Theology in Global Context: Essays in Honor of Robert C. Neville

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Robert Cummings Neville has been a consistent advocate for the necessity of global theology. Early in his career, he realized that the philosophical framework of the West alone was inadequate for a truly global theology. Since then, he has sought to develop theology creatively and responsibly within the world context. The original essays in the volume participate in and model the kind of dialogical, global theology embodied in Neville’s work. Preface PART ONE Neville’s Systematic Theology of Symbolic Engagement Engagement Robert Cummings Neville and Theology’s Global Future The Twenty-First Century Context of Christian Theology Global Citizenship, Religion, and World Order ssisc Civilizing World Society: Order, Terror, Piety L'ESStff: Borderline Ethics and Intra-Community Violence and Murder among Young Afrikan American Males The Borderline Situation Intra-Community Violence and Murder Among Young Afrikan American Males A Borderline Ethics Response Axiology and Ecology: Neville’s Contribution to an Ecological Ethic Jesus and Monotheism: Theological Transformations of Religious Philosophy Monotheistic Pluralism Global Critical Monotheism Theses toward Global Critical Monotheisms Refiner’s Fire: Some Reflections on Neville, Postmodernism, and the Trends in Discourses on Islam PART TWO Neville Turns East Neville’s Axiological Cosmology of Imaginative Synthesis: A Framework for Comparative Theology and Religion Pragmatism, Logical Vagueness, and the Art of Comparative Engagement Immortality The Economy of Cosmic Power: A Vision for a Daoist Theology of Religion Mary, Mother of Mylapore: Symbolic Engagement as an Interreligious Transaction Toward a Christian Advaita: Sankara, Tillich, and Neville in Dialogue Creatio ex nihilo: Cosmological and Ontological PART THREE Godhead, God(s), Religion(s) and the Future of the Christian Religion Religion(s) The Future of the Christian Religion(s)11 Excursus The Primordial, Godhead, and Apocalyptic Christianity Graceful Reality: A Foundation for the Future of Philosophy and Theology Grace in Neville’s System The Future of the Cross: Symbolic Engagement with the Atonement Ill KK£S Infinity and Intersubjectivity A More Radical Pluralism Which Way toward a Theology of Religions: Pragmatist, Methodist, Ecumenist? !!»! .-ssssssr Theology’s Great Sin: Silence in the Face of White Supremacy PART FOUR Thanks and Conversation: Responding to My Theological Colleagues Symbolic Engagement Creation Religion Ethics Robert Cummings Neville: Select List of Publications Contributors Name Index