Introduction
I. Why Peirce, Why Christianity
II. Conversion to Logic
III. Conversion to Community
IV. Peirce’s Work for the Church: Waiting for God
V. Knowledge and Transformation
VI. Real Obedience: from Pragmatism to Pragmaticism
VII. Science and the Persistent Reality of God
Bibliography
Roger Ward is professor of philosophy at Georgetown College.
Roger Ward's research on the roots of Peirce's Christianity
produces great fruit for his readers -- namely a counter-narrative
to those Peirce scholars in Indianapolis and in Toronto who
continually conceal the significance of Peirce's Christian
convictions and ways-of-thinking. This book offers a helpful and
interesting contribution to American Philosophy, especially
concerning the religious nature of pragmatism. In my judgment, this
book ought to be taught or utilized in courses on American
Philosophy.
*Jacob L. Goodson, Southwestern College*
Working mainly with well-known materials, Roger Ward has given us
an astonishingly new vision of Peirce as a religious philosopher, a
philosopher who is religious. The long-term meaning of pragmaticism
is living life in obedience to the “thirdness of thirdness” as
characteristic of reality, then of the community’s long duration,
and only very fragmentarily of a person with an individual will.
Ward makes his argument in terms of the development of Peirce’s
logic through the years. But he relates this to Peirce’s explicit
relations to religion, his abandonment of his father’s Unitarianism
for Episcopalianism, his falling away from that with the end of his
first marriage, and finally the recovery of his Trinitarian faith
and life in the church until his death. This is a very deep vision
of Peirce.
*Robert Cummings Neville, Boston University*
Peirce challenges our methods of inquiry while science challenges a
religious world view. Roger Ward rises to these challenges,
providing in Peirce and Religion a coherent, provocative overview
of Peirce’s lifelong effort to reconcile his belief in science with
his enduring religious faith. A fresh, persuasive analysis of the
Trinitarian framework for Peirce’s triadic semiotic, logic, and
methods of purposeful inquiry and practice in the context of both
community and congregation.
*Robert King, Utah State University*
In the U.S. the relationship between science and religion remains
an perennially important question. In this book, Ward explores some
historical aspects of this relationship in the life and work of
Charles Peirce, one of North America’s most original thinkers. The
story he tells is both insightful and provocative. Anyone seeking
insight into the development of pragmatic thought in the U.S.
should have to wrestle with Ward’s reading of Peirce.
*Douglas Anderson, University of North Texas*
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