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By: Jacob L. Goodson

ISBN: 9781498537957
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The practice and task of the philosophical interpretation of Scripture has been treated as a conversation-stopper within the academy. This collection corrects that tendency by offering substantive accounts of the role of Scripture in the philosophical thought of fifteen American philosophers.


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By: Jacob L. Goodson

ISBN: 9781498539968
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Pragmatism is a philosophical school of thought emphasizing action, practices, and practical reasoning whereas prophecy is an ancient religious concept that requires belief in the reality of God. Although these two concepts seem to not be a natural fit with one another, the authors demonstrate why prophetic pragmatism is pragmatism at its best.


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By: Jacob L. Goodson

ISBN: 9780739190135
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In Narrative Theology and the Hermeneutical Virtues, Goodson offers a philosophical analysis of the arguments and tendencies of the narrative theologies of Hans Frei and Stanley Hauerwas. Goodson concludes that the movement of narrative theology needs the language and logic of the virtues in order for it to survive within the modern academy.


(Hardback)

By: Jacob L. Goodson

ISBN: 9781498523004
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book brings Jewish moral reasoning into conversation with Richard Rortys secular neo-pragmatist philosophy, which oftentimes comes across as anti-religious. The result is a type of hope for the future concerning the relationship between Judaism and secularism.


(Paperback)

By: Jacob L. Goodson

ISBN: 9781498571081
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This edited volume demonstrates that a virtue-centered approach to the ethical life is a consistent feature of William Jamess moral reasoning from the 1880s until his death. Yet, little else remains constant within his writings on these subjects, and this inconstancy furthers interest in his work over a century later.


(Hardback)

By: Jacob L. Goodson

ISBN: 9781498505147
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This edited volume demonstrates that a virtue-centered approach to the ethical life is a consistent feature of William James's moral reasoning from the 1880s until his death in 1910. Little else, however, seems constant within James's writings on moral philosophy and the ethical life, and this lack of constancy is what keeps James's work of interest more than a century later.