The Analogy of Signs: Rethinking Theological Language with Charles S. Peirce

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The Analogy of Signs
The Analogy of Signs: Rethinking Theological Language with Charles S. Peirce
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures and Table
	Figures
	Table
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Chapter 1
Introduction
	The Challenge: Intelligible, Christian God-Talk
	The Philosophical Roots of Analogical Unintelligibility: Essentialism and Dualism
	The Theological Problems Resulting from Greek Essentialism and Dualism
	A Peircean Alternative: The Analogy of Signs
	Structure of the Book
	A Brief Excursus on Theological Commitments
	Notes
Part I Guidelines for a Successful Analogy
Chapter 2
How Analogy Works
	Introduction
	What Allows for Intelligibility?
	The Aristotelian Backdrop
	Medieval Interim Developments, Cajetan, and Clarifying Proportionality
	Mary Hesse’s Commentary on Aristotle
	Hesse’s Models and Analogies in Science
	Scholarly Approaches to Analogy after Hesse
	Taking Stock: Guidelines for an Intelligible Analogy
	Notes
Part II Influential Positions on Theological Analogy and Their Inadequacies
Chapter 3
Analogia Entis
	Introduction
	Erich Przywara
	Hans Urs von Balthasar
	Karl Rahner
	Critiquing the analogia entis
	Conclusion: Assessing the Accounts according to the Guidelines
	Notes
Chapter 4
Grammatical Thomism and Analogy
	Introduction
	Ralph McInerny
	David Burrell
	Critiquing McInerny and Burrell
	Victor Preller
	Critiquing Preller
	Conclusion: Assessing the Accounts according to the Guidelines
	Notes
Chapter 5
Analogia Fidei
	Introduction
	Karl Barth on the Analogia Entis
	Barth’s Kantian Presuppositions and Theological Departure from Kant
	Faith in CD I/1
	Analogy of Extrinsic Attribution in CD II/1
	Analogia Relationis in CD III/1 and 2
	Critiquing the Analogia Fidei
	Theological Defenses of Barth’s Analogia Fidei
	Conclusion: Assessing the Account according to the Guidelines
	Notes
Part III The Peircean Alternative for Theological Analogy
Chapter 6
Peirce’s Philosophy and Intelligibility
	Introduction
	Science and Empirical Method
	Architectonic
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 7
Analogia Signorum
	Introduction
	Peircean Obstacles: An Assessment
	Analogia Signorum: Structure and Peircean Elements
	The Analogia Signorum in Application
	Reflections on the Bible and the Analogia Signorum
	Some Philosophical Reflections on the Analogia Signorum
	The Analogia Signorum as Superior Model of Intelligibility
	Conclusion: Assessing the Account according to the Guidelines
	Notes
Conclusion
	Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author