presents a project that rejects the pragmatic solution to the sceptical dilemma created by deconstruction and postmodernism. This work argues that the Practical Theology shifts the focus away from what merely pragmatically works to the practical conditions that enable any and all knowledge and understanding.

Contents:

Introduction

Religion before dogma

Practical theology

Beyond mathematics, commodification, techné, 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 materialistic reductionism

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

Conclusion

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"

Spirit, truth, and power

Spirit and relationality

Spirit

On justice and wisdom

On truth

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 function 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 and the deviations of popular piety

Not "can" but "must" belief

On personal experience

On the limits to knowledge

What must we believe?

On the derivation of doctrinal beliefs

Conclusion : practical theology is relational theology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-257) and indexes.

ISBN:

0567025233

9780567025234

OCLC:

70839694