03325cam a22002894a 4500 14465370 OSt 20110916160359.0 060724s2006 enk b 001 0 eng 2006024403 9780567025234 (hardcover) 0567025233 (hardcover) DLC DLC DLC BV3 .M44 2006 230.01 22 McGaughey, Douglas R., 1947- 10201 Religion before dogma : groundwork in practical theology / Douglas R. McGaughey. London ; New York : T & T Clark, c2006. x, 262 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-257) and indexes. Practical theology -- Beyond mathematics, commodification, technical, and information -- Skepticism and its spectrum -- Conservative exploitation of vulgar skepticism -- Beyond pragmatic to practical theology -- Beyond negations to affirmations -- Why is practical theology relational theology? -- The problem with experience -- Mind and body -- On wholes and limits -- Identity -- Distinguishing between the subjective and the objective : on that which cannot be other than what it is -- Distinguishing the subjective from the objective : on that which can be other than the way it appears -- From skepticism to relational (i.e., critical) idealism -- Situations: emotions, appetites, and more -- The problem of materialism: necessity and the non-spatial -- Numbers and particulars -- Not by abstraction alone but by relational symbolic systems -- No metaphysical reductionism : constitutive and regulative ideas inseparable from a world of particulars -- On the "necessities" of practical theology -- Kant's "copernican revolution" -- Law and gospel: law after bultmann -- Spirit, truth, and power -- Spirit and relationality -- Spirit -- On justice and wisdom -- On truth -- The correspondence theory of truth -- Truth as clarity and distinctness -- Truth as manifestation -- Possibility and relational justice -- Power -- After critique: the human vocation -- The project of practical theology -- Analytic and synthetic judgments -- Determining and reflecting judgments -- On the logical functioning of the understanding -- Categories of the understanding -- On the interrelatedness of the sensible and the supersensible -- On aesthetic judgment -- On the hierarchy of the supersensible -- On humanity's moral vocation -- On the sublime -- A platonic kant -- Faith and history -- Self-respect and self-esteem -- On the "must" beliefs of practical theology -- Not "can" but "must" belief -- On personal experience -- On the limits to knowledge -- What must we believe? -- Inseparability from the world -- Perception is limited -- Action reminds us that there is more to experience than the empirical -- Relational symbolic systems -- Symbol and method -- Actuality and temporality -- Deontology -- Derivation of doctrinal belief systems. Theology, Practical. 10202 Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0618/2006024403.html 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 52681 52655 0 0 lcc 0 0 GEN CPL CPL GEN 2011-09-16 Donation 40.00 1 BV 3.M44 2006 R39753P3232 2026-05-14 12:21:25 2024-12-05 1 2011-09-16 BK