
Rorty and the Religious
Christian Engagements with a Secular Philosopher
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 14. August 2012
248 pages
978-1-62189-414-8 (ISBN)
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Prior to his death in 2007, the self-described secular philosopher Richard Rorty began to modify his previous position concerning religion. Moving from "atheism" to "anti-clericalism," Rorty challenges the metaphysical assumptions that lend justification to abuses of power in the name of religion. Instead of dismissing and ignoring Rorty's challenge, the essays in this volume seek to enter into meaningful conversation with Rorty's thought and engage his criticisms in a constructive and serious way. In so doing, one finds promising nuggets within Rorty's thought for addressing particular questions within Christianity. The essays in this volume offer charitable yet fully confessional engagements with an impressive secular thinker.
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English
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Eugene
United States
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978-1-62189-414-8 (9781621894148)
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Jacob L. Goodson (PhD, University of Virginia) is Visiting Professor of Religious Ethics in the Department of Religious Studies at the College of William & Mary. He has published scholarly essays in The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy and Contemporary Pragmatism.
Brad Elliott Stone is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the University Honors Program at Loyola Marymount University. He has published several essays and book chapters in pragmatism, continental philosophy, and Spanish philosophy.
Brad Elliott Stone is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the University Honors Program at Loyola Marymount University. He has published several essays and book chapters in pragmatism, continental philosophy, and Spanish philosophy.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part 1: Reflections in Rorty's Mirrors
- Chapter 1: The Priority of Democracy
- Chapter 2: Therapy to Apocalypse
- Chapter 3: Can (Analytic) Philosophers Tell Theologians the Truth?
- Chapter 4: For and Against Richard Rorty
- Part 2: Moral Dispositions and Religious Belief
- Chapter 5: What the Apostles Will Let Us Get Away with Saying
- Chapter 6: Pragmatic Charity
- Chapter 7: Contingency, Irony, and Vulnerability
- Part 3: The Philosophy and Theology of Social Hope
- Chapter 8: Rorty's Religion
- Chapter 9: Can There Be Hope without Prophecy?
- Chapter 10: The Difficulty of Imagining Other Persons, Reimagined
- Afterword
- Bibliography
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