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ISBN 10: 079145424X

ISBN 13: 9780791454244

Author: Robert Cummings Neville

A well-known theologian and philosopher offers a late-modern perspective on religion, one opposed to the received truths of postmodern religious thought. Religion in Late Modernity runs against the grain of common suppositions of contemporary theology and philosophy of religion. Against the common supposition that basic religious terms have no real reference but are mere functions of human need, the book presents a pragmatic theory of religious symbolism in terms of which the cognitive engagement of the Ultimate is of a piece with the cognitive engagement of nature and persons. Throughout this discussion, Neville develops a late-modern conception of God that is defensible in a global theological public. Against the common supposition that religion is on the retreat in late modernity except in fundamentalist forms, the author argues that religion in our time is a stimulus to religiously oriented scholarship, a civilizing force among world societies, a foundation for obligation in politics, a source for healthy social experimentation, and the most important mover of soul. Against the common supposition that religious thinking or theology is confessional and inevitably biased in favor of the thinker’s community, Neville argues for the public character of theology, the need for history and phenomenology of religion in philosophy of religion, and the possibility of objectivity through the contextualization of philosophy, contrary to the fashionable claims of neo-pragmatism. This vigorous analysis and program for religious thinking is straightforwardly pro-late-modern and anti-postmodern, a rousing gallop along the high road around modernism.

Table of contents:

1. The Contingencies of Nature
Nature Defined
Cosmological Contingency: Determinateness and Time’s Flow
Ontological Contingency: Creation and Eternity
Symbols of Ontological Asymmetry

2. Human Nature
Defining Human Nature
To Be under Obligation
The Human Condition
Orientation and Poise

3. Religious Symbols
Symbolic Meaning and Religion
The Reference of Religious Symbols
The Interpretation of Religious Symbols
The Truth of Religious Symbols

4. The Symbols of Divine Action
The Concept of God
What Can We Know about God?
When Can We Say God Is a Personal Agent?
When Should We Not Say God Is a Personal Agent?

5. Eternity and the Transformation of Soul
Eternity as a Contemporary Problem
Plotinus and Eternity
The Transformation of Soul to Engage Eternity
The Engagement of Eternity
Eternity Engaged through the Temporal
Eternity in Time: Real and Illusory
Eternity and Immortality

6. Religion and Scholarship
Recent History of the Study of Religions
Participation and Distance in a Typology of the Study of Religions
Models of Spirituality among Historically Conscious Scholars

7. Religion and Society
World Society, World Culture, World Community
The Causal Effectiveness of Religions
Global Modernization and Religious Traditions
Maitreyan Strategies

8. Religion and Politics: Spheres of Tolerance
Religious Wars and the Alleged Privacy of Religion
Obligation and Civil Religion
Ultimacy and Religions’ Essential Features
Political Tolerance of Religions
Religion and Public Theology

9. Religion and the American Experiment
The American Religious Scene
The Experiment: An Hypothesis
What Makes Religions Religious

10. Religion and Vital Engagement
Engagement and Competence
Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Oversoul
The Soul Transformed
Emerson, Nietzsche, and Jesus: A Challenge to Modernism

11. The Public Character of Theology and Religious Studies

12. Religions, Philosophies, and Philosophy of Religion
The Impact of Scholarship on Philosophy of Religion
A Definition of Philosophy of Religion
The Problematic of Translation and Comparison
Comparison, Philosophy, and Theology

13. A Paleopragmatic Philosophy of the History of Philosophy
Paleopragmatism
Signs: The Phenomenology, Comparison, and Lineages of Philosophies
Phenomenology of Philosophy
Comparative Philosophy
Philosophical Influences
Philosophies as Referents: Structures, Insights, Orientation
Philosophic Conceptual Structures as Icons
Philosophies as Indices
Philosophies as Conventional Orientations of Life: Symbolic Reference
Philosophies as Interpretive Engagements: Truth, Usability, Fallibilism
Philosophies as True or False in Their Contexts
Historical Philosophies as Contemporary Resources
Historical Philosophies as Correctives

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