Chicka God the Created

Pragmatic Constructive Realism in Philosophy and Theology
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8721-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Develops a creative and provocative new model of God that brings together insights from both process theology and ground-of-being theology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chicka, Benjamin J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Benjamin J. Chicka is Lecturer in Philosophy and Religious Studies at Curry College.