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American philosophers read scripture / Edited by Jacob L. Goodson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible--Philosophy.
- Bible.
- Philosophy.
- Philosophy, American.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 242 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2020]
- Contents:
- "Immortal Eve?" Genesis 1-3 in Margaret Fuller's Woman in The Nineteenth Century / Ann W. Duncan, Jacob L. Goodson - "In Demonstration of the Spirit" : Henry Bugbee's meditations on the Book of Job / Edward F. Mooney - "Fire Enfolding Itself" : Jonathan Edwards and Merkabah / William J. Danaher, Jr. - Gathering the wild fruits of scripture : Henry David Thoreau's philosophical interpretations of scripture / William Young - The black prophetic tradition : Cornel West, Abraham Heschel, and the biblical prophets / Lawrence Ware - "Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruits" : Ralph Waldo Emerson's interpretation of Jesus' logical rule / Jacob L. Goodson - Let the philosophers bury their own dead : Matthew 8 and Luke 9 in John Dewey's philosophy / John R. Shook - The impossibility of complacency : scripture in the life and work of Jane Adams / Ann W. Duncan - Secrecy and suffering : the Sermon on the Mount in George Santanyana's The Idea of Christ / Jacob L. Goodson - Martin Luther King Jr., scripture, and the ethics of love / Eric Reitan - Agapic love as the sole principle of logic : John's Gospel, John's Epistles, and C.S. Peirce's philosophy / Daivd O'Hara - What is the problem of Christianity? echoes of John's theology in Josiah Royce's absolute idealism / William Wesley Elkins - William James on the doctrine of Transubstantiation : American Transcendentalism versus Roman Catholicism / Jacob L. Goodson, Quinlan C. Stein - "Putting Away Childish Things" : six scenes of instruction in Stanley Cavell's Little Did I Know / Peter Dula - "And the Greatest of These Is Love" : Richard Rorty's turn to scripture / Jacob L. Goodson
- How Jonathan Edwards reads the Christian Scriptures / Roger Ward - How C.S. Peirce's pragmatism helps for interpreting the Qur'an / Isra Yazicioglu.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781498537957
- 1498537952
- OCLC:
- 1119622090
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