Symbols of Jesus: A Christology of Symbolic Engagement

Focusing on what makes Jesus important in Christianity, Robert Cummings Neville, a leading philosophical theologian, presents and illustrates a theory of religious symbols wherein God is directly engaged in symbolically shaped thinking and practice. Moreover, Christian symbolism is shown to be entirely compatible with a late-modern scientific world view. This major work may affect belief in Jesus, and will be of value to students, academics, clergy with theological training, and others grappling with the meaning and importance of religious symbols in our age.

Religion & Spirituality

Neville, Robert Cummings

Christian Books & Bibles

Cambridge University Press

Focusing on what makes Jesus important in Christianity, Robert Cummings Neville, a leading philosophical theologian, presents and illustrates a theory of religious symbols wherein God is directly engaged in symbolically shaped thinking and practice. Moreover, Christian symbolism is shown to be entirely compatible with a late-modern scientific world view. This major work may affect belief in Jesus, and will be of value to students, academics, clergy with theological training, and others grappling with the meaning and importance of religious symbols in our age.

This is the first volume of Robert Cumming Neville's magnum opus, Theology as Symbolic Engagement. Neville is the premier American systematic theologian of our time. His work is profoundly influenced by Paul Tillich, Friedrich Schleiermacher, and the American pragmatists John Dewey and Charles Sanders Pierce. From Tillich he takes the notion of religion, art, and morality as symbol, and the notion that religion is the substance of culture and culture the form of religion. Thus, theology is symbolic engagement with cultural forms, and Neville explores the ways that such engagement occurs among various religious traditions.One of the most important tasks in theology is to devise ways of testing, correcting, or affirming claims that we had been unable to question before. This book will argue that "system" in theology is not merely correlating assertions, but rather building perspectives from which we can render the various parts of theology vulnerable for assessment.In fact, one of the unique features of this book is its engagement with other religions. Such dialogue has been a feature of Neville's work from the beginning. Theology as Symbolic Engagement breaks the boundaries of systematic theology and moves away from the static character that characterizes such enterprises from Barth onward. Instead, Neville's book showcases the dynamic character of all theology.The hallmark of this entire project is its effort to show theology to be hypothetical and to make it vulnerable to correction.

On the Scope and Truth of Theology: Theology as Symbolic Engagement

T&T Clark

This is the first volume of Robert Cumming Neville's magnum opus, Theology as Symbolic Engagement. Neville is the premier American systematic theologian of our time. His work is profoundly influenced by Paul Tillich, Friedrich Schleiermacher, and the American pragmatists John Dewey and Charles Sanders Pierce. From Tillich he takes the notion of religion, art, and morality as symbol, and the notion that religion is the substance of culture and culture the form of religion. Thus, theology is symbolic engagement with cultural forms, and Neville explores the ways that such engagement occurs among various religious traditions.One of the most important tasks in theology is to devise ways of testing, correcting, or  affirming claims that we had been unable to question before. This book will argue that "system" in theology is not merely correlating assertions, but rather building perspectives from which we can render the various parts of theology vulnerable for assessment.In fact, one of the unique features of this book is its engagement with other religions. Such dialogue has been a feature of Neville's work from the beginning. Theology as Symbolic Engagement breaks the boundaries of systematic theology and moves away from the static character that characterizes such enterprises from Barth onward. Instead, Neville's book showcases the dynamic character of all theology.The hallmark of this entire project is its effort to show theology to be hypothetical and to make it vulnerable to correction.

Neville successfully meets the challenge of addressing the lectionary texts together in the contexts where the sermons were preached, addressing issues with a consciousness of world religions, including social concerns and the influence of science. Each chapter issues an invitation to join or invest more deeply in the Christian movement. The volume as a whole focuses on faith seeking understanding. The work is ideal for pastors and everyone who wants to reflect on Scripture in context. The books has five major divisions: * The Evangel focuses on the call to Christian life * The Divine Mystery focuses on the encounter with God * Jesus Christ focuses on Christology * The Church and the World focuses on discipleship * Christian Intelligence focuses on education for discipleship

