The Tao and the Daimon : segments of a religious inquiry.
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TextPublication details: Albany : State of University of New York Press, c1982.Description: xv, 281 p.; 23 cmSubject(s): LOC classification: - BL 51 .N48
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| BOOKS | Saint Andrew's Theological Seminary Mosher Library | BL 51 .N48 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 29806 |
Contents:
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.
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