American philosophers read scripture. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jacob L. Goodson.
• Editors: Goodson, Jacob L
• Contents: Acknowledgments ; ; Introduction ; ; Section 1. Reading Genesis and Job with American Philosophers ; ; 1. Ann W. Duncan & Jacob L. Goodson, “Immortal Eve”? Genesis 1-3 in Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth Century ; ; 2. Edward F. Mooney, “In Demonstration of the Spirit”: Henry Bugbee’s Meditations on the Book of Job ; ; Section 2. Reading the Prophets with American Philosophers ; ; 3. William J. Danaher Jr., “Fire Enfolding Itself”: Jonathan Edwards and the Merkabah ; ; 4. Willie Young, Gathering the Wild Fruits of Scripture: Henry David Thoreau’s Philosophical Interpretations of Scripture ; ; 5. Lawrence Ware, The Black Prophetic Tradition: Cornel West, Abraham Heschel, and the Biblical Prophets ; ; Section 3. Philosophical Interpretations of the Synoptic Gospels ; ; 6. Jacob L. Goodson, “Ye Shall Know Them By Their Fruits”: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Interpretation of Jesus’ Logical Rule ; ; 7. John R. Shook, Let the Philosophers Bury Their Own Dead: Matthew 8 and Luke 9 in John Dewey’s Philosophy ; ; Section 4. Moral Interpretations of the Synoptic Gospels ; ; 8. Ann W. Duncan, The Impossibility of Complacency: Scripture in the Life and Work of Jane Addams ; ; 9. Jacob L. Goodson, Secrecy and Suffering: The Sermon on the Mount in George Santayana’s The Idea of Christ ; ; 10. Eric Reitan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Scripture, and the Ethics of Love ; ; Section 5. Reading John’s Gospel and Epistles with American Philosophers ; ; 11. David O’Hara, Agapic Love as the Sole Principle of Logic: John’s Gospel, John’s Epistles, and C. S. Peirce’s Philosophy ; ; 12. William Elkins, What Is the Problem of Christianity? Echoes of John’s Theology in Josiah Royce’s Absolute Idealism ; ; Section 6. Reading 1 Corinthians with American Philosophers ; ; 13. Jacob L. Goodson and Quinlan C. Stein, William James on the Doctrine of Transubstantiation: American Transcendentalism vs. Roman Catholicism ; ; 14. Peter Dula, “Putting Away Childish Things”: Six Scenes of Instruction in Stanley Cavell’s Little Did I Know ; ; 15. Jacob L. Goodson, “And the Greatest of These Is Love”: Richard Rorty’s Turn to Scripture ; ; Section 7. On the Philosophical Interpretation of Traditionally Sacred Texts ; ; 16. Roger Ward, How Jonathan Edwards Reads the Christian Scriptures ; ; 17. Isra Yazicioglu, How C. S. Peirce’s Pragmatism Helps for Interpreting the Qur’an ; ; About the Contributors
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 220.601; Philosophy, American
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498537964
• Related ISBNs: 9781498537957
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