El. knyga: Peirce and Religion: Knowledge, Transformation, and the Reality of God

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 communitys long duration, and only very fragmentarily of a person with an individual will. Ward makes his argument in terms of the development of Peirces logic through the years. But he relates this to Peirces explicit relations to religion, his abandonment of his fathers 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 Peirces lifelong effort to reconcile his belief in science with his enduring religious faith. A fresh, persuasive analysis of the Trinitarian framework for Peirces 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 Americas 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 Wards reading of Peirce. -- Douglas Anderson, University of North Texas