| Affirming God as Panentheistic and Embodied |
2015 |
1412 |
In an anthology on panentheism, Keith Ward assesses the appropriateness ofthe metaphor of embodiment for God, as well as the viability of the concept ofpanentheism itself, as he considers the theologies of Ramanuja, Hegel, and processthought. Ward fr... |
| Curing Dualistic, Disembodied Patterns of Thinking in the Academy |
2018 |
778 |
This essay develops aspects and implications of Poteat’s critique of the Enlightenment’s critical paradigm and development of post-critical thinking in dialogue with Pascal in his dissertation and four post-critical thinkers who figured prominently i... |
| Dealing with Religious Relativism in the Classroom |
1998 |
3656 |
Religious relativism often manifests itself in student essays and discussion
in religious studies classes. This article sets forth issues and methods conducive to
engendering critical awareness of the religious relativism endemic to contemporary ... |
| Discerning the Spirits of Modernity and Postmodernity |
2007 |
4528 |
I characterize controlling pictures or assumptions and concomitants of first modernity and then postmodernity. In brief, these assumptions are the possibility of absolute transcendence of one’s body, language, and culture versus the inescapability o... |
| Humanity and Divinity as Radically Embodied |
2006 |
1820 |
Pursuant to the Philosophical and Theological Foundations of the Science and Religion Dialogue, this essay will develop an anthropological theory I call "radical embodiment," a biologically informed theory of human nature, rationality, and meaning. ... |
| The Mystical Formation of Paul Tillich |
2006 |
6015 |
This article takes up the biographical and philosophical task of examining how Tillich’s life experiences encouraged him to valorize mysticism and to construe the mystical and its implications in a distinctive manner. These experiences tend to fall ... |
| Negotiating the Nature of Mystical Experience, Guided by James and Tillich |
2007 |
4571 |
The nature of mystical experience has been hotly debated. Essentialists divide into two camps: 1) immediate identity beyond any subject-object structure 2) the mystical object maintaining some distinctness at the point of contact. Paul Tillich’s mys... |
| Negotiating the Nature of Mystical Experience, Guided by James and Tillich |
2010 |
1052 |
The nature of mystical experience has been hotly debated. Essentialistsdivide into two camps: 1) immediate identity beyond any subject-object structure 2)the mystical object maintaining some distinctness at the point of contact. PaulTillich’s mystica... |
| Negotiating the Nature of Mystical Experience, Guided by James and Tillich |
2010 |
813 |
The nature of mystical experience has been hotly debated. Essentialistsdivide into two camps: 1) immediate identity beyond any subject-object structure 2)the mystical object maintaining some distinctness at the point of contact. PaulTillich’s mystica... |
| Panentheism |
2003 |
10909 |
Defines “panentheism” in relation to divine immanence, transcendence, and all-inclusiveness, while noting distinctions between God as including whole and creatures as included parts, both in terms of attributes and mutual freedom. Panentheism’s affir... |
| Panentheism in Hartshorne and Tillich |
1995 |
10012 |
This work in philosophical theology argues that the concept of panentheism (literally, “all [is] in God”) is crucial for understanding Tillich’s doctrine of God, as it painstakingly explicates relevant Tillichian expressions, including his famous cla... |
| Polarities in Tillich’s Thought on Revelation in the World Religions |
2000 |
4731 |
This article explores the polarity in Tillich’s thought of the finality of divine revelation in Jesus Christ versus the reality of the revelation of the ultimate in every major world religion. In turn Tillich’s understanding of the polarity of absolu... |
| The Postmodern Spirit and the Status of God |
1994 |
5089 |
The postmodern spirit has challenged modern standards of truth and selfhood. This paper overviews possible responses to this postmodern spirit regarding the concept of God (including rejection of any such concept). It argues that a fairly traditional... |
| Rebalancing the Poles in Mark C. Taylor’s (A)Theology. |
2013 |
1000 |
Mark C. Taylor’s After God offers resources for constructive theology, or (a)theology, asit develops an ontology of complexity. Taylor posits two poles pertaining to self-organizingwholes: (1) that of the formation of structures and (2) that of desta... |
| A Response to David Rutledge |
2010 |
86 |
This appreciative response to David Rutledge’s review of my book, Radical Embodiment, deals with the nature of categorization/generalization with respect to and in light of postmodernism, with the issue of the articulation of tacit knowledge, with M... |
| St. Augustine and the Goodness of Creaturely Existence |
1978 |
5163 |
Augustine's life and writings can be viewed as a struggle between denying and affirming bodily existence in time. Related to this is the question of how created goods are to be appreciated and valued in relation to enjoying and loving God. Stages in ... |
| Teaching Two Classics in Religion/Theology and Culture |
2013 |
314 |
I regularly teach undergraduates about two ofPaul Tillich’s most accessible works: The Courageto Be and Theology of Culture. The former serves asone of three primary source texts in the course,“Modern Religious Thought,” while the latter is oneof two... |
| Tillich’s ‘God above God’ after Mark Taylor’s After God |
2010 |
314 |
In his book After God, Mark C. Taylor has continuedto move beyond his deconstructive phase witha creative theological and metaphysical effort centeringon complex systems. While judging that traditionalconcepts of God no longer speak to our age,Taylor... |
| Unpacking the Tacit |
2015 |
102 |
In Understanding the Tacit, Stephen Turner contends that 1) neo-Kantian frameworks,understood as identical (tacit) possessions collectively shared, do not exist and 2) incommunicating with a person from another perspective, a speaker is not making ex... |
| Updating Tillich on Religion and Art |
2011 |
243 |
Paul Tillich wrote much about art and religioussymbolism and experience. Despite the diversity of these writings, one can discern a positing of three basic artistic styles: idealism, naturalism, and expressionism—the latter divided into a negative va... |
| The Varieties of Mystical Experience: Paul Tillich and William James |
2006 |
4182 |
Paul Tillich and William James both offer rich resources for thinking about mysticism, religious faith, the nature of the object of religious faith, and the ultimate meaningfulness of life. While there are interesting similarities in their efforts, b... |
| The Wildness of Creation: An Interpretation of the Voice from the Whirlwind in Job |
2016 |
861 |
The point of this research paper is to give insight on the idea that hip exercises can help with knee pain from osteoarthritis. In this research paper, I will be looking at other articles. I will not be doing my own personal experiment. Multiple arti... |