Existence: Philosophical Theology - Couverture rigide

Neville, Robert Cummings

 
9781438453316: Existence: Philosophical Theology
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1438453310 ISBN 13 : 9781438453316
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2014

Synopsis

The second volume in a trilogy advancing a systematic philosophical theology, this book explores the realities of human existence articulated by religion.

Religion, writes Robert Cummings Neville, articulates existential predicaments and provides venues for ecstatic fulfillment. Like its companion volumes treating ultimacy and religion, Existence advances a systematic philosophical theology to address first-order questions found in the array of Axial Age religions. Issues arising in the major religious traditions are explored through a complex array of philosophical approaches. This second volume shows religion to be the engagement of ultimate realities common to all human beings. Neville finds five problematics relative to ultimate boundary conditions of the human world: the contingency of existence, living under obligation, the quest for wholeness, engagement with others, and the meaning or value in life. Common to all human beings and hence "religion," the engagement with realities is also historically and culturally bound, becoming simultaneously socially constructed "religions." Readers will find Neville's philosophical theology both bold and enlightening, running counter to dominant intellectual trends while richly informed by a long and fruitful engagement with theology, philosophy, and religion, East and West.

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À propos de l?auteur

Robert Cummings Neville is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology at Boston University. His many books include Metaphysics of Goodness: Harmony and Form, Beauty and Art, Obligation and Personhood, Flourishing and Civilization, also published by SUNY Press.

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Éditeur
State University of New York Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1438453310
ISBN 13 
9781438453316
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
412
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2015
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