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This is the first volume of Robert Cumming Neville's magnum opus, Theology as Symbolic Engagement. Neville is the premier American systematic theologian of our time. His work is profoundly influenced by Paul Tillich, Friedrich Schleiermacher, and the American pragmatists John Dewey and Charles Sanders Pierce. From Tillich he takes the notion of religion, art, and morality as symbol, and the notion that religion is the substance of culture and culture the form of religion. Thus, theology is symbolic engagement with cultural forms, and Neville explores the ways that such engagement occurs among various religious traditions. One of the most important tasks in theology is to devise ways of testing, correcting, or affirming claims that we had been unable to question before. This book will argue that "system" in theology is not merely correlating assertions, but rather building perspectives from which we can render the various parts of theology vulnerable for assessment. In fact, one of the unique features of this book is its engagement with other religions. Such dialogue has been a feature of Neville's work from the beginning.
Theology as Symbolic Engagement breaks the boundaries of systematic theology and moves away from the static character that characterizes such enterprises from Barth onward. Instead, Neville's book showcases the dynamic character of all theology. The hallmark of this entire project is its effort to show theology to be hypothetical and to make it vulnerable to correction.
Contents
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Approaches
to Theology
Ultimacy
"Theology" in History
Revelation and Religious
Identity
Theology's Publics
Chapter 2. Theology
as Symbolic Engagement
Engagement
Truth
Modes of Symbolic
Engagement
Theological Truth and
Context
Chapter 3. Theological
Imagination
Imagination as Synthesis
World Definition:
Finite/Infinite Contrasts: Ultimacy
Invention,
Convention, and Truth
Founding Religious Witness: Core
Texts and Motifs
Chapter 4. Theological
Assertion
Interpretation as
Engagement
Meanings
Reference
Context
and Critical Assertion
Chapter 5. Components
for Theological System
Religion
Science
Art
Practical Normative
Disciplines
Chapter 6. Dialectical
Systematic Theology
System and Dialectic: The Making
of Cases
Stability and
Commensurability of Discourse
Metaphysics
Levels of Abstraction
Chapter 7. Practical
Theology and Truth
Practical Reason and Ritual
Ritual and the Sacred
Canopy
Theology and Crisis
Breaking on the infinite
Chapter 8. Truth,
Scope, Publics, Tests
Symbolic Engagement
The Scope of Learning and
Vulnerability
Creating Publics of Appropriate
Scope
By Their Fruits
Bibliography
Index
