Pragmatic Theology

Victor Anderson is Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics, Vanderbilt University, the Divinity School. He is the author of Beyond Ontological Blackness: An Essay in African American Religious and Cultural Criticism.

"A solid, scholarly, constructive advancement of the conversation among competing voices concerning the moral and spiritual issues facing us in America today is of paramount importance. This is such a book."Anderson's pragmatic solution to the problem of a public theology is important. This is a discussion which includes secular philosophy—an important point because the discussion is usually cast in terms of a public theology which addresses only religious pluralism, not the non-religious views or stance of atheists and agnostics and the non-religious generally." — Jerome A. Stone, William Rainey Harper College

• Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Pragmatic Secularization of Theology 2. The Pragmatic Reconstruction of Theology 3. The Vitalist Argument in Theology 4. Pragmatism and Religious Realism 5. Relational Value Theory in Theology 6. Pragmatism and Theology: Prospects of Rapprochement 7. Pragmatic Naturalism and Public Theology Conclusion Critical Bibliography Works Cited Index