God, Values, and Empiricism: Issues in Philosophical TheologyCreighton Peden, Larry E. Axel Mercer University Press, 1989 - 252 pages |
Contents
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A Sketch from an American Predicament | 42 |
A Pious Naturalism | 53 |
Consequences of William Jamess Pragmatism in Religion | 64 |
Rethinking Empiricism in Theology | 136 |
William Bernhardts Theory of Religious Values | 147 |
On Evolution and Religious Humanism | 159 |
A MuchNeglected and Misunderstood Thinker | 168 |
Science Nature and God | 179 |
Reflections on the Thought of Josiah Royce | 187 |
Objective Subjective or Neither? | 195 |
The Birth of God | 204 |
Methodological Parameters for a Naturalistic Christian Theology | 73 |
A Dual Theory of Theological Analogy | 85 |
Must God Be Infinite? | 92 |
Melands PostLiberal Empirical Method in Theology | 99 |
Reinbold Niebuhrs Use of William James | 109 |
Bernhardts Philosophy and the Study of World Religions | 118 |
Problems with Transcendence | 128 |
Uncovering the Dimension of Ultimacy | 209 |
The Debates between William H Bernhardt and Henry Nelson Wieman 19421943 | 220 |
Bernhardts Functional Philosophy of Religion | 231 |
A Strange Blindness | 239 |
About the Authors | 249 |
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