The tao and the daimon : segments of a religious inquiry / Robert C. Neville. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neville, Robert C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creation.

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Philosophical theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 281 p. )

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1982.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter one: Accountability in theology

I. Theology

II. Accountability and inquiry

III. Practical implications

Chapter two: Authority and experience in religious ethics

I. Decline of authority

II. Ontology and cosmology in religion

III. Cosmological ethics, ontological religion

Chapter three: Philosophical theology : the case of the Holy Spirit

I. The Holy Spirit as the Creator's presence

II. God the Creator and Trinity

III. The holy spirit as a systematic speculative problem

IV. God and the Holy Spirit in public inquiry

Chapter four: Creation and the Trinity

I. The metaphysics of Creation

II. Trinitarian persons

III. Economy and immanence

IV. Begetting and creating

Chapter five: Can God create people and address them too?

I. That God can

II. How God might address

III. The address and life in the Spirit

Chapter six: The empirical cases of world religions

I. The speculative hypothesis

II. The Empirical task of theology

III. Practical conclusions

Chapter seven: The notion of creation in Chinese thought

I. Creation Ex Nihilo

II. Taoism

III. Confucianism

Chapter eight: Process and the neo-Confucian cosmos

I. Manifesting the clear character

II. Loving the people

III. Abiding in the highest good

IV. Investigation of things

V. Harmony and creation

Chapter nine: Buddhism and process philosophy

I. Process

II. Relationships and causation

III. Unity and interpenetration

IV. Creation

Chapter ten: The Daimon and the Tao of faith

I. Faith as preparation

II. Faith as certainty

III. Forsaking wrong attachments

Chapter eleven: The Daimon and the Tao of practice

I. Two levels of truth

II. Two truths as a philosophic claim

III. Concepts in the higher truth

IV. Scholarship in practice

Postscript

I. The Daimon in the Tao

II. Four Loci of the Tao

III. Silence and the sufficient conditions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-4384-1459-5

0-585-05527-0