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Distinguished scholars provide the first book-length consideration of the work of philosopher and theologian Robert Cummings Neville, including a response from Neville himself.
Interpreting Neville provides the first book-length treatment of the thought of Robert Cummings Neville, one of the most important and wide-ranging scholars working across the fields of philosophy, theology, and comparative studies today. Contributors assess the systematic structure and methodological unity of Neville's trilogy Axiology of Thinking, provide a postmodern contextualization of Neville's philosophy, and evaluate the critical relation of Neville to the history of Western philosophy. Metaphysical questions crucial to Neville's project are critiqued from different vantage points, theological problems are examined, and the comparative issues outstanding in Neville's understanding of Chinese philosophy are assessed. Enhancing the book is a rich concluding essay written by Neville himself in response to each author.
[Contributors include George Allan, Delwin Brown, J. Harley Chapman, Chung-ying Cheng, Patricia Cook, Robert Corrington, Hermann Deuser, Lewis S. Ford, Nancy K. Frankenberry, David L. Hall, George R. Lucas, Jr., Robert C. Neville, Sandra Rosenthal, Marjorie Suchocki, Carl G. Vaught, and Edith Wyschogrod.]
"This is a book that is long overdue. By gathering fifteen essays about Neville in one place, it exhibits the extraordinary range of Neville's project. Neville is a truly systematic thinker, one whose work contributes to philosophy, religious studies, theology, and church life. Promoting a fuller appreciation for Neville's scope is the signal achievement of this volume." — Warren G. Frisina, Hofstra University
"Neville is one of the few systematic thinkers in contemporary American theology or philosophy. This book shows the current vitality of the systematic tradition, while challenging him." — David Weissman, City College of New York
Preface
PART I. Neville's Methodology
1. Thinking Axiologically
George Allan
2. Re-reading Neville: A Postmodern Perspective
Edith Wyschogrod
PART II. Neville and Western Philosophy
3. Neville's Use of Plato
Patricia Cook
4. Neville and Pragmatism: Toward Ongoing Dialogue
Sandra B. Rosenthal
5. Ethics, Metaphysics, and the Use of Comparative Cultural Traditions in the Philosophy of Robert Neville
George R. Lucas Jr.
6. On the Very Idea of Symbolic Meaning
Nancy K. Frankenberry
7. Neville's Self in Time and Eternity
J. Harley Chapman
PART III. Metaphysical Questions
8. Neville's 'Naturalism' and the Location of God
Robert S. Corrington
9. Being, Nonbeing, and Creation Ex Nihilo
Carl G. Vaught
10. Creation and Concrescence
Lewis S. Ford
PART IV. Theological Problems
11. Knowing the Mystery of God: Neville and Apophatic Theology
Delwin Brown
12. Neville's Theology: A Feminist and Process Dialogue
Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki
13. Neville's Theology of Creation, Covenant, and Trinity
Hermann Deuser
PART V. Comparative Issues
14. On Neville's Understanding of Chinese Philosophy: Ontology of Wu, Cosmology of Yi, and Normalogy of Li
Chung-ying Cheng
15. The Culture of Metaphysics: On Saving Neville's Project (from Neville)
David L. Hall
PART VI. Robert Neville Replies
16. Responding to My Critics
Robert Cummings Neville
Publications of Robert Cummings Neville
List of Contributors
Index