Normative Cultures

304 Pages·1995·5.774 MB·English

by  Robert Cummings Neville

NORMATIVE CULTURES
BOOKS BY ROBERT CUMMINGS NEVILLE
God the Creator: On the Transcendence and Presence of God (Chicago, 1968)
The Cosmology of Freedom (Yale, 1974)
Soldier, Sage, Saint (Fordham, 1978)
Creativity and God: A Challenge to Process Theology (Seabury, 1980)
Published by the State University of New York Press
Reconstruction of Thinking (1981)*
The Tao and the Daimon: Segments of a Religious Inquiry (1982)
The Puritan Smile: A Look toward Moral Reflection (1987)
New Essays in Metaphysics (edited, 1987)
Recovery of the Measure: Interpretation and Nature (1989)*
Behind the Masks of God: An Essay Toward Comparative Theology (1991)
A Theology Primer (1991)
God the Creator (corrected edition with a new preface, 1992)
The Highroad around Modernism (1992)
Eternity and Time’s Flow (1993)
*Volumes in the series, Axiology of Thinking
Normative
Cultures
ROBERT CUMMINGS NEVILLE
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Neville, Robert C.
Normative cultures / by Robert Cummings Neville.
p- cm.— (Axiology of thinking ; v. 3)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7914-2577-0 (alk. paper). — ISBN 0-7914-2578-9 (pbk. :
alk. paper)
1. Theory (Philosophy) 2. Values. 3. Philosophy, Comparative.
4. Thought and thinking. I. Title. II. Series: Neville, Robert C.
Axiology of thinking series ; v. 3.
B842.N48 1995
121°.8—dc20 94-3343
CIP
1098765432 1
For
Paul Weiss
Ada Steele Brumbaugh
In Memory of
Robert Sherrill Brumbaugh
Volume Three
of
Axiology of Thinking
Containing Parts Four and Five
Part 4. Theory
Part 5. Responsibility
Vol. 1. Reconstruction of Thinking
Part 1. Foundations
Part 2. Imagination
Vol. 2. Recovery of the Measure
Part 3. Interpretation
Vol. 3. Normative Cultures
Part 4. Theory
Part 5. Responsibility