Religion within the limits of history alone : pragmatic historicism and the future of theology / Demian Wheeler.
Material type: TextPublisher: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2020]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- 9781438479354
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- D16.9 .W54 2020
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 What Is Historicism? A Multileveled Definition -- History All the Way Down: Historicism as an Ontology and Cosmology -- Homo Historicus: Historicism as an Anthropology -- Rediscovering the Sociohistorical Method: Historicism as a Methodology -- Chapter 2 Historical Particularity and the Problem of Insularity: Pragmatic Historicism as a Bigger Historicism -- Contextual Particularism: Historicism's First Principle -- The Short Distance from the Particular to the Insular: Historicism and the Many Faces of Isolationism
Religious and Theological Historicism in a Postliberal Key: Ghettoized, Confessional, and Mono-Humanistic -- Historicity without Insularity: Prospects for a Bigger Historicism -- The Diversity, Porousness, and Multitraditionedness of Cultural and Religious Histories: Toward a Dynamic Historicism -- The Breadth, Depth, and Interconnectedness of Human and Natural Histories: Toward a Holistic Historicism -- Chapter 3 Particularist Mutualism: Toward a Pragmatic Historicist Theology of Religions
The Historicism of Ernst Troeltsch: The Religionsgeschichtliche Schule and the De-absolutizing of Christianity -- Pragmatic Historicism and the Regnant Theologies of Religions: Toward a Particularist Mutualism -- Beyond Exclusivism and Inclusivism: Pragmatic Historicism as a Type of Religious Pluralism -- Pluralism without Perennialism: Pragmatic Historicism as Particularist Mutualism -- What the Religions Have in Common: Historicity and Nature as the Ground of Mutuality -- A Lingering Question: Is Pluralism a Western Imposition and Covert Exclusivism?
Chapter 4 After Incommensurability: Pragmatic Historicism as an Impetus for Meaningful Interreligious Engagement -- Shared Limits, Emergent Truths: The Goad and Goal of Interreligious Dialogue -- Comparative Theology in a Pragmatic Historicist Perspective: How a Particularist Mutualism Facilitates Deep Learning across Religious Borders -- Hybrid Histories, Porous Particularities: From Multitraditionedness to Multiple Religious Belonging -- Naturalism, Empiricism, Pragmatism: Pragmatic Historicist Pillars for the Ethical Bridge -- The First Pillar: (Religious) Naturalism
The Second Pillar: (Radical) Empiricism -- The Third Pillar: (Criteriological) Pragmatism -- Chapter 5 Beyond Amnesia and Nostalgia: Pragmatic Historicism and the Authority of the Past -- Give the Historical Method an Inch and It Will Take a Mile: The Historicizing, Humanizing, and Desupernaturalizing of Religious Traditions -- Givenness, Agency, and the Flux of Historical Process: Why Religions Lack Essences -- From Antisupernaturalism and Antiessentialism to Antiauthoritarianism: Rethinking the Normativity of the Past
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