Realism in religion: a pragmatist's perspective

Abstract

Realism and truth -- Theologies of identity and truth : legacies of barth and tillich -- Barth and Tillich on theology : narrative and system -- Legacies of narrative and system -- Truth, identity, and authority -- Truth in theology -- Roots of the evasion of truth and their antidotes -- Liberal theology as a near miss -- Theology as symbolic engagement -- Metaphysics for theology -- Realism and contextualization -- Postliberalism and theological inquiry -- Religious symbols : engagement -- Religious symbols : interpretation -- All truth is contextual -- The comparative context for religious truth -- How to read scriptures for religious truth -- Scriptures for engagement -- Imaginative differences -- Symbolic interpretation -- Criteria for reading scriptures for truth -- Systematic theology in a global public -- System and its public : three values -- Truth and realism -- Minimizing arbitrariness -- Vulnerability in a global public -- Realism in pragmatism -- A peircean theory of religious interpretation -- Engagement and reference -- Reference and apophatic theology -- Meaning and truth -- Interpretation -- The contributions of Charles S. Peirce to philosophy of religion 1- The evolutionary weight of religion -- Contributions to theology -- Comparative theology -- The importance of erudition -- Intuition : a platonizing of pragmatism -- Intuition and immediate unity -- A theory of harmony -- Judgment and interpretation -- Intuition and Plato's divided line -- Whitehead and pragmatism -- The entangled legacies of pragmatism and process philosophy -- Tensions regarding time and continuity -- Eternity and time -- Creation, eternity, time, and continuity -- Philosophy of nature in american theology -- Jonathan Edwards -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The pragmatists -- Alfred North Whitehead -- Realism in religion and metaphysics -- Concepts of God in comparative theology -- Conceptions of god in comparison -- Theoretical issues in comparison -- Observations about ultimacy -- An hypothesis about the respect in which concepts of ultimacy interpret reality -- Some contemporary theories of divine creation -- Classifications of conceptions of God -- Process theology -- Ground-of-being theologies -- Piety and conceptions of God -- Descartes and Leibniz on the priority of nature versus will in God -- Texts and arguments -- Transcendence and immanence -- Tillich and Hartshorne as Descartes and Leibniz -- Experience and reason -- The metaphysical sense in which life is eternal -- Introduction : immortality and eternal life -- Time and eternity : a metaphysical analysis -- Eternity in the divine life of God -- Eternity and time in human life