Conversion in American Philosophy: Exploring the Practice of TransformationFordham Univ Press, 2004 - 235 עמודים In this fresh, provocative account of the American philosophical tradition, Roger Ward explores the work of key thinkers through an innovative and counterintuitive lens: religious conversion. From Jonathan Edwards to Cornel West, Ward threads the history of American thought into an extended, multivalent encounter with the religious experience. Looking at Dewey, James, Peirce, Rorty, Corrington, and other thinkers, Ward demonstrates that religious themes have deeply influenced the development of American philosophy. This innovative reading of the American philosophical tradition will be welcomed not only by philosophers, but also by historians and other students of America's religious, intellectual, and cultural legacy. Conversion in American Philosophy: Exploring the Practice of Transformation is available from the publisher on an open-access basis. |
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absence action American philosophy Arminian aspect Augustine authority becomes belief C. S. Peirce challenge character Charles Sanders Peirce Christ Christian Christological claim Common Faith consciousness conversion Cornel West Corrington creative critical describes desire Dewey's discovered discovery Edwards says Edwards's emerges evangelical humiliation focus God's gospel gracious affections ground habit change heart holiness human hypothesis Ibid idea ideal individual inquiry intellectual interpretive community James James's Jesus John Dewey Jonathan Edwards kind limit living meaning metaphysical moral nature Neglected Argument Niebuhr notion object obligation orientation overcome Peirce Peirce's person philosophical platform possible practice pragmaticism pragmatism pragmatists principle problem produce prophetic reality realization reflection relation religion Religious Affections religious attitude religious conversion religious experience resistance reveals Richard Niebuhr Richard Rorty Rorty salvation semiotic sense social soul spiritual supernatural teleology theology thought tion tradition transformation truth ultimate understanding University Press West's
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עמוד 176 - Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
עמוד xxviii - It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it ? neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? but the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
עמוד 176 - But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him.
עמוד 96 - See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; in that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his...
עמוד 176 - When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples), he left Judasa, and departed again into Galilee.
עמוד 176 - Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.
עמוד 66 - Democracy as compared with other ways of life is the sole way of living which believes wholeheartedly in the process of experience as end and as means; as that which is capable of generating the science which is the sole dependable authority for the direction of further experience and which releases emotions, needs, and desires so as to call into being the things that have not existed in the past.
עמוד 199 - I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee ; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
עמוד 93 - When, however, we believe that a God is there, and that he is one of the claimants, the infinite perspective opens out. The scale of the symphony is incalculably prolonged. The more imperative ideals now begin to speak with an altogether new objectivity and significance, and to utter the penetrating, shattering, tragically challenging note of appeal. They ring out like the call of Victor Hugo's alpine eagle, " qui parle au precipice et que le gouffre entend," and the strenuous mood awakens at the...
עמוד xxvii - The capacity of the strenuous mood lies so deep down among our natural human possibilities that even if there were no metaphysical or traditional grounds for believing in a God, men would postulate one simply as a pretext for living hard, and getting out of the game of existence its keenest possibilities of zest.