Theosemiotic

Author : Michael L. Raposa
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823289532
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theosemiotic written by Michael L. Raposa and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Theosemiotic, Michael Raposa uses Charles Peirce’s semiotic theory to rethink certain issues in contemporary philosophical theology and the philosophy of religion. He first sketches a history that links Peirce’s thought to that of earlier figures (both within the tradition of American religious thought and beyond), as well as to other classical pragmatists and to later thinkers and developments. Drawing on Peirce’s ideas, Raposa develops a semiotic conception of persons/selves emphasizing the role that acts of attention play in shaping human inferences and perception. His central Peircean presuppositions are that all human experience takes the form of semiosis and that the universe is “perfused” with signs. Religious meaning emerges out of a process of continually reading and re-reading certain signs. Theology is explored here in its manifestations as inquiry, therapy, and praxis. By drawing on both Peirce’s logic of vagueness and his logic of relations, Raposa makes sense out of how we talk about God as personal, and also how we understand the character of genuine communities. An investigation of what Peirce meant by “musement” illuminates the nature and purpose of prayer. Theosemiotic is portrayed as a form of religious naturalism, broadly conceived. At the same time, the potential links between any philosophical theology conceived as theosemiotic and liberation theology are exposed.

Author : Gary Slater
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198753233
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book C.S. Peirce and the Nested Continua Model of Religious Interpretation written by Gary Slater and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study develops resources in the work of Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) for the purposes of contemporary philosophy. It contextualizes Peirce's prevailing influences and provides greater context in relation to the currents of nineteenth-century thought. Dr Gary Slater articulates 'a nested continua model' for theological interpretation, which is indebted to Peirce's creation of 'Existential Graphs', a system of diagrams designed to provide visual representation of the process of human reasoning. He investigates how the model can be applied by looking at recent debates in historiography. He deals respectively with Peter Ochs and Robert C. Neville as contemporary manifestations of Peircean philosophical theology. This work concludes with an assessment of the model's theological implications.

Author : Jason Cronbach Van Boom
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110694921
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sign, Method and the Sacred written by Jason Cronbach Van Boom and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what extent can semiotics illuminate key problems in religious studies, given the centrality of symbols, language, and other modes of signification in religion and theology? The volume explores semiotic methodologies for the study of religion, with an emphasis on their critical and creative reconfigurations. The contributors come from different specialties, such as cognitive science, ethnography, linguistics, communication studies, art studies, religious studies, philosophy of religion, and theology. Part One consists of chapters focusing on theoretical perspectives. Part two focuses on applications in texts and case studies while still considering methodological issues. Many specific traditions and perspectives are taken up, such as C. S. Peirce, A. J. Greimas and the Paris School, Juri Lotman’s semiotics of culture, Bruno Latour and material semiotics, linguistic anthropology, social semiotics, cognitive semiotics, embodied and enactive perspectives on language and mind, semiotics of the image and iconicity, multimodality, intertextuality, and semiotics of colors. The book provides readers with a succinct overview of how contemporary semiotics can be useful in understanding a broad array of topics in the study of religion.

Author : Mark Randall James
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725261685
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Signs of Salvation written by Mark Randall James and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Ochs is one of today’s most influential Jewish philosophers and the cofounder of the practice of Scriptural Reasoning. Signs of Salvation: A Festschrift for Peter Ochs celebrates Ochs’ deep and wide-ranging contributions to theology, philosophy, interreligious dialogue, and conflict resolution studies. The volume offers a rich and rigorous introduction to Peter Ochs’ extensive body of work and his philosophy of scriptural pragmatism. In addition, it presents engaging essays by Ochs’ colleagues, friends, and former students, who reflect on the impact his work has had on their academic field and their own thought. Contributors raise questions about the task of philosophy and the nature of reasoning, the appropriate function and limits of the Western academy, the practice of Scriptural Reasoning and its significance for interreligious dialogue, and the future of modern theology. With contributions from: Robert Gibbs Nicholas Adams Daniel Weiss Jim Fodor Jacob Goodson Emily Filler Rumi Ahmed Basit Koshul Nauman Faizi Rachel Muers Eliot Wolfson Steven Kepnes Shaul Magid Mike Higton Tom Greggs Susannah Ticciati Stanley Hauerwas

