Religious Philosophy as Multidisciplinary Comparative Inquiry: Envisioning a Future for the Philosophy of Religion

Front Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Religious Philosophy as a Form of Philosophy......Page 22
Religious Philosophy as a Form of Religious Studies......Page 34
Religious Philosophy as a Form of Theology......Page 47
Tasks of Religious Philosophy......Page 56
Contexts of Religious Philosophy......Page 66
Traditions of Religious Philosophy......Page 71
The Successes and Failures of Modern Epistemology......Page 78
The Successes and Failures of Postmodern Criticism......Page 84
Beyond Modernity and Postmodernity......Page 93
Postmodernism and Apophasis in Religious Philosophy......Page 100
4. Religious Philosophy and Multidisciplinarity......Page 106
The Importance of Multidisciplinarity in Religious Philosophy......Page 107
Case Studies on Multidisciplinarity......Page 116
Incommensurability as Invitation......Page 135
5. Religious Philosophy and Comparison......Page 146
What is Comparison?......Page 147
Comparing Approaches to Comparative Philosophy......Page 155
Comparison and Religious Philosophy......Page 177
6. A Pragmatic Theory of Inquiry......Page 188
Problem Solving and Inquiry......Page 189
The Biological and Sociological Basis of Inquiry......Page 195
Controversial Features of the Pragmatic Theory of Inquiry......Page 217
Religious Dimensions of Inquiry......Page 228
Religious Philosophy and the Demarcation Problem......Page 235
Case Study: Religious Philosophy, Religion, and Secularism......Page 258
8. Traditions in Transformation......Page 268
The Ontotheological Tradition......Page 269
The Cosmotheological Tradition......Page 276
The Physicotheological Tradition......Page 282
The Psychotheological Tradition......Page 294
The Axiotheological Tradition......Page 304
The Mysticotheological Tradition......Page 315
Status Report......Page 325
Afterword: Religious Philosophy in the Modern University......Page 328
Summary of the Deconstructive Case in Support of Religious Philosophy......Page 329
Summary of the Constructive Case in Support of Religious Philosophy......Page 332
Religious Philosophy and the Diversity of Higher Education......Page 334
Conclusion......Page 338
Notes for Chapter 1......Page 340
Notes for Chapter 2......Page 341
Notes for Chapter 4......Page 342
Notes for Chapter 5......Page 347
Notes for Chapter 6......Page 350
Notes for Chapter 7......Page 353
Notes for Chapter 8......Page 354
Notes for Afterword......Page 357
Bibliography......Page 358
Index......Page 378
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