The author of this study invokes Peirce's logic in order to clarify the operational procedures of dialectic, foundational, and doctrinal theology. He argues that Peirce's theory of the normative sciences casts light on three forms of conversion: affective, intellectual, and moral conversion. From a normative account of the dynamics of five forms of conversion, he derives specific criteria for authenticating and calling into question both doctrinal statements about the content of religious faith and different theories of theological method. The third and final chapter tests the adequacy of the...
The author of this study invokes Peirce's logic in order to clarify the operational procedures of dialectic, foundational, and doctrinal theology. He ...
This theological autobiography presents the experiences and events that shaped the systematic theology, which author Donald Gelpi has been crafting since 1973. Gelpi's normative theology of conversion discusses five kinds of conversion: affective, intellectual, personal moral, political, and religious. Beginning with his boyhood in New Orleans, Closer Walk describes the early development of his religious perceptions, how his formation as a Jesuit taught him how to think and instilled a passion for the U.S. philosophical tradition, his major philosophical influences, and the influence of...
This theological autobiography presents the experiences and events that shaped the systematic theology, which author Donald Gelpi has been crafting si...
Alejandro R. Garcia-Rivera Donald L. Gelpi Alex Garcia-Rivera
2000 Catholic Press Association Award Winner
The claim has been made that we are gripped today in an aesthetic crisis" with considerable theological ramifications. Aesthetics, which has existed since the first human heart was moved by the influence of the beautiful, has played a major role, both implicit and explicit, in theological reflection. In The Community of the Beautiful Alejandro Garcia-Rivera draws from the North American philosophical tradition and Hispanic theological thought to propose a new aesthetic principle: a redemptive building of the community of the...
2000 Catholic Press Association Award Winner
The claim has been made that we are gripped today in an aesthetic crisis" with considerable...
The Gracing of Human Experience explores the different ways Christian thinkers have understood humanity in its relationship to divine grace and identifies the misconceptions which have in the past skewed the theological understanding of that relationship.Donald L. Gelpi, S.J., shows how to enlarge on the thought of Charles Sanders Peirce in order to formulate a metaphysics of experience. Gelpi implements the strategy suggested in the final chapter of Varieties of Transcendental Experience for regrounding theological thinking in a development of Peirce's semeiotic realism. He establishes a...
The Gracing of Human Experience explores the different ways Christian thinkers have understood humanity in its relationship to divine grace and identi...
Originally published by the Paulist Press in 1978, this book attempts to elaborate a foundational theology that could interpret the experience of Christian life in all of its social complexity. Father Gelpi reflects both on his personal experience as well as the principal texts of the Christian religion.
Originally published by the Paulist Press in 1978, this book attempts to elaborate a foundational theology that could interpret the experience of Chri...
