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The Tao and the daimon : segments of a religious inquiry

Title
The Tao and the daimon : segments of a religious inquiry / Robert C. Neville.
Author
Neville, Robert C.
Publication
Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1982.

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Book/TextUse in library BL51 .N444 1982Off-site

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Description
xv, 281 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Religion > Philosophy
  • Philosophical theology
  • Creation
  • creating (artistic activity)
  • creation (doctrinal concept)
  • Creation
  • Philosophical theology
  • Religion > Philosophy
  • Glaubenserfahrung
  • Religionsphilosophie
  • Schöpfung
  • Theologie
  • Religions
  • Faith and reason
  • Tao
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter one: Accountability in theology -- I. Theology -- II. Accountability and inquiry -- III. Practical implications -- Chapter two: Authority and experience in religious ethics -- I. Decline of authority -- II. Ontology and cosmology in religion -- III. Cosmological ethics, ontological religion -- Chapter three: Philosophical theology : the case of the Holy Spirit -- I. The Holy Spirit as the Creator's presence -- II. God the Creator and Trinity -- III. The holy spirit as a systematic speculative problem -- IV. God and the Holy Spirit in public inquiry -- Chapter four: Creation and the Trinity -- I. The metaphysics of Creation -- II. Trinitarian persons -- III. Economy and immanence -- IV. Begetting and creating -- Chapter five: Can God create people and address them too? -- I. That God can -- II. How God might address -- III. The address and life in the Spirit -- Chapter six: The empirical cases of world religions -- I. The speculative hypothesis -- II. The Empirical task of theology -- III. Practical conclusions.
  • Chapter seven: The notion of creation in Chinese thought -- I. Creation Ex Nihilo -- II. Taoism -- III. Confucianism -- Chapter eight: Process and the neo-Confucian cosmos -- I. Manifesting the clear character -- II. Loving the people -- III. Abiding in the highest good -- IV. Investigation of things -- V. Harmony and creation -- Chapter nine: Buddhism and process philosophy -- I. Process -- II. Relationships and causation -- III. Unity and interpenetration -- IV. Creation -- Chapter ten: The Daimon and the Tao of faith -- I. Faith as preparation -- II. Faith as certainty -- III. Forsaking wrong attachments -- Chapter eleven: The Daimon and the Tao of practice -- I. Two levels of truth -- II. Two truths as a philosophic claim -- III. Concepts in the higher truth -- IV. Scholarship in practice -- Postscript -- I. The Daimon in the Tao -- II. Four Loci of the Tao -- III. Silence and the sufficient conditions.
ISBN
  • 0873956613
  • 9780873956611
  • 0873956621
  • 9780873956628
LCCN
82005888
OCLC
  • ocm08474345
  • 8474345
  • SCSB-57052
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library