Strange, surprising, and sure : essays in uncommon philosophy and theology / Robert Cummings Neville.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neville, Robert C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--Philosophy.

Christianity.

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Theology.

Philosophers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : SUNY Press, [2024]

Summary:

Accessible and wide-ranging essays on the philosophy of religion.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

The Painter's Contribution

Preface

Prologue

"It Is Finished"

Everything Saved Together, or, The High Point of Suburban Life: Mark 16:1-8

Romans 6:3-11

Changes: Gen. 45:3-11, 15

Psalms. 92:1-4, 12-15

1 Cor. 15:35-38, 42-50

Luke 6:27-38

Have Courage: Isaiah 64: 1-9

1 Corinthians 1:3-9

Mark 13:24-37

Part One: Philosophy

Chapter 1: Being-Itself

Being-Itself

Determinateness

The Ontological Creative Act

Knowing Being-Itself

Chapter 2: Eternity

The Ontological Creative Act

Knowing Being-Itself

Chapter 3: Aesthetics

Harmony

Goodness

Beauty

Appreciation

Art

Chapter 4: Experience

Mystical Engagement

Meditation

Contemplation

Love's Path

Freedom's Path

Ultimate Obligation

Selfhood

Engaging Others

Value-Identity

Chapter 5: Emergence

The Problem of Emergence

Science and Emergence

Emergence and Religion

Chapter 6: Indeterminacy

Cosmological versus Ontological Indeterminacy

Cosmology

Chinese Ontology

Cases

Chapter 7: Wisdom

Philosophy and Wisdom

The Shortstop, Mengzi, and Xunzi

The Unity of the Virtues

Wisdom among the Others

Wisdom and the Wise

Chapter 8: Shallow Roots

Mobility

Continuity

Balance

Rootedness

Chapter 9: Pragmatism and Confucianism

Value in Interpretation

Ritual

Responsiveness

Continuities and Changes

Chapter 10: Philosophy

Philosophers

Cultures

Scales and Trajectories

Mixtures

Ultimacy

Part Two: Philosophers

Chapter 11: On Josiah Royce

Royce's Angles of Analysis

My Theory of Religion

Ontological Contingency

Righteousness

Wholeness

Others

The Meaning of Life

Chapter 12: On Alfred North Whitehead

Creation

Mistakes

History of Philosophy

Ecological Thinking

Chapter 13: On Robert Corrington

Psychoanalysis

Limits of Psychoanalysis

My Contrary Hypothesis

How Do We Compare?

Chapter 14: On Stefan Alkier

Pragmatists

Ultimate Conditions

Resurrection

Contemporary Congregants

Chapter 15: On Nancy Frankenberry

Cosmological Contingency

Eternity and Temporality

Chapter 16: On Charles Taylor

Agreements with Taylor

Broadening the Field of Modernity

A Metaphysical Mediation

Confucian Modernity

Chapter 17: On Ray L. Hart

Is All Thought Temporal?

Can God Be Perceived?

Is Creatio ex nihilo a Surprise?

Chapter 18: On Wesley Wildman

Theology in the Academy

Hypothesis and Understanding

Apophaticism

Religious Symbolism and Philosophy of Religion

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781438499635

1438499639

OCLC:

1457322577