Metaphor, Analogy, and the Place of Places: Where Religion and Philosophy Meet (Provost) (The Provost Series)

223 Pages·2004·0.78 MB·English

by  Carl G. Vaught

METAPHOR, ANALOGY
and the PLACE OF PLACES
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here eligion
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CARL G. VAUGHT

Metaphor, Analogy, and the Place of Places

Metaphor, Analogy,
and the Place of Places
Where Religion and Philosophy Meet
Carl G. Vaught
Provost Series
Baylor University Press
Waco, Texas USA
©2004 by Baylor University Press
Waco, Texas 76798
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Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright
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Book Design by Diane Smith
Cover Design by Joan Osth
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Vaught, Carl G., 1939-
Metaphor, analogy, and the place of places : where religion and philosophy
meet / Carl G. Vaught.
p. cm. -- (Provost series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-932792-07-4 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Philosophy and religion. I. Title. II. Series.
B56.V38 2004
210--dc22
2004015372
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
For my colleagues in the
Department of Philosophy
at Baylor

Contents
Preface ix
List of Abbreviations xiii
PART ONE
The Relation Between Religion and Philosophy
1 The Origins, the Context, and the Language of Religion
and Philosophy 3
2 A New Conception of the History of Philosophy 15
3 Athens and Jerusalem 29
PART TWO
Augustine, Hegel, Heidegger, and Jaspers
4 The Rhetoric of Augustine’s Confessions 47
5 Immanence and Transcendence in Augustine’s Confessions 71
6 Hegel and the Problem of Difference 95
7 Being and Existenz in Heidegger and Jaspers 107
PART THREE
Mystery, Power, and Structure
8 The Quest for Wholeness 129
9 Being and God 141
10 Metaphor, Analogy, and the Nature of Truth 159
Notes 177
Index 189
vii