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Religion and Human Purpose

A Cross Disciplinary Approach

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  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. William Horosz

    1. University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA

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  2. Tad S. Clements

    1. State University of New York, Brockport, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in Philosophy and Religion (STPAR, volume 6)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  2. From the Philosophical Perspective

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Linguistic Philosophy and the Meaning of Life’

      • Kai Nielsen
      Pages 3-29

    3. Phenomenology of Religion and Human Purpose

      • J. N. Mohanty
      Pages 31-47

    4. The Concept of Purpose in a Naturalistic Humanist Perspective

      • Tad S. Clements
      Pages 49-67

    5. The Recovery of Human Purpose in the Religious Life

      • William Horosz
      Pages 69-101

  3. From the Religious Perspective

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. Orthodox Judaism and Human Purpose

      • Walter S. Wurtzburger
      Pages 105-122

    3. Liberal Judaism and the Human Purpose

      • Jacob B. Agus
      Pages 123-141

    4. Human Purposiveness in St. Thomas Aquinas

      • Francis J. Kovach
      Pages 143-164

    5. The Concept of Purpose in Reformation Thought

      • Robert Bretall
      Pages 165-195

    6. The Liberal Commitment to Divine Immanence

      • William Horosz
      Pages 197-231

  4. From the Perspective of Indian Religion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233
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    2. Purpose of Man in the Tradition of Indian Orthodoxy

      • S. P. Banerjee
      Pages 235-270

    3. The Concepts of Man and Human Purpose in Contemporary Indian Thought

      • D. P. Chattopadhyaya
      Pages 271-307

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 309-309
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About this book

The cross-disciplinary studies in this volume are of special interest because they link human purpose to the present debate between religion and the process of secularization. If that debate is to be a creative one, the notion of the 'human orderer' must be related significantly both to the sacred and secular realms. In fact, if man were not a purposive being, he would have neither religious nor secular problems. Questions about origins and destiny, divine purposiveness and the order of human development, would not arise as topics of human concern. It would appear, then, that few would deny the fact of man's purposiveness in existence, that the pursuit of these purposes constitutes the dramas of history and culture. Yet the case is otherwise. For, concerning 'purposes' itself, widely divergent, even antithetical, views have been held. The common man has mistrusted its guidance for purpose, much too often, 'changes its mind'. Its fluctuations and whimsical nature are too much even for common sense. The sciences have identified purpose with the personal life and viewed it as a function of the subject self. Consequently they had no need for it in scientific method and objective knowledge. The religions of the world have used purpose in its holistic sense, for purposes of establishing grandious systems of religious totality and for stating the ultimate goals in man's destiny.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA

    William Horosz

  • State University of New York, Brockport, USA

    Tad S. Clements

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Religion and Human Purpose

  • Book Subtitle: A Cross Disciplinary Approach

  • Editors: William Horosz, Tad S. Clements

  • Series Title: Studies in Philosophy and Religion

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3483-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-3000-1Published: 31 December 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8059-0Published: 20 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3483-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 309

  • Topics: Philosophy of Religion

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