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God and the World of Signs: Trinity, Evolution, and the Metaphysical Semiotics of C. S. Peirce(2 Philosophical Studies in Science and Religion)

God and the World of Signs: Trinity, Evolution, and the Metaphysical Semiotics of C. S. Peirce(2 Philosophical Studies in Science and Religion)

          
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Christianity has been described as “a religion seeking a metaphysic”. Drawing on the philosophy of C. S. Peirce, Robinson develops a metaphysical framework centred around a ‘semiotic model’ of the Trinity. The model invites a fresh approach to the claim that Jesus was the incarnate Word of God and suggests a new way of understanding how nature may bear the imprint of the Triune Creator in the form of ‘vestiges of the Trinity in creation’. Scientific spin-offs include a new perspective on the problem of the origin of life and a novel hypothesis about the evolution of human distinctiveness. The result is an original contribution to Trinitarian theology and a bold new way of integrating philosophy, science and religion.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements ... xi Abbreviations ... xiii Introduction ... 1 1. Peirce’s Metaphysical Semiotics ... 15 1.1 A World Perfused With Signs ... 15 1.2 Peirce’s Categories: Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness ... 20 1.2.1 Peirce’s Gift to the World ... 20 1.2.2 A Priori and Phenomenological Derivation of the Categories ... 23 1.2.3 Further Features of Firstness ... 28 1.3 Peirce’s Semiotics ... 31 1.3.1 The Development of Peirce’s Theory of Signs ... 31 1.3.2 Semiotics and the Categories ... 37 1.3.3 More Kinds of Sign and Further Iterations of the Categories ... 39 1.4 Peirce’s Theory of Inquiry ... 43 1.4.1 Fallibilism and Inference ... 43 1.4.2 Pragmatism and Realism ... 49 1.4.3 Faith, Hope and Charity: Virtues of the Community of Inquirers ... 56 2. A Semiotic Model of the Trinity ... 61 2.1 The Son / Word and Secondness ... 63 2.1.1 In the Beginning Was the Word ... 63 2.1.2 Logos As Secondness: Points of Disagreement? ... 68 2.2 The Father and Firstness ... 72 2.2.1 The Transcendence of the Father and the Homoousion of the Son ... 72 2.2.2 Firstness and Ingenerateness ... 77 2.2.3 Essence and Energies: On Not Knowing God by a Definition ... 81 2.3 The Spirit and Thirdness ... 84 2.3.1 The Lord the Giver of Life ... 84 2.3.2 The Procession of the Spirit ... 90 2.4 Persons, Relations, and Perichoresis ... 97 2.4.1 The Problem with Relations ... 97 2.4.2 A Semiotic Model of the Trinity ... 101 2.5 Peirce and the Trinity ... 108 3. Semiotics, Incarnation and Anthropology ... 113 3.1 Incarnation and Peirce’s Taxonomy of Signs ... 115 3.1.1 Jesus and the Enacted Return of YHWH ... 115 3.1.2 Jesus’ Signs and Peirce’s Taxonomy ... 118 3.1.3 Incarnation As Qualisign ... 123 3.2 Semiotics and Christology ... 128 3.2.1 Three Dimensions of Christology ... 128 3.2.2 Qualisign or Real-Symbol?: Peirce vs. Rahner ... 133 3.2.3 Fused Substances and Broken Symbols: Response to Two Objections ... 140 3.3 Semiotics and Palaeo-Anthropology ... 143 3.3.1 Human Distinctiveness and Hierarchical Semiotics ... 143 3.3.2 Human Evolution and the Semiotic Matrix ... 150 3.4 Semiotics and Theological Anthropology ... 161 3.4.1 Self-Transcendence and the Gift of Abduction ... 161 3.4.2 Discipleship as Interpretative Transformation ... 166 4. Evolution, Theology and Biosemiotics ... 179 4.1 Darwinism and Theology ... 181 4.1.1 Three Phases of Darwinism ... 181 4.1.2 Biosemiotics: Resource for a Theology of Nature? ... 186 4.2 Interpretation, Teleology, and the Origin of Life ... 196 4.2.1 Defining Purpose and Interpretation ... 196 4.2.2 Interpretation and the Emergence of Life ... 207 4.2.3 Biosemiotics vs. Teleosemantics ... 213 5. Vestiges of the Trinity in Creation ... 221 5.1 Peirce’s Evolutionary Cosmology ... 224 5.1.1 Biographical Context: Vocation and Destitution ... 224 5.1.2 Three Modes of Evolution: Chance, Necessity and Love ... 227 5.2 Braiding the Strands: Towards a Trinitarian Theology of Nature ... 235 5.2.1 Continuity, Semiosis and Thirdness ... 235 5.2.2 Contingency, Emergent Novelty, and Firstness ... 240 5.2.3 Naturalism, Secondness and the Trinitarian Mediation of Creation ... 248 5.3 Vestiges of the Trinity in Creation ... 256 5.3.1 Analogy, Likeness, or Vestige? ... 256 5.3.2 The Two Hands of God ... 262 5.3.3 The Immanent and Economic Trinity ... 269 6. Metaphysics and the Architecture of Knowledge ... 279 6.1 Metaphysics and the Architecture of Theories ... 281 6.1.1 Do Not Block the Way of Inquiry ... 281 6.1.2 Cenoscopy and Synthetic Philosophy ... 285 6.2 Natural Theology and Revelation ... 290 6.3 A ‘Cosmological Argument’ From the Universes of Experience ... 303 6.3.1 Peirce’s ‘Neglected Argument’ ... 303 6.3.2 A Petite Bouchée with the Categories: Intimations of the Trinity ... 305 7. Guesses At Some Riddles ... 313 7.1 Trinitarian Selfhood: Psyche, Society or Semiosis? ... 314 7.1.1 Psychological and Social Analogies for the Trinity ... 314 7.1.2 The Psychological Analogies Re-visited ... 318 7.1.3 The Semiotic Model and Peirce’s Approach to the Self ... 320 7.2 Two Guesses about Firstness ... 329 7.2.1 The Freedom of the Father and the Goodness of Creation ... 329 7.2.2 Firstness and the Quest For the Maternal ... 333 8. Epilogue: If the Fathers Had Known Peirce ... 337 8.1 Nicaea to Constantinople: Standard View ... 337 8.2 Nicaea to Constantinople: Lateral View ... 342 8.3 Credo ... 348 Bibliography ... 355 Index of Names ... 369 Index of Subjects ... 373


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  • ISBN-13: 9789004187993
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
  • Depth: 25
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 0 mm
  • Weight: 716 gr
  • ISBN-10: 9004187995
  • Publisher Date: 24 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 382
  • Series Title: 2 Philosophical Studies in Science and Religion
  • Sub Title: Trinity, Evolution, and the Metaphysical Semiotics of C. S. Peirce
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