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Beyond Monotheism : Discerning the Sacredness in Nature.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crosby, Donald A.
- Series:
- SUNY Series on Religion and the Environment Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (186 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Argues that nature in all of its aspects is its own creative, sustaining, sacred, salvific ground--and is the most appropriate focus today of ardent religious faith.In Beyond Monotheism , Donald A.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One Revelatory Theism
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Martin Buber
- Critical Reflections on Revelation as Self-Confirming
- Conclusion
- Chapter Two God as the Projected Image of Man
- Revelation and the Religious Commitment to One Personal God
- Feuerbach's Critique of Revelation as the Basis of Religious Commitment
- God's Relation to Nature
- The Monotheistic Conception of God
- The Trinitarian View of God
- Critical Reflections
- Chapter Three The God Above God
- Four Categories of Finitude
- Three Polar Elements of Finitude
- The God Above God and Yet Meaningfully Available as God
- Religious Symbols as Revelational Bridges between the Finite and the Infinite
- Critical Discussion of Tillich's View of God
- Chapter Four God and History
- A Priori Reasoning
- Ordinary Empirical Revelatory Evidence
- Extraordinary Empirical Revelatory Evidence
- Critical Discussion of Schelling's Conception of God
- A Bit More on Whitehead's Metaphysical God
- Chapter Five Natural Science and Theological Metaphysics
- Theological Metaphysics
- God as a Personal Being
- Rootage of Theological Metaphysics in Revelation
- Particular Revelations and Universal Truth
- Relations of the Particular and General
- The Cosmological Anthropic Principle
- Critical Comments
- Chapter Six The Probability of Monotheism
- Swinburne's Concept of God
- God and the Teleological, Moral, and Aesthetic Aspects of Experience
- Biological Evolution, Human Mind-Body Dualism, and the Afterlife
- Religious Experience and Commitment to God
- The Problem of Evil
- Critical Response to These Arguments
- Chapter Seven Religion Without God or Gods
- The Nature of Nature
- What Is Religious About Nature
- Ambiguities of Nature.
- Primal Sin in a Religion of Nature
- No Absolute Assurance in a Religion of Nature
- Chapter Eight Physics, Biology, and a Philosophical Perspective on Religious Naturalism
- The Religious Naturalism of Physicist Chet Raymo
- The Religious Naturalism of Biologist Stuart A. Kauffman
- The Religious Naturalism of Philosopher Carol Wayne White
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-558-0416-4
- OCLC:
- 1537947079
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