The Minimalist Vision of Transcendence
Author: Jerome Arthur Stone
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780791411599
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The Promise of Religious Naturalism
Author: Michael S. Hogue
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2010-12-28
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1442205954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Promise of Religious Naturalism explores religious naturalism as a distinctly promising form of contemporary religious ethics. Examining how religious naturalism responds to the challenges of recent religious transformations and ecological peril worldwide, author Michael Hogue argues that religious naturalism is emerging as an increasingly plausible and potentially rewarding form of religious moral life. Beginning with an introduction of religious naturalism in the larger context of religious and ethical theories, the book undertakes the first extended study of the works of religious naturalists Loyal Rue, Donald Crosby, Jerome Stone, and Ursula Goodenough. Hogue pays particular attention to the ethical components of religious naturalism in relation to religious pluralism and ecological issues.
Sacred Nature
Author: Jerome A. Stone
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-06-26
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 1317484398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSacred Nature examines the crisis of environmental degradation through the prism of religious naturalism, which seeks rich spiritual engagement in a world without a god. Jerome Stone introduces students to the growing field of religious naturalism, exploring a series of questions about how it addresses the environmental crises, evaluating the merits of public prophetic discourse that uses the language of spirituality. He presents and defends the concept of religious naturalism while drawing out the implications of religious naturalism for addressing some of the major environmental issues facing humans today. This book is designed for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as scholars specializing in contemporary religious thought or environmental studies.
Religious Naturalism Today
Author: Jerome A. Stone
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2008-12-18
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0791477916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreviously a forgotten option in religious thinking, religious naturalism is coming back. It seeks to explore and encourage religious ways of responding to the world on a completely naturalistic basis without a supreme being or ground of being. In this book, Jerome A. Stone traces its history and analyzes some of the issues dividing religious naturalists. He includes analysis of nearly fifty distinguished philosophers, theologians, scientists, and figures in art and literature, both living and dead. They range from Ursula Goodenough, Gordon Kaufman, William Dean, Thomas Berry, and Gary Snyder to Jan Christiaan Smuts, William Bernhardt, Gregory Bateson, and Sharon Welch.
Essays in Postfoundationalist Theology
Author: Jacobus Wentzel Van Huyssteen
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0802843093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays boldly addresses many of the challenges faced by Christian theology in the context of contemporary postmodern thought. Handling abstract topics in a remarkably clear and concise way, J. Wentzel van Huyssteen presses the case for a "postfoundationalist theology" as a viable third option beyond the extremes of foundationalism and nonfoundationalism. Van Huyssteen discusses themes related to rationality, epistemology, and philosophy of science. In the process he critically engages the work of such thinkers as Wolfhart Pannenberg, Nancey Murphy, Jerome Stone, and Gerd Theissen. The result is a convincing argument that only a truly accessible and philosophically credible notion of interdisciplinarity will be able to pave the way for a plausible public theology that can play an important intellectual role in our fragmented culture today.
Transcending Fictionalism
Author: Jessica Eastwood
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2024-05-16
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1350327638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring alternative conceptions of the divine, Jessica Eastwood considers the ways of believing in God that are authentic and sincere, moving beyond traditional metaphysical structures that many find difficult to accept. In this study, she examines a unique branch of religious non-realism known as religious fictionalism, making the case for its ability to resonate on an intellectual and emotional level. Considering the extent to which fictionalism allows us to make sense of the role of religion in our spiritual lives, she presents its limitations on adhering to what might be an attractive contemporary model for philosophy of religion called 'the humane turn'. Articulating an alternative conception of God that we can relate to in an intellectual, emotional and spiritual way, Eastwood sheds light on a minimalist form of religious realism, which preserves the reality of God without committing the theist to a host of additional religious beliefs.
The Making of American Liberal Theology
Author: Gary J. Dorrien
Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 682
ISBN-13: 0664223567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this first of three volumes, Dorrien identifies the indigenous roots of American liberal theology and demonstrates a wider, longer-running tradition than has been thought. The tradition took shape in the nineteenth century, motivated by a desire to map a modernist "third way" between orthodoxy and rationalistic deism/atheism. It is defined by its openness to modern intellectual inquiry; its commitment to the authority of individual reason and experience; its conception of Christianity as an ethical way of life; and its commitment to make Christianity credible and socially relevant to modern people. Dorrien takes a narrative approach and provides a biographical reading of important religious thinkers of the time, including William E. Channing, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace Bushnell, Henry Ward Beecher, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Charles Briggs. Dorrien notes that, although liberal theology moved into elite academic institutions, its conceptual foundations were laid in the pulpit rather than the classroom.
The Shaping of Rationality
Author: J. Wentzel van Huyssteen
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 1999-07-20
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780802838681
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book arises out of a deep fascination with the relationship between human intelligence and rationality, and with how our fragile but uniquely human ability to be rational invariably affects our everyday lives as well as our involvement with faith, theology, and the spectacular scientific achievements of our time. After carefully analyzing the notion of rationality and examining how the skill of rationality is being challenged by postmodern culture, J. Wentzel van Huyssteen argues that it is precisely the problem of rationality that holds the key to understanding the complex forces shaping the radically different domains of religion and science today.
The Church Building as a Sacred Place
Author: Duncan Stroik
Publisher: Liturgy Training Publications
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1595250379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of twenty-three essays by Duncan Stroik shows the development and consistency of his architectural vision. Packed with informative essays and over 170 photographs, this collection clearly articulates the Church’s architectural tradition.
