Pragmatic Theology

Pragmatic Theology
Title Pragmatic Theology PDF eBook
Author Victor Anderson
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 192
Release 1998-01-29
Genre Religion
ISBN 0791494861

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Pragmatic Theology argues for a vision of religious life that is derived from the tradition of American pragmatism (James, Dewey, Royce); empirical theology (Chicago School, D.C. Macintosh, H. Richard Niebuhr); and American philosophy of religion (Stone, Frankenberry, Corrington). The author argues that there is a divine reality in human experience that when encountered gives meaning and value to a person's need for cultural fulfillment and to his or her religious need for self-transcendence. The book commends the openness of nature, the world, and human experience to creative transformation and growth. It supports the increase of human capacities to create morally livable and fulfilling communities, the enhancement of the free play of interpretation, and a social order where democratic utopian expectations are envisioned and actualized.

Pragmatic Theology

Pragmatic Theology
Title Pragmatic Theology PDF eBook
Author Victor Anderson
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 192
Release 1998-01-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780791436370

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Argues that while contemporary American philosophies and philosophers of religion are proclaiming the end of theology, a neopragmatism has arrived to fill the void in meaning and moral fulfillment to which theology once supplied answers.

Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Religion

Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Religion
Title Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Religion PDF eBook
Author Michael R. Slater
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 219
Release 2014-08-14
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1107077273

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Michael R. Slater argues for the contemporary relevance of pragmatist views in the philosophy of religion.

Peirce, James, and a Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion

Peirce, James, and a Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion
Title Peirce, James, and a Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion PDF eBook
Author John W. Woell
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 226
Release 2012-02-09
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1441168001

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Shows how an understanding of the intentionality underlining the pragmatism of Peirce and James can herald new interpretations of the interplay between philosophy and religion.

Pragmatic Spirituality

Pragmatic Spirituality
Title Pragmatic Spirituality PDF eBook
Author Gayraud S. Wilmore
Publisher NYU Press
Pages 336
Release 2004-07
Genre Religion
ISBN 0814793959

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A collection of the writings by one of the most influential African American theologians.

Pascal's Wager

Pascal's Wager
Title Pascal's Wager PDF eBook
Author Jeff Jordan
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 240
Release 2006-10-26
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0199291322

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What if there is no strong evidence that God exists? Is belief in God when faced with a lack of evidence illegitimate and improper? Evidentialism answers yes. According to Evidentialism, it is impermissible to believe any proposition lacking adequate evidence. And if any thesis enjoys the status of a dogma among philosophers, it is Evidentialism. Presenting a direct challenge to Evidentialism are pragmatic arguments for theism, which are designed to support belief in the absenceof adequate evidence. Pascal's Wager is the most prominent theistic pragmatic argument, and issues in epistemology, the ethics of belief, and decision theory, as well as philosophical theology, all intersect at the Wager. Other prominent theistic pragmatic arguments include William James'scelebrated essay, 'The Will to Believe'; a posthumously published and largely ignored pragmatic argument authored by J.S. Mill, supporting the propriety of hoping that quasi-theism is true; the eighteenth-century Scottish essayist James Beattie's argument that the consoling benefit of theistic belief is so great that theistic belief is permissible even when one thinks that the existence of God is less likely than not; and an argument championed by the nineteenth-century French philosopher JulesLachelier, which based its case for theistic belief on the empirical benefits of believing as a theist, even if theism was very probably false.In Pascal's Wager: Pragmatic Arguments and Belief in God, Jeff Jordan explores various theistic pragmatic arguments, and the objections employed against them. Jordan presents a new version of the Wager, what he calls the 'Jamesian Wager', and argues that the Jamesian Wager survives the objections hurled against theistic pragmatic arguments and provides strong support for theistic belief. In addition to arguing for a sound version of the Wager, Jordan also argues that there is aversion of Evidentialism compatible with a principled use of pragmatic arguments, and that the Argument from Divine Silence fails. Objections found in Voltaire, Hume, and Nietzsche against the Wager are scrutinized, as are objections issued by Richard Swinburne, Richard Gale, and other contemporary philosophers.The ethics of belief, the many-gods objection, the problem of infinite utilities, and the propriety of a hope based acceptance are also examined.

Peirce, James, and a Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion

Peirce, James, and a Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion
Title Peirce, James, and a Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion PDF eBook
Author John W. Woell
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 184
Release 2012-02-09
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1441111204

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In this book, John W. Woell shows us how contemporary readings of American Pragmatism founded on mistakenly used categories of the Analytic tradition have led to misreadings of Peirce and James. By focusing on terms drawn largely from Descartes and Kant, contemporary debates between metaphysical realists, antirealists, Realists and Nonrealists, have, argues Woell, failed to shed great light on pragmatism in general and a pragmatic philosophy of religion in particular. Woell contends that paying close attention to the internal relationships among inquiry, belief, and their objects in the respective works of Peirce and James provides a means for fully appreciating pragmatism's richness as a resource for philosophy of religion. By taking account of a pragmatic point of view in philosophy of religion, this book incites a more productive discussion of the metaphysical status of religious objects and of the epistemic status of religious belief.