Religion in a Pluralistic Age: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Philosophical Theology: 7 (American Liberal Religious Thought) - Tapa dura

Religion in a Pluralistic Age is a collection of selected papers presented at the Third International Conference on Philosophical Theology, which met in Bad Boll, Germany, in the summer of 1998. The conference was sponsored by the Highlands Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought, and its theme was «Public and Private Religion in a Pluralistic Age.» This theme explores interactions of public and private religion and ways in which both relate to an increasingly pluralistic age of diverse outlooks and forms of life. The Highlands Institute emphasizes the interface between theology and philosophy. It is especially concerned with theological efforts utilizing the American philosophical tradition, with the development of distinctively American religious thought, with themes relevant to the «Chicago School» of theology, and with naturalism in American religious thought.

The Editors: Donald A. Crosby is Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University. He received his Ph.D. in religion from Columbia University. In addition to articles in professional journals and chapters in books, he is the author of Horace Bushnell's Theory of Language: In the Context of Other Nineteenth-Century Philosophies of Language; Interpretive Theories of Religion; and The Specter of the Absurd: Sources and Criticisms of Modern Nihilism.
Charley D. Hardwick is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at American University in Washington, D.C. He received his Ph.D. in religion from Yale University. In addition to articles in professional journals and chapters in books, he is the author of Faith and Objectivity: Fritz Buri and the Hermeneutical Foundations of a Radical Theology; Religious Truth in the Absence of God; and Events of Grace: Naturalism, Existentialism, and Theology. A recipient of Danforth, Guggenheim, American Council of Learned Societies, and the Society for Values in Higher Education fellowships, he has also served as editor of the American Academy of Religion monograph series, Aids to the Study of Religion and Studies in Religion.