Author : Anette Ejsing
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630878669
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theology of Anticipation written by Anette Ejsing and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is hope an attitude of wishful thinking or is it a volitional appropriation of what is to come? What does it mean to believe in a divine promise, anticipating but not experiencing its fulfillment? Theology of Anticipation responds to these questions with a constructive study of C. S. Peirce's philosophy. It explores Peirce's strong but ambiguous links to the tradition of 19th century classical German philosophy and the unique way he resurrected this tradition's theoretical content in the American context. Then introducing Wolfhart Pannenberg's philosophical theology of anticipation in a discussion of Peirce's epistemological application of the theory of abduction, Anette Ejsing reads these two in light of each other, with the goal of proposing a Peircean theology of anticipation. With this proposal, she offers a new model for how both rational inquirers and believing theologians can take for real in the present what belongs permanently to the future. This model describes the human pursuit of cognitive as well as personal fulfillment (of understanding and meaning) as anchored in a promise of fulfillment, which makes it an expression of anticipatory hope. Considering Peirce's religious writings of systematic importance for his philosophy, Theology of Anticipation offers critical comments to two existing interpretations of Peirce's philosophy of religion: Michael L. Raposa's theosemiotic and Robert S. Corrington's Peircean theology of divine potentialities.

Author : John F. Desmond
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820325880
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walker Percy's Search for Community written by John F. Desmond and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this criticism of Percy, John F. Desmond traces the writer's enduring concerns with community. These concerns, Desmond argues, were grounded in the realism of such Scholastics as Aquinas and Duns Scotus.

Author : Cyril Orji
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725269198
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Semiotic Christology written by Cyril Orji and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details how semiotics furthers an understanding of the science of Christology. In the light of the trend towards evolutionary worldview, the book goes beyond description and critically engages the sign system of C. S. Peirce, which it sees as a conceptual tool and method for a better understanding of some of the basic issues in Christology.

Author : Hans Joas
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 082326758X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Varieties of Transcendence written by Hans Joas and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Varieties of Transcendence traces American pragmatist thought on religion and its relevance for theorizing religion today. The volume establishes pragmatist concepts of religious individualization as powerful alternatives to the more common secularization discourse. In stressing the importance of Josiah Royce’s work, it emphasizes religious individualism’s compatibility with community. At the same time, by covering all of the major classical pragmatist theories of religion, it shows their kinship and common focus on the interrelation between the challenges of contingency and the semiotic significance of transcendence.

Author : Semiotic Society of America. Meeting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semiotics written by Semiotic Society of America. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Semiotic Society of America. Meeting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semiotics 1992 written by Semiotic Society of America. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: I. Semiotics, Aesthetics, and Qualities of Consciousness; II. School of Paris: Theory of Emotions; III. Gender Consciousness; IV. Creativity; V. Peirce and Theology; VI. Semiotics and Clinical Communications; VII. Art Historical Semiotics and Visual Semiotics; VIII. Semiotics of Consciousness; IX. Conservation, Dissipation, and the Five Other Lively Sins; X. Politics and Moral Judgement; XI. Semiotics, Mathematics, and Logic; XII. Beyond Narrative. Contributors: Jackson Barry, Norma Procopiow, Beverly Seaton, Thomas F. Broden, Therese Budniakiewicz, Gila Safran-Naveh, Katherine Stephenson, Brooke Williams, Gary Shank, Deborah Smith-Shank, Ladelle McWhorter, Mark Bandas, Robert S. Corrington, Michael L. Raposa, Eleanor Donnelly, Martin Gossman, Dundea Krebs, Emily W. Salus, John Deely, David Lidov, David D. Olds, Myrdene Anderson, Paul Bouissac, Virgil L. Lokke, Mary Ann O'Donnell, Stacy J. Rhoads, Phyllis Passariello, Ralph A. Powell, Michael Roberts, Susan Brill, W. John Coletta, John K. Sheriff, C.W. Spinks, Bryan Dietrich, Sid Sondergard, and Terry Prewitt.