William J Wainwright
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1107697 |
|---|---|
| NOME | William J Wainwright |
| PRENOMES | William J |
| SOBRENOME | Wainwright |
| ASSINATURA | WAINWRIGHT W J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1966 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Ontological and Experiential Transcendence and the Love of God
This paper examines two types of transcendence and their relation to love. Ontological transcendence is a feature of metaphysical traditions such as Plotinus’s or Shankara’s that sharply distinguish ultimate reality from the space-time world. Experential transcendence is a feature of cognitive experiences whose object (if any) is neither the space-time world as a whole or anything in it. Paul Tillich’s discussion of Being itself provides my prima…
Reason, Revelation, and Devotion
Reason, Revelation, and Devotion argues that immersion in religious reading traditions and their associated spiritual practices significantly shapes our emotions, desires, intuitions, and volitional commitments; these in turn affect our construction and assessments of arguments for religious conclusions. But far from distorting the reasoning process, these emotions and volitional and cognitive dispositions can be essential for sound reasoning on …
The Spiritual Senses
Is it possible to see, hear, touch, smell and taste God? How do we understand the biblical promise that the 'pure in heart' will 'see God'? Christian thinkers as diverse as Origen of Alexandria, Bonaventure, Jonathan Edwards and Hans Urs von Balthasar have all approached these questions in distinctive ways by appealing to the concept of the 'spiritual senses'. In focusing on the Christian tradition of the 'spiritual senses', this book discusses h…
Theology and Mystery
The Oxford handbook of philosophy of religion
Zelinski on Mysticism and Morality
Philosophy of Religion
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion
The second half of the 20th-century was an especially fruitful period, seeing new developments in logic and epistemology to mount both sophisticated defences of, and attacks on, religious claims. Each chapter of this handbook is representative of a distinct viewpoint related to these issues.
Part One
Mysticism and Language . Steven T. Katz
The Justification of Science and the Rationality of Religious Belief . Michael C. Banner
James, Rationality and Religious Belief
One of James's earliest philosophical essays sounds a note which will echo through his writings. Criticizing Spencer's definition of truth as (‘mere’) correspondence, James asserts that a ‘correspondence’ between the mind and reality is a ‘ right mental action’, and rightness is determined by ‘pure subjective interests ...brought... upon the scene and corresponding to no relation already there’ (EP 11)
Wilfred Cantwell Smith on faith and belief
In a series of important and influential books, Wilfred Cantwell Smith has convincingly argued that religious traditions are misunderstood if one does not grasp the faith which they express, that these traditions are not static but fluid, and that as a result of greater knowledge and increased contact between members of different traditions, we have entered a period in which it is no longer possible for the traditions to develop in relative isola…
Mysticism
Religion in North America
Journal Article RELIGION IN NORTH AMERICA Get access Scientific and Philosophical Writings (Works of Jonathan Edwards, 6). By Jonathan Edwards. Edited by Wallace E. Anderson. New Haven and London Yale University Press, 1980 viii+433 pages, appendices, index $25.00 ISBN 0-300-02282-4. William J. Wainwright William J. Wainwright University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the…
Value and Existence
Jonathan Edwards and the Language of God
Part 1 shows that while Edwards and Berkeley both regard nature as God's discourse and speak of this discourse in similar ways, Edwards differs from Berkeley in believing that the signs of this discourse signify spiritual and divine realities. Part 2 explains why Edwards thought it reasonable to believe that our world is a world of types and images. Because our world is a world of resemblances and imitations, because spiritual things are its “alp…
Philosophy
Journal Article PHILOSOPHY Get access God in Contemporary Thought: A Philosophical Perspective (Philosophical Questions Series, 10). Edited by Sebastian A. Matczak. New York: Learned Publications, dist. by Rose of Sharon Press, 1977. xv+l 119 pages, index. $55.00. ISBN 0-912116-12-9. William J. Wainwright William J. Wainwright University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the…
