C S Peirce And The Nested Continua Model Of Religious Interpretation

Author : Gary Slater
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191067532

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C.S. Peirce and the Nested Continua Model of Religious Interpretation by Gary Slater Pdf

This study develops resources in the work of Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) for the purposes of contemporary philosophy. It contextualizes Peirce's prevailing influences and provides greater context in relation to the currents of nineteenth-century thought. Dr Gary Slater articulates 'a nested continua model' for theological interpretation, which is indebted to Peirce's creation of 'Existential Graphs', a system of diagrams designed to provide visual representation of the process of human reasoning. He investigates how the model can be applied by looking at recent debates in historiography. He deals respectively with Peter Ochs and Robert C. Neville as contemporary manifestations of Peircean philosophical theology. This work concludes with an assessment of the model's theological implications.

Author : Gary Slater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0191814849

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C.S. Peirce and the Nested Continua Model of Religious Interpretation by Gary Slater Pdf

Author : Tim Hutchings,Claire Clivaz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110574043

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Digital Humanities and Christianity by Tim Hutchings,Claire Clivaz Pdf

This volume provides the first comprehensive introduction to the intersections between Christianity and the digital humanities. DH is a well-established, fast-growing, multidisciplinary field producing computational applications and analytical models to enable new kinds of research. Scholars of Christianity were among the first pioneers to explore these possibilities, using digital approaches to transform the study of Christian texts, history and ideas, and innovative work is taking place today all over the world. This volume aims to celebrate and continue that legacy by bringing together 15 of the most exciting contemporary projects, grouped into four categories. “Canon, corpus and manuscript” examines physical texts and collections. “Words and meanings” explores digital approaches to language and linguistics. “Digital history” uses digital techniques to explore the Christian past, and “Theology and pedagogy” engages with digital approaches to teaching, formation and Christian ideas. This volume introduces key debates, shares exciting initiatives, and aims to encourage new innovations in analysis and communication. Christianity and the Digital Humanities is ideally suited as a starting point for students and researchers interested in this vast and complex field.

Author : Cornelis De Waal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780197548561

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The Oxford Handbook of Charles S. Peirce by Cornelis De Waal Pdf

"The Oxford Handbook of Charles S. Peirce brings together 35 essays on the American philosopher and polymath Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) with the aim of showing how his work is still relevant today. The volume takes its cues from Peirce's work in phenomenology and normative philosophy-where the latter includes, besides aesthetics and ethics, also logic. Within the domain of logic, attention is given to his work in formal logic as well as his work in graphical or diagrammatic logic. Ample attention is given also to Peirce's pragmatism and his metaphysics. The volume further includes biographical papers as well as papers on abduction, semiotics, linguistics, physics, biology, religion, history, science, and education"--

Author : Jacob L. Goodson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608995585

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The Philosopher's Playground by Jacob L. Goodson Pdf

Since its inception in 1994, scriptural reasoning has been practiced by academics and religious laypeople on an international scale. Scriptural reasoning is an activity or practice where Jews, Christians, and Muslims read and study together short passages from their traditionally sacred texts. In this book, Jacob L. Goodson describes this activity by giving a tour through modern philosophy and showing how certain arguments, ideas, and theories from modern philosophers help make sense of this inter-religious practice. According to Goodson, one of the most interesting aspects of the practice of scriptural reasoning concerns how its driven by a tension between pragmatism and semiotics—what he calls purposefulness (pragmatism) vs. playfulness (semiotics) throughout the book. Can inter-religious practices only be playful, in terms of an academic “leisure activity”? Or do inter-religious practices need to strive toward a greater end or even a higher purpose, such as peace-making among the Abrahamic faiths or inter-religious friendships? In each individual chapter, Goodson explores this tension within the practice of scriptural reasoning. Utilizing Immanuel Kant’s deontology, Goodson concludes by demonstrating how the practice of scriptural reasoning might work if only two rules are in place while participating in it.

