On the Scope and Truth of Theology

Theology as Symbolic Engagement

By: Robert Cummings Neville

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This is the first volume of Robert Cumming Neville's magnum opus, Theology as Symbolic Engagement. Neville is the premier American systematic theologian of our time. His work is profoundly influenced by Paul Tillich, Friedrich Schleiermacher, and the American pragmatists John Dewey and Charles Sanders Pierce. From Tillich he takes the notion of religion, art, and morality as symbol, and the notion that religion is the substance of culture and culture the form of religion. Thus, theology is symbolic engagement with cultural forms, and Neville explores the ways that such engagement occurs among various religious traditions.

One of the most important tasks in theology is to devise ways of testing, correcting, or affirming claims that we had been unable to question before. This book will argue that "system" in theology is not merely correlating assertions, but rather building perspectives from which we can render the various parts of theology vulnerable for assessment.

In fact, one of the unique features of this book is its engagement with other religions. Such dialogue has been a feature of Neville's work from the beginning. Theology as Symbolic Engagement breaks the boundaries of systematic theology and moves away from the static character that characterizes such enterprises from Barth onward. Instead, Neville's book showcases the dynamic character of all theology.

The hallmark of this entire project is its effort to show theology to be hypothetical and to make it vulnerable to correction.

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Preface	p. ix
Approaches to Theology	p. 1
Ultimacy	p. 5
"Theology" in History	p. 7
Revelation and Religious Identity	p. 13
Theology's Publics	p. 20
Theology as Symbolic Engagement	p. 29
Engagement	p. 31
Truth	p. 35
Modes of Symbolic Engagement	p. 40
Theological Truth and Context	p. 49
Theological Imagination	p. 54
Imagination as Synthesis	p. 54
World Definition: Finite/Infinite Contrasts: Ultimacy	p. 60
Invention, Convention, and Truth	p. 67
Founding Religious Witness: Core Texts and Motifs	p. 71
Theological Assertion	p. 77
Interpretation as Engagement	p. 77
Meanings	p. 82
Reference	p. 88
Context and Critical Assertion	p. 94
Components for Theological System	p. 101
Religion	p. 102
Science	p. 109
Art	p. 114
Practical Normative Disciplines	p. 123
Dialectical Systematic Theology	p. 127
System and Dialectic: The Making of Cases	p. 128
Stability and Commensurability of Discourse	p. 136
Metaphysics	p. 142
Levels of Abstraction	p. 151
Practical Theology in Religious Life	p. 156
Practical Reason and Ritual	p. 156
Ritual and the Sacred Canopy	p. 166
Theology and Crisis	p. 170
Breaking on the Infinite	p. 175
Truth, Scope, Publics, Tests	p. 181
Symbolic Engagement	p. 182
The Scope of Learning and Vulnerability	p. 188
Creating Publics of Appropriate Scope	p. 194
By Their Fruits	p. 202
Bibliography	p. 205
Index	p. 225
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