God, the Mind's Desire (Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine Series): Reference, Reason and Christian Thinking, Vol. 11 Book

A reconnaissance of theology and epistemology 1

1 Theological integrity between reductionism and positivism 1

2 Theology and rational obligation within the basic structure of this book 8

Theology and the lure of obscurity 24

1 'Post-subject' thinking : post-structuralism and ultra-pragmatism 26

2 Consequences of anti-rationalism 43

Philosophy's perpetual polarities : anti-realism and realism 51

1 Anti-realism and realism present and past 52

2 Hilary Putnam's anti-realist ('internalist') account of rational obligation 60

3 Thomas Nagel's realist ('externalist') account of rational obligation 68

Philosophy's perpetual polarities : making and finding 80

1 Donald MacKinnon's conciliatory realism 81

2 An integrated theory of correspondence : finality on four levels, from 'common sense' to 'focal sense' 89

3 Assessment 98

Philosophy's perpetual polarities : act and being 102

1 Bonhoeffer's 'transcendental attempt' 107

2 Bonhoeffer's 'ontological attempt' 113

3 Assessment 115

The Kantian inversion of 'all previous philosophy' 123

1 Standard misconstruals of the Critique of pure reason 127

2 Kant's 'Copernican revolution' : the inversion of anti-realism (idealism) and realism 136

3 Empirical realism 145

4 Rational integrity and Kant's doctrine of noumena 157

Tragedy, empirical history and finality 168

1 Tragedy and transcendence 170

2 Theological reference as empirical reference 180

3 The Eucharist as empirical referent 185

Penultimacy and Christology 191

1 Penultimacy 192

2 Autonomous and creaturely ways of being human 195

3 A 'derivation' of penultimacy as creaturely human being 198

4 Penultimacy and Christianthinking 213