Author : Brandon Daniel-Hughes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319941936

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Pragmatic Inquiry and Religious Communities by Brandon Daniel-Hughes Pdf

This book examines the ways in which religious communities experimentally engage the world and function as fallible inquisitive agents, despite frequent protests to the contrary. Using the philosophy of inquiry and semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce, it develops unique naturalist conceptions of religious meaning and ultimate orientation while also arguing for a reappraisal of the ways in which the world’s venerable religious traditions enable novel forms of communal inquiry into what Peirce termed “vital matters.” Pragmatic inquiry, it argues, is a ubiquitous and continuous phenomenon. Thus, religious participation, though cautiously conservative in many ways, is best understood as a variety of inhabited experimentation. Religious communities embody historically mediated hypotheses about how best to engage the world and curate networks of semiotic resources for rendering those engagements meaningful. Religions best fulfill their inquisitive function when they both deploy and reform their sign systems as they learn better to engage reality.

Author : Robert Cummings Neville
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438477442

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Metaphysics of Goodness by Robert Cummings Neville Pdf

In Metaphysics of Goodness, Robert Cummings Neville extends Alfred North Whitehead's project of cultural studies, which was based on a new metaphysics that Whitehead developed in Adventures of Ideas. Neville's focus is value or goodness in many modes. The metaphysics treated in this book derive from the Platonic and Confucian traditions, with significant modifications of Whitehead, Peirce, Dewey, Confucius, Xunzi, and Zhou Dunyi. Part one develops a theory of form based on a metaphysics of harmony. Part two elaborates a theory of art based on a metaphysics of beauty. Part three sketches a theory of personhood based on a metaphysics of obligation. Part four discusses civilization in a systematic way based on a metaphysics of flourishing. Throughout the book, Neville elaborates a theory of interpretation that is inspired by Peirce, Dewey, and Xunzi but is not limited to their ideas. While the reasoning of the book is concise, it employs methodologies from many kinds of philosophy, art criticism, ethics, and cultural studies, and sees philosophy as needing to learn from all these disciplines.

Author : Jason Cronbach Van Boom,Thomas-Andreas Põder
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110694949

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Sign, Method and the Sacred by Jason Cronbach Van Boom,Thomas-Andreas Põder Pdf

To what extent can semiotics illuminate key problems in religious studies, given the centrality of symbols, language, and other modes of signification in religion and theology? The volume explores semiotic methodologies for the study of religion, with an emphasis on their critical and creative reconfigurations. The contributors come from different specialties, such as cognitive science, ethnography, linguistics, communication studies, art studies, religious studies, philosophy of religion, and theology. Part One consists of chapters focusing on theoretical perspectives. Part two focuses on applications in texts and case studies while still considering methodological issues. Many specific traditions and perspectives are taken up, such as C. S. Peirce, A. J. Greimas and the Paris School, Juri Lotman’s semiotics of culture, Bruno Latour and material semiotics, linguistic anthropology, social semiotics, cognitive semiotics, embodied and enactive perspectives on language and mind, semiotics of the image and iconicity, multimodality, intertextuality, and semiotics of colors. The book provides readers with a succinct overview of how contemporary semiotics can be useful in understanding a broad array of topics in the study of religion.

Author : Randall Reed,G. Michael Zbaraschuk
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498242431

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The Emerging Church, Millennials, and Religion: Volume 1 by Randall Reed,G. Michael Zbaraschuk Pdf

The landscape of American religion is changing dramatically, Millennials are dropping out of church, and new experimental types of Christianity such as the Emerging Church are coming to the fore. But what is the future of religion in America, and what role will Millennials play in that? The results of three years of scholarly inquiry, this collection of essays looks at the Emerging Church and Millennial religious responses and seeks to define and explore both phenomena, always on the lookout for their intersection. Bringing together a diverse collection of scholars in theology, sociology, history and comparative religion, this book highlights the importance of both the Emerging Church and the Millennial generation's future for religion.

Author : Walter B. Gulick,Gary Slater
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438478579

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American Aesthetics by Walter B. Gulick,Gary Slater Pdf

Although there are distinctly American artists--Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Grandma Moses, Thomas Hart Benton, and Andy Warhol, for example--very little attention has been devoted to formulating any distinctively American characteristics of aesthetic judgment and practice. This volume takes a step in this direction, presenting an introductory essay on the possibility of such a distinctly American tradition, and a collection of essays exploring particular examples from a variety of angles. Some of the essays in this collection extend pragmatist and process insights about the important place aesthetics has in molding and assessing experience. Other essays examine the place of American aesthetics in relation to such particular forms of art as painting, literature, music, and film. Three essays attend to the aesthetic aspects of a flourishing life. In each of the essays, American aesthetics is understood to arise out of deeply felt personal, historical, and cultural backgrounds. Consequently, not only are such relatively abstract notions as harmony, fit, elegance, proportion, and the like involved in aesthetic judgment, but also religious, political, and social factors become embroiled in aesthetic discernment. Thus the ongoing pattern of American aesthetics is shown to be distinguishable from such other varieties of aesthetic thought as analytic aesthetics, New Criticism, and postmodern approaches to aesthetics.

