Concerning Creativity: A Comparison of Chu Hsi, Whitehead, and Neville (SUNY Series in Religious Studies) - Couverture souple

Berthrong, John H.

 
9780791439449: Concerning Creativity: A Comparison of Chu Hsi, Whitehead, and Neville (SUNY Series in Religious Studies)
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ISBN 10 : 0791439445 ISBN 13 : 9780791439449
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1998

Synopsis

A cross-cultural comparsion of creativity that introduces Neo-Confucian discourse as a sophisticated dialogue partner with modern western speculative philosophy and theology.

This work examines the philosophies and theologies of three thinkers-Chu Hsi, Alfred North Whitehead, and Robert C. Neville-separated by time, space, and culture. In so doing John H. Berthrong provides a suggestive and successful comparison of creativity as a cross-cultural theme while introducing Neo-Confucianism as a sophisticated dialogue partner with modern Western speculative philosophy and theology.

Creativity lies at the heart of the discourse of Chu Hsi (1130-1200) and Alfred North Whitehead. For both, creativity emerges as an attempt to illustrate the organic unity of the world without resorting to an appeal to a source for creativity beyond the concrete actuality of the cosmos. Subtle critics such as Robert C. Neville argue that process thought is fatally flawed because Whitehead separated creativity from the other crucial elements of his system. By interjecting the Chinese Neo-Confucian synthesis of Chu Hsi, it is possible to show how creativity can be re-integrated into process discourse as creative synthesis.

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À propos de l?auteur

John H. Berthrong is Associate Professor of Comparative Theology at Boston University School of Theology. He is the author of several books, including Concerning Creativity: A Comparison of Chu Hsi, Whitehead, and Neville and All Under Heaven: Transforming Paradigms in Confucian-Christian Dialogue, both also published by SUNY Press.

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Éditeur
State University of New York Press
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0791439445
ISBN 13 
9780791439449
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
278
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780791439432: Concerning Creativity: A Comparison of Chu Hsi, Whitehead, and Neville

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ISBN 10 :  0791439437 ISBN 13 :  9780791439432
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1998
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