Phenomenology of the Truth Proper to Religion

Edited by Daniel Guerriere

Subjects: Philosophy Of Religion
Series: SUNY series in Philosophy
Paperback : 9780791401712, 323 pages, May 1990
Hardcover : 9780791401705, 323 pages, July 1990

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Table of contents

Preface

Introduction

I. EXISTENTIAL

1. Truth in Religion and Truth of Religion
Louis Dupre

2. Religious Truth and Scientific Truth
Philip Clayton

3. Truth and the Wisdom of Enduring
Edward Farley

4. The Truth, the Nontruth, and the Untruth Proper to Religion
Daneil Guerriere

II. HERMENEUTIC

5. Phenomenologies and Religious Truth
Merold Westphal

6. Ideology and Religion: A Hermeneutic Conflict
Richard Kearney

7. Radical Hermeneutics and Religious Truth: The Case of Sheehan and Schillebeeckx
John D. Caputo

III. ETHICAL

8. The Face of Truth in Rosenzweig, Levinas, and Jewish Mysticism
Richard A. Cohen

IV. DECONSTRUCTIVE

9. Freud, Husserl, Derrida: An Experiment
Walter Lowe

V. TRANSCENDENTAL

10. Divine Truth in Husserl and Kant: Some Issues in Phenomenological Theology
James G. Hart

11. God as the Ideal: The All-of-Monads and the All-Consciousness
Steven W. Laycock

Notes

Contributors

Index

Description

The question is, what constitutes truth in religion? Represented here is the whole spectrum of phenomenology—transcendental, existential, hermeneutic, ethical, and deconstructive—presented by some of the most respected names in the philosophy of religion today: Louis Dupré, Merold Westphal, and Edward Farley. Here is also engagement with a wide variety of twentieth-century thinkers such as Husserl, Scheler, and Heidegger; Ricoeur, Gadamer, and Derrida; Freud, van der Leeuw, and Eliade; and Rosenzweig, Tillich, and Schillebeeks.

This volume provides unique sources for anyone interested in the philosophical, theological, or scientific study of religion.

Daniel Guerrière is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Long Beach.