Neopragmatism and Theological Reason

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2013 M05 28 - 176 pages

Neopragmatism and Theological Reason examines the recent explosion of interest in pragmatism. Part I traces the source of classical pragmatism's distinctive thought to Peirce, James, and Dewey – specifically to their shared theological understanding inherited from Emerson's Transcendentalism and British Romanticism. Part II reconstructs this rationality for postmodernity, showing how neopragmatism, properly understood, is theological reason. Kimura discusses the return of religious themes in philosophers like Putnam, Cavell, and Rorty and critiques the neopragmatic theologies of West, McFague, and Kaufman.

Neopragmatism and Theological Reason explores pragmatic themes across philosophy, theology, and literary theory, arguing that neopragmatism must acknowledge its theological sources and then reconstruct its rationality to the religious context of modernity/postmodernity.

 

Contents

Part I
1
Neopragmatism in Crisis
3
Emerson Part I
15
Emerson Part II
25
Peirce
37
James
53
Dewey
69
Part II
83
Early Neopragmatism
85
Neokantianism and Neopragmatism
101
Literary Neopragmatism
115
Neopragmatism and the Return of Religion
129
Conclusion Neopragmatism and Theology
145
Index
161
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About the author (2013)

G.W. Kimura is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Alaska Humanities Forum, USA.

Bibliographic information

TitleNeopragmatism and Theological Reason
Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
AuthorDr G W Kimura
ContributorsRevd Jeff Astley, Professor James A Beckford, Mr Richard Brummer, Professor Vincent Brümmer, Professor Paul S Fiddes, Professor T J Gorringe, Mr Stanley J Grenz, Mr Richard Hutch, Dr David Jasper, Ms Judith Lieu, Professor Geoffrey Samuel, Mr Gerhard Sauter, Professor Adrian Thatcher, Canon Anthony C Thiselton, Mr Terrance Tilley, Mr Alan Torrance, Mr Miroslav Volf, Mr Raymond Brady Williams
PublisherAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2013
ISBN1409477592, 9781409477594
Length176 pages
  
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