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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

This book provides a cross-cultural analysis of how religious symbols function from a theological and philosophical perspective. Showing how religious symbols can be true in various qualified senses, Neville presents a theory of religious symbolism in the American pragmatic tradition extending and elaborating Tillich's claim that religious symbols participate in the divine realities to which they refer and yet must be broken in order not to be idolatrous or demonic. The Truth of Broken Symbols offers a theory of religious symbolism treating reference, meaning, and interpretation, and discussing different functions of religious symbols in theological, practical, and devotional contexts. It shows that religious symbols are to be properly understood as true or false and that symbol-systems such as myths, theologies, or liturgical symbols are to be used to engage divine realities while internally exhibiting semiotic structures of reference, meaning, and interpretation.