From Belief to Understanding, A Study of Anselm's Proslogion Argument on the Existence of God
Interpretation, Description, and Mystical Consciousness
Part I examines Walter Stace's classification of mystical experience, R. C. Zahner's criticism of that classification, and Ninian Smart's response to Zaehner. Zaehner rightly faults Stace for distorting theistic mysticism and for ignoring the Hindu tradition of love mysticism. Smart's criticisms of Zaehner are to the point, though inconclusive. However, his own thesis is incoherent. If (as he admits) the experiences of monistic and theistic mysti…
Belief and Conceptual RelativityBelief, Language, and Experience. Rodney Needham
God's Body
HE belief that God has a body is by no means uncommon in the history of religious thought, nor is that belief confined to the primitive and unsophisticated. The Manichaeans, Tertullian, certain Egyptian anchorites, and the Mormons have all maintained that God has (or is) some particular body. Rimninuja and, more recently, Charles Hartshorne have suggested that the world is God's body. There are two reasons why these views deserve more attention t…
Mysticism and Sense Perception
In this paper I propose to examine the cognitive status of mystical experience. There are, I think, (at least) three distinct but overlapping sorts of religious experience. (1) In the first place, there are two kinds of mystical experience. The extrovertive or nature mystic (in some sense) identifies himself with a world which is both transfigured and one. The introvertive mystic withdraws from the world and, after stripping the mind of concepts …
Paul Tillich and Arguments for the Existence of God
Journal Article Paul Tillich and Arguments for the Existence of God Get access WILLIAM J. WAINWRIGHT WILLIAM J. WAINWRIGHT WILLIAM J. WAINWRIGHT, Ph.D., University of Michigan, is associate professor of Philosophy and acting chairman of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His articles have appeared in such places as Nous, Religious Studies, The American Philosophical Quarterly, The Journal of Religion, an…
The Presence of Evil and the Falsification of Theistic Assertions
The falsifiability of theistic assertions no longer appears to be the burning issue it once was, and perhaps this is all to the good. For one thing, it was never entirely clear just what demand was being made of the theist. In this paper I shall not discuss the nature or legitimacy of the falsification requirement as applied to theistic assertions. Instead I shall argue that some of the reasons which have been offered to show that these assertion…
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Religious Statements and the World
In the past few years philosophers of religion and theologians have devoted much attention to the status of religious statements. There are three main positions: (1) The statements as generally understood are (false) empirical statements. The people who make them have either made honest mistakes (they are unaware of the counter evidence) or they are irrational. This view may be coupled with the claim that religious language can be reconstructed i…
The Nature of Love
The Presence of Evil and the Falsification of Theistic Assertions
The falsifiability of theistic assertions no longer appears to be the burning issue it once was, and perhaps this is all to the good. For one thing, it was never entirely clear just what demand was being made of the theist. In this paper I shall not discuss the nature or legitimacy of the falsification requirement as applied to theistic assertions. Instead I shall argue that some of the reasons which have been offered to show that these assertion…
Paul Tillich and Arguments for the Existence of God
Journal Article Paul Tillich and Arguments for the Existence of God Get access WILLIAM J. WAINWRIGHT WILLIAM J. WAINWRIGHT WILLIAM J. WAINWRIGHT, Ph.D., University of Michigan, is associate professor of Philosophy and acting chairman of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His articles have appeared in such places as Nous, Religious Studies, The American Philosophical Quarterly, The Journal of Religion, an…
Mysticism and Sense Perception
In this paper I propose to examine the cognitive status of mystical experience. There are, I think, (at least) three distinct but overlapping sorts of religious experience. (1) In the first place, there are two kinds of mystical experience. The extrovertive or nature mystic (in some sense) identifies himself with a world which is both transfigured and one. The introvertive mystic withdraws from the world and, after stripping the mind of concepts …
