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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454925103321

Autore

Corrington Robert S. <1950->

Titolo

A semiotic theory of theology and philosophy / / Robert S. Corrington [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000

ISBN

1-107-12078-0

0-511-00970-4

1-280-43262-4

0-511-17256-7

0-511-15139-X

0-511-31059-5

0-511-48764-9

0-511-04631-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 268 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

146

Soggetti

Philosophy of nature

Semiotics

Nature - Religious aspects

Semiotics - Religious aspects

Philosophical theology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-265) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1 The paradox of ''nature'' and psychosemiosis; CHAPTER 2 The sign vehicle and its pathways; CHAPTER 3 World semiosis and the evolution of meaning; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The concern of this work is with developing an alternative to standard categories in theology and philosophy, especially in terms of how they deal with nature. Avoiding the polemics of much contemporary reflection on nature, it shows how we are connected to nature through the unconscious and its unique way of reading and processing signs. Spinoza's key distinction between natura naturans and natura naturata serves as the governing framework for the treatise. Suggestions are



made for a post-Christian way of understanding religion. Robert S. Corrington's work represents the first sustained attempt to bring together the fields of semiotics, depth-psychology, pragmaticism, and a post-Monotheistic theology of nature. Its focus is on how signification functions in human and non-human orders of infinite nature. Our connection with the infinite is described in detail, especially as it relates to the use of sign systems.