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50 beyond wishful thinking way to designate both communities of faith and their creeds, only in the eigh teenth and nineteenth c ...

beyond wishful thinking 51 religion. Th e scope and nature of what we now call religion changed when we began directly to addres ...

52 beyond wishful thinking their history: the demand to touch and to transform, in the light of their message, every facet of hu ...

beyond wishful thinking 53 mean by secularization is not that people have ceased to believe in some version of the dialectic bet ...

54 beyond wishful thinking orientations to existence have common, non- trivial characteristics, of form and of substance, despit ...

beyond wishful thinking 55 one that I propose to succeed them are not simply philosophies or worldviews, as these conventional c ...

56 beyond wishful thinking to grasp, all the while tormented and aroused by our desires and con- scious of a power that we are u ...

beyond wishful thinking 57 and vision provides a kind of answer to the incorrigible defects in our circumstance. Th e answer rec ...

58 beyond wishful thinking initial conditions of a set of phenomena to be explained and the laws of motion governing the working ...

beyond wishful thinking 59 need to form an attitude, implicit and unelaborated if not explicit and fully formed, to the most dis ...

60 beyond wishful thinking transformation. Th e world resists the prophecy. Th is re sis tance tests the truth of the faith. It ...

beyond wishful thinking 61 vision of the world and an imperative of existence that lies at the heart of religion, it degenerates ...

2. Overcoming the World Central idea, historical presence, and metaphysical vision Th e vision of the world embraced by this fi ...

overcoming the world 63 vision of impersonal, unifi ed, and universal being. Th is vision in turn inspires an ethic of selfl ess ...

64 overcoming the world statement of this worldview (not even Schopenhauer’s) has ever pro- vided a developed account of why or ...

overcoming the world 65 Th e strong point of this radical version of the metaphysics of the re- ality of the world is its notion ...

66 overcoming the world natural history: the coevolution of the phenomena and of the laws of nature governing them. It is only b ...

overcoming the world 67 must have a history and be, in principle, mutable. Th eir mutability is consistent with the stability th ...

68 overcoming the world complications that give an actual life its fullness. Such invulnerabil- ity as we attain risks being ach ...

overcoming the world 69 ting in which everything that we have reason to value is created or destroyed. Th e metaphysical extremi ...