Belief and Conceptual RelativityBelief, Language, and Experience. Rodney Needham
God's Body
HE belief that God has a body is by no means uncommon in the history of religious thought, nor is that belief confined to the primitive and unsophisticated. The Manichaeans, Tertullian, certain Egyptian anchorites, and the Mormons have all maintained that God has (or is) some particular body. Rimninuja and, more recently, Charles Hartshorne have suggested that the world is God's body. There are two reasons why these views deserve more attention t…
Interpretation, Description, and Mystical Consciousness
Part I examines Walter Stace's classification of mystical experience, R. C. Zahner's criticism of that classification, and Ninian Smart's response to Zaehner. Zaehner rightly faults Stace for distorting theistic mysticism and for ignoring the Hindu tradition of love mysticism. Smart's criticisms of Zaehner are to the point, though inconclusive. However, his own thesis is incoherent. If (as he admits) the experiences of monistic and theistic mysti…
From Belief to Understanding, A Study of Anselm's Proslogion Argument on the Existence of God
Philosophy
Journal Article PHILOSOPHY Get access God in Contemporary Thought: A Philosophical Perspective (Philosophical Questions Series, 10). Edited by Sebastian A. Matczak. New York: Learned Publications, dist. by Rose of Sharon Press, 1977. xv+l 119 pages, index. $55.00. ISBN 0-912116-12-9. William J. Wainwright William J. Wainwright University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the…
Jonathan Edwards and the Language of God
Part 1 shows that while Edwards and Berkeley both regard nature as God's discourse and speak of this discourse in similar ways, Edwards differs from Berkeley in believing that the signs of this discourse signify spiritual and divine realities. Part 2 explains why Edwards thought it reasonable to believe that our world is a world of types and images. Because our world is a world of resemblances and imitations, because spiritual things are its “alp…
Religion in North America
Journal Article RELIGION IN NORTH AMERICA Get access Scientific and Philosophical Writings (Works of Jonathan Edwards, 6). By Jonathan Edwards. Edited by Wallace E. Anderson. New Haven and London Yale University Press, 1980 viii+433 pages, appendices, index $25.00 ISBN 0-300-02282-4. William J. Wainwright William J. Wainwright University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the…
Value and Existence
Wilfred Cantwell Smith on faith and belief
In a series of important and influential books, Wilfred Cantwell Smith has convincingly argued that religious traditions are misunderstood if one does not grasp the faith which they express, that these traditions are not static but fluid, and that as a result of greater knowledge and increased contact between members of different traditions, we have entered a period in which it is no longer possible for the traditions to develop in relative isola…
Mysticism
James, Rationality and Religious Belief
One of James's earliest philosophical essays sounds a note which will echo through his writings. Criticizing Spencer's definition of truth as (‘mere’) correspondence, James asserts that a ‘correspondence’ between the mind and reality is a ‘ right mental action’, and rightness is determined by ‘pure subjective interests ...brought... upon the scene and corresponding to no relation already there’ (EP 11)
The Justification of Science and the Rationality of Religious Belief . Michael C. Banner
Mysticism and Language . Steven T. Katz
Part One
Philosophy of Religion
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion
The second half of the 20th-century was an especially fruitful period, seeing new developments in logic and epistemology to mount both sophisticated defences of, and attacks on, religious claims. Each chapter of this handbook is representative of a distinct viewpoint related to these issues.
Zelinski on Mysticism and Morality
The Oxford handbook of philosophy of religion
Theology and Mystery
The Spiritual Senses
Is it possible to see, hear, touch, smell and taste God? How do we understand the biblical promise that the 'pure in heart' will 'see God'? Christian thinkers as diverse as Origen of Alexandria, Bonaventure, Jonathan Edwards and Hans Urs von Balthasar have all approached these questions in distinctive ways by appealing to the concept of the 'spiritual senses'. In focusing on the Christian tradition of the 'spiritual senses', this book discusses h…
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