List of Tables Preface Part I: Heuristics Preliminary Remarks 1. Problems of Definition 2. A Heuristic Definition of Religion 3.Theory of Religion in a Pragmatic Philosophical Theology 4. Modeling Ultimate Reality: God, Consciousness, and Emergence Part II: Pragmatics Preliminary Remarks 5. A Pragmatic Approach to Religious Experience 6. Semiotics versus Phenomenology: Existential and Hermeneutic Dimensions 7. Hermeneutic and Validity Dimensions of Religious Experience 8.

Self-Reliance and the Portability of Pragmatism Part III: Religious Studies Preliminary Remarks 9. Why All Theology Should Be Comparative 10. Does the Study of Religion Need Philosophy? 11. Some Recommendations for the Future of Liberal Theology 12. Naturalism: So Easily Wrong Part IV: Philosophical Theology Preliminary Remarks 13. A Respectful Alternative to Process Theology: A Letter of Grateful and Affectionate Response to David Ray Griffin's Whitehead ' s Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy: An Argument for Its Contemporary Relevance 14. The Triune God and Creation ex Nihilo , or "The One and the Many" Strikes Again 15. Perpetual Apophasis and the Existential Implosion of Worldviews 16.

Ultimate Realities for the Sciences and Humanities Part V: Players Preliminary Remarks 17. John E. Smith: Doing Something with American Philosophy 18. Richard Rorty: Pragmatism, Metaphysics, Comparison, and Realism 19. William Desmond's Philosophical Theology 20. Nancy Frankenberry: Philosopher of Religion, Radical Empiricist, Herald of Contingency Index.