Research Catalog

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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Details

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