| Description |
xxiii, 387 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Philosophical theology ; volume 2 |
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Neville, Robert C.
Philosophical theology ; v. 2.
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| Note |
"Volume two." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Religion, writes Robert Cummings Neville, articulates existential predicaments and provides venues for ecstatic fulfillment. Like its companion volumes treating ultimacy and religion, this book advances a systematic philosophical theology to address first-order questions found in the array of Axial Age religions. Issues arising in the major religious traditions are explored through a complex array of philosophical approaches. This second volume shows religion to be the engagement of ultimate realities common to all human beings. Neville finds five problematics relative to ultimate boundary conditions of the human world : the contingency of existence, living under obligation, the quest for wholeness, engagement with others, and the meaning or value in life. Common to all human beings and hence "religion," the engagement with realities is also historically and culturally bound becoming simultaneously socially constructed "religions." Readers will find Neville's philosophical theology both bold and enlightening, running counter to dominant intellectual trends while richly informed by a long and fruitful engagement with theology, philosophy, and religion, East and West. --from back cover. |
| Contents |
Part I: Ultimate boundary conditions. For as the condition of obligation ; Components as the condition of grounded wholeness ; Existential location as the condition for engagement ; Value-identity as the condition for meaning -- Part II: Predicaments and deliverances. Guild and justification ; Disintegration and centeredness ; Estragement and connection ; Meaninglessness and happiness -- Part III: Ecstatic fulfillments. Ecstatic meaning in time ; Ecstatic life in eternity ; Ecstatic love ; Ecstatic freedom -- Part IV: Engagement and participation. Ritual ; Commitment ; The life of faith ; Inhabitation of a sacred worldview. |
| Subject |
Theological anthropology.
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Philosophy and religion.
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Ontology.
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Ontology. (OCoLC)fst01045995
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Philosophy and religion. (OCoLC)fst01060826
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Theological anthropology. (OCoLC)fst01431587
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Philosophische Theologie. (DE-588)4207262-1
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Theologische Anthropologie. (DE-588)4059766-0
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Existenz. (DE-588)4015968-1
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| ISBN |
9781438453316 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1438453310 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9781438453323 (paperback) |
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1438453329 (paperback) |
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