Nature's ReligionIn Nature's Religion, distinguished theologian and philosopher Robert S. Corrington weaves together the concept of infinite semiosis with that of the transference to show that the self does have access to something in nature that is intrinsically religious. |
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Page ix
... reality . The second is equivocal , showing what falls out of any univocal analysis and revealing the intrinsic ambiguity of thought . The third is dialectical , uniting the univocal and equivocal approaches by a process of ...
... reality . The second is equivocal , showing what falls out of any univocal analysis and revealing the intrinsic ambiguity of thought . The third is dialectical , uniting the univocal and equivocal approaches by a process of ...
Page xii
... reality . Rather he defends a kind of Peircean realism in religion as in science . On the other hand , and here is the central polemical point of this book , traditional religions usually have indeed gone beyond semiotic projective ...
... reality . Rather he defends a kind of Peircean realism in religion as in science . On the other hand , and here is the central polemical point of this book , traditional religions usually have indeed gone beyond semiotic projective ...
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... reality . God mirrors us , and we mirror god . As will emerge in the body of the treatise , any such mirroring is deeply complex and is often one that has nothing to do with our narcissistic hunger to be reconfigured along the lines of ...
... reality . God mirrors us , and we mirror god . As will emerge in the body of the treatise , any such mirroring is deeply complex and is often one that has nothing to do with our narcissistic hunger to be reconfigured along the lines of ...
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... reality within nature . Natural grace , which comes to us from the heart of nature , makes it possible to work toward a categorial framework that does justice to the potencies of nature naturing . Both the sacred and the human process ...
... reality within nature . Natural grace , which comes to us from the heart of nature , makes it possible to work toward a categorial framework that does justice to the potencies of nature naturing . Both the sacred and the human process ...
Page 11
... reality for describing how a pretemporal and prespatial potency can give birth to something spatial- temporal . The ... realities and brings them into correlation . The infinitesimal does the work of the potencies and makes it possible ...
... reality for describing how a pretemporal and prespatial potency can give birth to something spatial- temporal . The ... realities and brings them into correlation . The infinitesimal does the work of the potencies and makes it possible ...
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Page 19 - The will, considered purely in itself, is devoid of knowledge, and is only a blind, irresistible urge, as we see it appear in inorganic and vegetable nature and in their laws, and also in the vegetative part of our own life.