God the Created
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-8719-9 (ISBN)
In God the Created, Benjamin Chicka develops a method of inquiry and program for theology that he labels "pragmatic constructive realism." While influenced most heavily by American pragmatism, especially that of Charles S. Peirce, Chicka’s method draws upon a variety of sources, ranging from Plato to Karl Popper, Paul Tillich, and the field of biosemiotics. Chicka presents pragmatic constructive realism as a means of moving past binary debates between realism and antirealism in both philosophy and theology, and its fruitfulness is displayed by examining the philosophical theologies of John Cobb and Robert Cummings Neville. The result of that engagement is a novel hypothesis about God that embraces legitimate criticisms of both process theology (Cobb) and ground-of-being theology (Neville) while integrating insights from both ways of thinking. God's transcendence and immanence, indeterminacy and determinacy are fully affirmed. The entire argument serves as an example of why a fallible and pluralistic form of theology, one that embraces and learns from difference instead of trying to eliminate it, is important for the future of theology.
Benjamin J. Chicka is Lecturer in Philosophy and Religious Studies at Curry College.
Preface
Pragmatic Constructive Realism
Acknowledgments
Introduction
A Sketch of the Argument
1. Realism, Constructivism, and Their Discontents
Realism versus Constructivism in Philosophy and Science
Philosophical Implications for Religion
Realism versus Constructivism in Theology
Beyond the Impasse?
2. Beyond the Impasse: Charles S. Peirce and American Pragmatism
"Paper" Doubt and Groundless Grounds
Triads in Human Inquiry and the Natural World
Peirce's Musings on God
3. Pragmatic Constructive Realism
Peirce and Neopragmatists
Peirce and Classical Pragmatists
Peirce without Panpsychism
Peirce without Evolutionary Love
From Constructivism or Realism to Pragmatic Constructive Realism
4. Emerging Philosophically and Theologically
Two Giants of Modern Theology
Tillich's Realism and Barth's Constructivism in Theology
Transcending Whitehead
5. John Cobb's Creative Transformation
John Cobb's Peircean Habit
Challenges from and Challenges to Science
Process Philosophy and a Loving God
God's Revealing in God's Concealing
God the Container of Possibilities
Creative Transformation
6. Robert Neville's God the Creator
Robert Neville's Peircean Habit
The Indeterminate One and the Determinate Many
Divine Wildness over Goodness
Transcendence and Immanence?
True Engagement, Broken Symbols
Challenges from and Challenges to Science
Steps toward a More Complete Model of God the Creator
7. Reinvigorating the Cobb-Neville Dialogue
Criticisms and Defenses of God the Container
Criticisms and Defenses of God the Creator
An Explanation of Different Peircean Habits
Different Names for the Same Concern
Two Valid Guesses at the Riddle
8. A Pragmatic Constructive Realist Model of God
Pragmatic Constructive Realism: A New Name for a New Way of Thinking
The Unnecessary Nature of God the Container
Concrete Determinations of God the Creator
Emergence and Growth in God the Created
9. Pragmatic Pluralism and Theological Progress
The Paradox of Pluralism
Conclusion
The Courage to Continue Creating God
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.02.2022 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 0 |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 227 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4384-8719-3 / 1438487193 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4384-8719-9 / 9781438487199 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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