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The God of metaphysics : being a study of the metaphysics and religious doctrines of Spinoza, Hegel, Kierkegaard, T.H. Green, Bernard Bosanquet, Josiah Royce, A.N. Whitehead, Charles Hartshorne, and concluding with a defence of pantheistic idealism / T.L.S. Sprigge.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sprigge, T. L. S. (Timothy Lauro Squire), 1932-2007, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- God.
- Metaphysics.
- Philosophers--Religion.
- Philosophers.
- First philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 576 pages)
- Other Title:
- Being a study of the metaphysics and religious doctrines of Spinoza, Hegel, Kierkegaard, T.H. Green, Bernard Bosanquet, Josiah Royce, A.N. Whitehead, Charles Hartshorne, and concluding with a defence of pantheistic idealism
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Can philosophy offer reasonable grounds for the existence of a God (or Absolute) possessing genuine (even if not orthodox) religious significance and not proposed simply as the solution to a purely intellectual philosophical problem? Certainly many contemporary thinkers have insisted that no genuine religion could be based upon metaphysics. In this book, however, T. L. S. Sprigge examines sympathetically the most notable metaphysical systems of the last four centuries which purportto put religion on a rational footing and, after a thorough examination of their claims, considers what kind of re
- Contents:
- The God of Spinoza
- Hegelian Christianity
- Kierkegaard and Hegelian Christianity
- T.H. Green and the Eternal Consciousness
- Bernard Bosanquet
- Josiah Royce
- Process Philosophy and Theology: Whitehead and Hartshorne
- Panthesitic Idealism.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [545]-562) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-954929-X
- 1-281-15399-0
- 9786611153991
- 0-19-153616-4
- 1-4356-2394-0
- OCLC:
- 191213706
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