The God Who Beckons: Theology in the Form of Sermons

ABINGDON PRESS *

Demonstrates the power of the gospel to engage the world's problems through hard-edged thinking and authentic proclamation. Easy answers and simple solutions abound in this world, yet Robert Neville reminds us that the world is itself neither easy nor simple. It is a place of complex problems and thorny difficulties. While pat answers and platitudes satisfy some, there are many others who seek a faith that grapples with real issues in all their complexity and ambiguity. Preaching to those who seek these kinds of answers requires tough intellectual engagement and forthright honesty. In this book Neville models that kind of preaching, revealing the tools and resources necessary to preach to a congregation and community looking for a more authentic faith to lead them through a confusing and challenging world. Robert Cumming Neville is Dean of Marsh Chapel and Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology at Boston University School of Theology.

Preaching the Gospel: Without Easy Answers

"The world is as we interpret it." Arguing that this assumption is a major and pervasive error, Neville demonstrates that the world is the measure of our interpretations. Distinguishing two traditions of hermeneutics, the continental tradition focusing on the interpretation of texts and the American tradition on the interpretation of nature; Neville argues that, since interpretation itself is part of the natural world, a philosophical vision of nature must be restored to currency in order to provide an interpretive theory of the world that can be a measure of interpretation. The natural world must be construed richly enough to be inclusive of human intention and purpose. By taking the discussion of hermeneutics from the context of textuality and placing it within that of nature, Recovery of the Measure provides a non-modernist and non-postmodernist theory of interpretation. The first four chapters and the last four constitute a hermeneutical theory addressing contemporary problems of interpretation situated in the context of the philosophy of nature. The middle chapters provide a compact philosophy of nature dealing with being, identity, value, space, time, motion, and causation.

Recovery of the Measure: Interpretation and Nature (Suny Series in American Labor History)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

State University of New York Press

“The world is as we interpret it.” Arguing that this assumption is a major and pervasive error, Neville demonstrates that the world is the measure of our interpretations. Distinguishing two traditions of hermeneutics, the continental tradition focusing on the interpretation of texts and the American tradition on the interpretation of nature; Neville argues that, since interpretation itself is part of the natural world, a philosophical vision of nature must be restored to currency in order to provide an interpretive theory of the world that can be a measure of interpretation. The natural world must be construed richly enough to be inclusive of human intention and purpose. By taking the discussion of hermeneutics from the context of textuality and placing it within that of nature, Recovery of the Measure provides a non-modernist and non-postmodernist theory of interpretation. The first four chapters and the last four constitute a hermeneutical theory addressing contemporary problems of interpretation situated in the context of the philosophy of nature. The middle chapters provide a compact philosophy of nature dealing with being, identity, value, space, time, motion, and causation.

Recovery of the Measure: Interpretation and Nature (Axiology of Thinking, Vol. 2)

History

Behind the Masks of God develops an abstract concept of creation ex nihilo to compare and contextualize many of the symbols and more concrete ideas of divinity in world religions. The first focus is Christianity, and the book is put forward as an essay in Christian theology. In addition, the essay asks how creation ex nihilo serves to relate Christianity to other religions, particularly those of China. Neville addresses both Buddhism and Christianity, and to a lesser extent Taoism, as test cases for the applicability of creation ex nihilo as a fundamental comparative category for connecting theistic religions with non-theistic ones.

Behind the Masks of God: An Essay Toward Comparative Theology

Religious Studies

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Symbols of Jesus: A Christology of Symbolic Engagement

Symbols of Jesus: A Christology of Symbolic Engagement

On the Scope and Truth of Theology: Theology as Symbolic Engagement

On the Scope and Truth of Theology: Theology as Symbolic Engagement

The God Who Beckons: Theology in the Form of Sermons

Preaching the Gospel: Without Easy Answers

Recovery of the Measure: Interpretation and Nature (Suny Series in American Labor History)

Recovery of the Measure: Interpretation and Nature (Axiology of Thinking, Vol. 2)

Behind the Masks of God: An Essay Toward Comparative Theology

Behind the Masks of God: An Essay Toward Comparative Theology