RT Article
T1 Philosophical Theology for a New Age
JF Religions
VO 14
IS 3
A1 Neville, Robert C. 1939-
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1838791051
AB Having distinguished the primary philosophers of religion, those whose philosophies of “Everything” entail something about religion, from those who study only or mainly religion, this article discusses the necessary comparative base for the future of the field. It distinguishes the approach that begins with the subject matter from the approach that sticks with a home tradition to which comparison adds new material, arguing for the former. The religions of West Asia, South Asia, and East Asia are discussed, noting the naturalistic form of the last. The fundamental comparative category for philosophy of religion is the Ultimate, of which I give my own version. This version also requires categories defining determinate things, their togetherness of various sorts, and their essential and conditional components. To be plausible, this theory needs to be associated positively and negatively with the main religious traditions and with our relation to nature and society. Religious lives need to be scaled from the primitive and literalistic all the way to the philosophical. Philosophy of religion or philosophical theology of all sorts is fallible and needs to prepare for the next step.
K1 Ultimacy
K1 Togetherness
K1 ontological creative act
K1 harmonies
K1 and East Asian religions
K1 South
K1 God as ultimate in West
K1 diverse cultures
K1 determinate things
K1 big and small picture philosophers
DO 10.3390/rel14030359