Religion and reality : an exploration of contemporary metaphysical systems, theologies, and religious pluralism /
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| Author / Creator: | Iammarino, Darren. |
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| Imprint: | Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, [2013] ©2013 |
| Description: | xx, 280 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11290008 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Five Possible Global Metaphysical Systems for the Twenty-First Century
- 1. Cobb and GriffinÆs Conception of Three Religious Ultimates
- Whitehead and Multiple Ultimates
- The Three Complementary Religious Ultimates
- Enriching and Purifying the Depths
- Summary
- 2. Four Additional Contenders for a Twenty-First-Century Global Metaphysical System
- The Perennial Philosophy or the Traditionalist School
- Emanationism
- Classical Theism
- Emergent Theism
- Summary
- Part II. Cosmosyntheism: A New Option
- 3. The Five Mutually Grounding Ultimates and Cosmosyntheism's Nine Advancements
- The Nine Advancements
- The Five Mutually Grounding or Presupposing Ultimates
- Definitions of the Five Ultimates
- How They Ground One Another
- Reality: A Complex Adaptive System?
- Cosmosyntheism and Creation
- Summary
- 4. The Forms
- Why the Forms?
- Plato and the Theory of the Forms
- Whitehead's Eternal Objects
- Cosmosyntheism's Expanding Set of Forms
- Why Not Just the Forms?
- Summary
- 5. The Dipolar Deity
- Why a God?
- Whitehead's Dipolar Process Theism
- Hartshorne and Griffin's Dipolar God as a Serially Ordered Society of Actual Occasions
- The God of Cosmosyntheism
- Summary
- 6. A World/Cosmos
- Creation out of Chaos
- Aristotle and Prime Matter
- A World of Strings
- Cosmosyntheism's Primordial World
- Why Not Just a World/Cosmos?
- Summary
- 7. Creativity/Eros
- Why Creativity?
- Creativity, What It Is and What It Isn't
- Creativity/Eros in Cosmosyntheism
- Why Not lust Creativity?
- Summary
- 8. The Plane of Mutual Immanence
- Why a Receptacle or Plane of Mutual Immanence?
- Plato's Timaeus
- The Receptacle in Whitehead's Adventures of Ideas
- The Plane of Mutual Immanence in Cosmosyntheism
- Why Not Just the Receptacle?
- Summary
- 9. The Logical Inconsistencies of All Other Possible Combinations
- The Problems
- The Possible Combinations
- Summary
- Part III. Cosmosyntheism vs. the Five Rival Contenders: Assessing the Strengths and Weaknesses of each System
- 10. Free Will
- The Free Will Problem
- Free Will and the Perennial Philosophy
- Free Will and Emanation Theories
- Free Will and Classical Theism
- Free Will and Emergent Theism
- Cobb and Griffin on Free Will
- Cosmosyntheism and Free Will
- Summary
- 11. Conflicting Religious Truth Claims Part 1
- The Problem of Conflicting Religious Truth Claims
- The Perennial Philosophy and Conflicting Religious Truth Claims
- Emanation and the Problem of Conflicting Religious Truth Claims
- Classical Theism and the Problem of Conflicting Religious Truth Claims
- Emergent Theism and the Problem of Conflicting Religious Truth Claims
- Cobb/Griffin and the Problem of Conflicting Religious Truth Claims
- Summary
- 12. Conflicting Religious Truth Claims Part 2
- The Forms
- Cosmosyntheism and the Forms in Other Religions God
- Cosmosyntheism and Other Theisms A Cosmos
- Cosmosyntheism and the Traditions that Focus on a Cosmos Creativity
- Cosmosyntheism and the Religions that Focus on Creativity Receptacle
- Sikhism and the Akashic Records
- Cosmosyntheism and the Religions that Focus on the Receptacle
- Summary
- 13. The Problem of Evil
- The Problem
- The Perennial Philosophy and the Problem of Evil
- Emanation and the Problem of Evil
- Classical Theism and the Problem of Evil
- Emergent Theism and the Problem of Evil
- Griffin on the Problem of Evil
- Cosmosyntheism and the Problem of Evil
- Summary
- Part IV. Implications and Applications of Cosmosyntheism
- 14. Ethics
- The Cosmic Aim of Life
- The Social Aim of Life
- The Individual Aim of Life
- Summary
- Appendix: Cosmosyntheism and Applied or Practical Religion
- Final Meditations
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
