An overview with terms and definitions -- Hale's philosophical relativism -- Lynch's ontological pluralism -- Goodman's irrealism -- Irrealism, nominalism, and properties -- Possibilities of the actual -- An argument for irrealistic pluralism -- Idealism and irrealism -- Toward a theory of truth -- Make/believing what is, and other world renderings -- Saving pluralism : why irrealism needs God -- The traditional Christian -- Christianity, realism, and logic -- The divine, its furniture, and virtual absolutes -- The many ways God is -- God and objectivity -- History, humans, and God : toward a Christian irrealist view of God's redemptive work -- Irrealism, worlds, and mystical experience : God as the final framework. |