Ultimates: Philosophical Theology, Volume One

Index

357 Index Abandonment, of self, 113–18 Abduction, xxi, 56 Abhinavagupta, 327 Abraham, 147, 154 Abrahamic religions, 125 Absolute, 195; Absolute Spirit, 188–89 Abstraction, and concreteness in philosophy, 128–29, 174–76; metaphysical versus reductionist, 130 Abstractness, of determinateness per se, 193 Abyss, 20, 222–25; mystical, 303, 309–12; mystical path of, 323–24 Accountability, in theology 16 Act of To Be, 26, 118, 181–84, 217–21, 258, 275, 292–93, 340 Act, of creation, 309 Actual occasions, 13, 176–66, 195 Actuality/potentiality, 181–82 Actualization, 3–4, 36–42, 197–99, 235–41 Adam, 274 Adaptive advantage, 101–02. See also Evolution Adepts, 251 Adepts. See virtuosity Adequacy, of metaphysics, xxi–xxii, 44, 331 Advaita Vedanta, 42, 107, 160, 231, 234, 260, 303 Aesthetic judgment, 196 Aesthetic judgment, 200 Aesthetic, new for our age, 165–66 Aesthetics, 183–86 Affirmation, 45 Affordances, 68 Afterlife, 242–44 Age, of persons in heaven, 242–43 Agency, 101–02; universal attribution in childhood, 254 Agents, supernatural, xix. See also Supernaturalism Alcorta, Candace S., 333 Alexander the Great, 55 Alienation, 25 Alive, 305 All under Heaven, 128 Allah, 10 Allan, George, 68 Almond, Gabriel A., 328 American Theological Society, xxv Analogy, 71–73, 321; of being, 118, 171, 180–84, 245–46; of human creativity, 217–18; of proportion and proper proportionality, 182–84; in Thomas Aquinas, 118 Analytic philosophy, xix, 14–15, 68, 326 Analytic pragmatism, 326 Anatman, 308 Anderson,Victor, 68 Angels, 274 Anger, 38 358 v Index Annales School, 156 Annihilation, 304–06, 311 Anselm, 113, 180 Anthropological ultimacy, 5, 107–08, 244 Anthropology, 7, 25, 110, 139; and colonialism 50–51; cultural, 82–83 Anthropomorphism, 27, 85108, 110–11, 119, 141, 147, 292, 296, 320 Anti-Semitism, 155 Apologetics, xviii–xix Apophatic theology, 2, 19–20, 33, 103, 108–09, 251, 303, 324 Appleby, R. Scott, 328 Applicability, 331 Applicability, 44 Applicability, xxi–xxii Appreciation, 241 Apsu, 126 Aquinas, Thomas, xxi, 5, 26, 34, 77, 86, 118, 130, 170, 180–84, 191, 217–21, 245–46, 258–62, 292–93, 326, 337–38, 340–41; intentionality in God, 181; Thomism, 130, 230 Arbitrariness, 17, 38, 222–23, 258, 260–62, 267–68, 276–79, 311, 323 Archeology, 7 Argument, xv–xvii, xxi; vs. argumentation, 56–57, like rope, not chain, 58, 287 Aristotelian tradition, 185 Aristotelianism, 55 Aristotle, 14–15, 34, 113, 170, 174, 182, 193, 196, 222, 234, 282, 306, 340 Arjuna, 116–19 Armentrout, Kenneth, xxv Armstrong, Karen, 330 Art (arts), vi, 5–6, 25, 58, 82, 87, 130, 200 Aryan traditions, 55 Asad, Talal, 4, 327, 329 Asceticism, 106–07 Aseity, divine, 274–75 Asherites, 291–92 Ashoka, 341 Assumptions, background and foreground, 46–47 Asymmetry, in ontological creative act, 222–25 Athleticism, 304–06 Atman, 39, 85–86, 115, 173–74, 256 Atomism, 194–95 Attachment, 47, 65, 70–71 Attention, in thinking ultimacy, 106, 299–300, 302 Augustine, 47, 243, 331, 340 Authenticity, xvii, 10, 20 Author of this book, described, 325 Authority, xv, xx, 31, 79 Auxier, Randall E., 333, 336 Avatars, 19116, 255, 315 Averroes, 340 Avicenna, 326 Awe, 17, 38, 284 Axial Age, 4, 16, 32–33, 55, 315, 330; religions, 41, 74, 79, 84–87, 113, 127, 1161–61, 145–48, 150–51, 294, 327 Babylonian religion, 126–27 Banana, 136, 142–43 Barrett, Nathaniel, 68, 333 Bartel, T. W., 326 Barth, Karl, xx–xxi, 17, 32, 149–50, 152, 157, 325, 327–28, 330, 337 Beauty, xv, 93, 108, 122, 131, 175, 280; glimpst from the corner of the eye, 12 Becoming, 235–41 Being (being-itself, ipsum esse), 21, 61, 77, 173–91, 245–47, 297, 321; analogical or univocal, 176, 180–84; as common to beings, 179–80, 184– 86, 246; density of, as value, 199–201; determinate or indeterminate, 171–72, 176, 184–91, 246–47; dialectic of, 176; as dynamic dialectic, 188–91; as first object of intellect, 180; one or many, 176–80; power of, 311; as property, 184–85; question of, 169–72; as totality, 186–91, 246; and unity, 174 Belief, 6; costliness of, 46; meaning of, 45–48; reasons for, 101–02; religious, xix, 6, 70, 45–48, 165–66; unconscious, 46 Bell, Catherine M., xix Bellah, Robert, 32, 330, 336 Index v 359 Benjamin, tribe of, and the Levite, 126–27 Berdyaev, Nicolas, 309, 342 Berger, Peter L., 29–33, 42, 48, 67, 109...