Author : Rory Misiewicz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978710030

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The Analogy of Signs by Rory Misiewicz Pdf

The longstanding debate over how God-talk is intelligible gravitates around how we should understand the putative answer, “by analogy.” For some contemporary Christian theologians, analogy involves an ontological claim about creaturely and divine being (i.e., an analogy of being). For others, it involves a semantic or syntactical structure that legitimates the linguistic performances associated with analogy (i.e., a grammatical analogy). Still others appeal to faith in God’s self-disclosure in Jesus Christ (i.e., an analogy of faith). Rory Misiewicz argues that all of these approaches fall flat in their explanatory efforts. He draws upon the work of American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce to rethink the relation between God and human beings. He argues that Christian theologians may view that relation as being established by an “analogy of signs”: both God and human beings are univocally involved in semiosis, or sign-process, and the confirmation of God’s semiotic identity is found in the revelation of God in the person of Jesus, the incarnate Son of God. Therefore, ordinary analogical language is intelligible, for divine signs are commensurate with human signs.

Author : Mark Randall James,Randi Rashkover
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725261686

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Signs of Salvation by Mark Randall James,Randi Rashkover Pdf

Peter Ochs is one of today’s most influential Jewish philosophers and the cofounder of the practice of Scriptural Reasoning. Signs of Salvation: A Festschrift for Peter Ochs celebrates Ochs’ deep and wide-ranging contributions to theology, philosophy, interreligious dialogue, and conflict resolution studies. The volume offers a rich and rigorous introduction to Peter Ochs’ extensive body of work and his philosophy of scriptural pragmatism. In addition, it presents engaging essays by Ochs’ colleagues, friends, and former students, who reflect on the impact his work has had on their academic field and their own thought. Contributors raise questions about the task of philosophy and the nature of reasoning, the appropriate function and limits of the Western academy, the practice of Scriptural Reasoning and its significance for interreligious dialogue, and the future of modern theology. With contributions from: Robert Gibbs Nicholas Adams Daniel Weiss Jim Fodor Jacob Goodson Emily Filler Rumi Ahmed Basit Koshul Nauman Faizi Rachel Muers Eliot Wolfson Steven Kepnes Shaul Magid Mike Higton Tom Greggs Susannah Ticciati Stanley Hauerwas

Author : Charles Sanders Peirce
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547025122

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A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God by Charles Sanders Peirce Pdf

This book is the sole theological essay written by the logician, scientist, and philosopher C. S. Peirce. It was published in 1908 and has drawn much attention from philosophers, clergy, and scientists since that time.

Author : Don D. Roberts
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110226225

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The Existential Graphs of Charles S. Peirce by Don D. Roberts Pdf

Peirce's contemporaries had the advantage of some popular lectures on the graphs (the Lowell Lectures of 1903, principally), but his graphical publications were few and not easy to understand, as he admitted himself.

Author : T. L. Short
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139461917

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Peirce's Theory of Signs by T. L. Short Pdf

In this book, T. L. Short corrects widespread misconceptions of Peirce's theory of signs and demonstrates its relevance to contemporary analytic philosophy of language, mind and science. Peirce's theory of mind, naturalistic but nonreductive, bears on debates of Fodor and Millikan, among others. His theory of inquiry avoids foundationalism and subjectivism, while his account of reference anticipated views of Kripke and Putnam. Peirce's realism falls between 'internal' and 'metaphysical' realism and is more satisfactory than either. His pragmatism is not verificationism; rather, it identifies meaning with potential growth of knowledge. Short distinguishes Peirce's mature theory of signs from his better-known but paradoxical early theory. He develops the mature theory systematically on the basis of Peirce's phenomenological categories and concept of final causation. The latter is distinguished from recent and similar views, such as Brandon's, and is shown to be grounded in forms of explanation adopted in modern science.