Religion in late modernity / Robert Cummings Neville.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neville, Robert C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical theology.

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A well-known theologian and philosopher offers a late-modern perspective on religion, one opposed to the received truths of postmodern religious thought.

Contents:

Intro

Religion in Late Modernity

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. The Contingencies of Nature

Nature Defined

Cosmological Contingency: Determinateness and Time's Flow

Ontological Contingency: Creation and Eternity

Symbols of Ontological Asymmetry

2. Human Nature

Defining Human Nature

To Be under Obligation

The Human Condition

Orientation and Poise

3. Religious Symbols

Symbolic Meaning and Religion

The Reference of Religious Symbols

The Interpretation of Religious Symbols

The Truth of Religious Symbols

4. The Symbols of Divine Action

The Concept of God

What Can We Know about God?

When Can We Say God Is a Personal Agent?

When Should We Not Say God Is a Personal Agent?

5. Eternity and the Transformation of Soul

Eternity as a Contemporary Problem

Plotinus and Eternity

The Transformation of Soul to Engage Eternity

The Engagement of Eternity

Eternity Engaged through the Temporal

Eternity in Time: Real and Illusory

Eternity and Immortality

6. Religion and Scholarship

Recent History of the Study of Religions

Participation and Distance in a Typology of the Study of Religions

Models of Spirituality among Historically Conscious Scholars

7. Religion and Society

World Society, World Culture, World Community

The Causal Effectiveness of Religions

Global Modernization and Religious Traditions

Maitreyan Strategies

8. Religion and Politics: Spheres of Tolerance

Religious Wars and the Alleged Privacy of Religion

Obligation and Civil Religion

Ultimacy and Religions' Essential Features

Political Tolerance of Religions

Religion and Public Theology

9. Religion and the American Experiment

The American Religious Scene

The Experiment: An Hypothesis

What Makes Religions Religious

10. Religion and Vital Engagement.

Engagement and Competence

Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Oversoul

The Soul Transformed

Emerson, Nietzsche, and Jesus: A Challenge to Modernism

11. The Public Character of Theology and Religious Studies

12. Religions, Philosophies,and Philosophy of Religion

The Impact of Scholarship on Philosophy of Religion

A Definition of Philosophy of Religion

The Problematic of Translation and Comparison

Comparison, Philosophy, and Theology

13. A Paleopragmatic Philosophy of the History of Philosophy

Paleopragmatism

Signs: The Phenomenology, Comparison, and Lineages of Philosophies

Phenomenology of Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

Philosophical Influences

Philosophies as Referents: Structures, Insights, Orientation

Philosophic Conceptual Structures as Icons

Philosophies as Indices

Philosophies as Conventional Orientations of Life: Symbolic Reference

Philosophies as Interpretive Engagements:Truth, Usability, Fallibilism

Philosophies as True or False in Their Contexts

Historical Philosophies as Contemporary Resources

Historical Philosophies as Correctives

Notes

References

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-267) and index.

ISBN:

0-7914-8825-X

OCLC:

794701347