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4Radical Interpretation in Religion (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2002.This landmark interdisciplinary volume presents methodological options for the study of religion in the twenty-first century. Ten distinguished scholars offer radical interpretations of religious belief and language from a variety of perspectives: anthropology of religion, ritual studies, cognitive psychology, semantics, post-analytic philosophy, history of religions, and philosophy of religion. For the first time, a collection of original essays explores the significance of Donald Davidson's 'r…Read more
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9On Empty Compliments and Deceptive DetoursJournal of Religious Ethics 27 (1): 129-136. 1999.The philosophical question Nunez raises is whether we can have, as he thinks we need, a theoretical grounding for appeal to the intrinsic value of nature. This article examines the neopragmatist reasons for repudiating metaphysical realism's notions of intrinsicality and subject-independent reality. Following the holism of Donald Davidson and Richard Rorty rather than the epistemological premises of Holmes Rolston and Bernard Lonergan, the author concludes that coping with the ecological crisis …Read more
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17Sheila Greeve Davaney, Pragmatic Historicism: A Theology for the Twenty-First Century. Albany: State University Press of New York, 2000. Pp. xv + 223. ISBN 0-7914-4693-X (review)Contemporary Pragmatism 1 (1): 174-178. 2004.
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3Pragmatists, predatory males, and tough broadsAmerican Journal of Theology and Philosophy 24 (1). 2003.
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1Language, Truth, and Religious Belief: Studies in Twentieth-Century Theory and Method in ReligionAmerican Journal of Theology and Philosophy 20 (3): 281-285. 1999.
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Weakening religious belief : Vattimo, Rorty, and the holism of the mentalIn Santiago Zabala (ed.), Weakening philosophy: essays in honour of Gianni Vattimo, Mcgill-queen's University Press. 2007.
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1Inquiry and the language of the divine: A reply to ProudfootAmerican Journal of Theology and Philosophy 14 (3). 1993.
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6The argument of this article is that, philosophically, there are but three broad conceptual models that Western thought employs in thinking about the meaning of God. At the level of greatest generality, these are the models known as classical theism, pantheism, and panentheism. The essay surveys and updates these three conceptual models in light of recent writings, finds more flaws in classical theism and panentheism than in pantheism, and suggests a feminist response to each.
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15Some Problems in Process TheodicyReligious Studies 17 (2). 1981.What good is divinity if it can come only in dreams and shadows…? It is a well-known and rarely challenged assumption that one of the chief merits of Whitehead's cosmology is that it enables religious thinkers to come at the problem of God in relation to the presence of evil in an entirely new way. Among the virtues most commonly appealed to in praise of the Whiteheadian theodicy are its emphasis on God's persuasive, rather than controlling power; its defence of the moral goodness of the God who…Read more
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Metaphilosophy |
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Philosophy of Religion |
20th Century Philosophy |