New Essays in Religious Naturalism
The essays in this volume were selected from those presented at a Conference on American Religious Thought sponsored by the Highlands Institute for American Religious Thought, at Highlands, North Carolina. The Highlands Institute is a community of productive scholars with diverse theological and philosophical perspectives. The Institute contributes to the academic study of religion through interpretive, critical, and constructive reflections whose principal focus is on distinctively American...
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The essays in this volume were selected from those presented at a Conference on American Religious Thought sponsored by the Highlands Institute for American Religious Thought, at Highlands, North Carolina. The Highlands Institute is a community of productive scholars with diverse theological and philosophical perspectives. The Institute contributes to the academic study of religion through interpretive, critical, and constructive reflections whose principal focus is on distinctively American religious thought. It fosters broad discussion of relevant options through its sponsorship of conferences, seminars, workshops, and publications. The work of the Institute emphasizes (1) the interface between theology and philosophy, especially where theological efforts have utilized the American philosophical tradition; (2) the history and development of liberal religious thought in America; (3) themes pertinent to the "Chicago School" of theology, and (4) naturalism in American theology and philosophy.
PrefaceIn MemoriamMeland and Loomer: Forging An Alternative to Patriarchal Secularism1Pragmatism, Process, and Courage11Marginalizing the Life of Language: Radical Empiricism as a Critique of Gadamer21A Functional-Empirical Approach to the "Whitehead Without God" Debate33Directions in Historicism: Language, Experience, and Pragmatic Adjudication49The Persistence of Experience: A Commentary on Kaufman's Theology67Salvation in the Theologies of Henry Nelson Wieman and Mordecai M. Kaplan83The Normative Argument for a Valuational Theism99Meland's Naturalistic God111Mythic Logic: Theological Implications of a Melandean Epistemology125Empirical Realism in Theology: An Examination of Some Themes in Meland and Loomer135The World's Parliament of Religions Revisited161How I Got That Way: An Intellectual Autobiography173John H. Dietrich: On "Ethics without God"187Pragmatically Defining the God Concepts of Henry Nelson Wieman and Gordon Kaufman199Peircean Semiotics, Religion, and Theological Realism211How Far Can Kaufman Go Towards Naturalism?: The Divine Plurality as a Test225The Possibilities for Religious Language: A Dialogue Between Gordon Kaufman and Ludwig Wittgenstein235About the Authors247
