A ‘No’ at the Core of Life

• Authors: Jonathan Weidenbaum
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of this essay is to unpack the relevance of William James for the project of a transreligious theology. While the resources of reason and spiritual experience have long been employed to arbitrate both within and between different spiritual traditions, I argue that James offers a third principle: the encouragement of the morally active life, along with a corresponding depiction of the universe in which our efforts may contribute to the nature of things.

Keywords

EN

theology; philosophy of religion; transreligious theology; William James; ethics

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Open Theology
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1

Dates

received

2016-01-20

accepted

2016-03-21

online

2016-04-25

Contributors

author

Jonathan Weidenbaum

• Berkeley College, USA

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/opth-2016-0017