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Tables of Contents for The Problem of God in Modern Thought
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
PART I: THE CONTEXT FOR MODERN THOUGHT ABOUT GOD
Toward a Pluralistic Theology
3
48
Introduction: Skepticism and Metaphysics
3
15
The Regulative Starting Point for Metaphysics, and Beyond
18
33
Beyond the Cogito: In Search of Descartes's Theology of the Infinite
51
66
Introduction
51
7
The Methodological and Scientific Writings
58
19
The Foundations of Descartes's Theology in the Meditations
77
36
Conclusion
113
4
PART II: ON THE FATE OF PERFECT-BEING THEOLOGY
On the Very Idea of an Infinite and Perfect God
117
66
Intuiting the Finite, Intuiting the Infinite
118
12
On Thinking an Infinitely Perfect Being
130
6
The Concept of an Infinite Being
136
19
The Concept of a Perfect Being
155
22
Conclusion
177
6
Leibniz: Reaching the Limits of a Metaphysics of Perfection
183
80
Introduction
183
3
Establishing the Context
186
15
An Analytic Reconstruction of Leibnizian Theology
201
30
Leibniz between Atomism and Monism
231
25
Conclusions: The Perfection Argument against Atomism
256
5
Beyond Perfection?
261
2
Kant's Critique of Theology and Beyond
263
84
Kant's Critique of Metaphysics
263
12
Regulative Ideas after Kant
275
19
Theistic Metaphysics after Kant?
294
10
Kant on God and Infinity
304
29
Kant's Concepts of ``Part and Whole'' and ``Space and Time''
333
10
Conclusion
343
4
On Using Limit Notions: First Steps after Kant
347
40
Introduction
347
2
The Crisis of Knowledge in Metaphysics
349
10
Toward a Theology of Limit Notions
359
6
Fundamental Limit Notions
365
11
God as Limit Notion
376
6
Conclusion
382
5
PART III: TOWARD A THEOLOGY OF THE INFINITE
The Temptations of Immanence: Spinoza's One and the Birth of Panentheism
387
54
Spinoza's Ethics
392
9
Three Early Critics
401
8
Spinozism as Constructive Theology: The ``Spinoza Dispute''
409
29
Conclusion
438
3
Excursus: Limits of Divine Personhood: Fichte and the Atheism Debate
441
26
Fichte and Spinoza
443
5
The Atheism Dispute
448
3
Fichte's Later Philosophy
451
14
Conclusion
465
2
Beyond the ``God beyond God'': Schelling's Theology of Freedom
467
42
Tillich's Debt to Schelling
467
4
Schelling's Theory of God
471
10
Change in God
481
2
Duality in God
483
4
Infinity, Potentiality, and the Goodness of Creation
487
8
Toward a Theistic Metaphysics of Freedom
495
6
The Personality of God and the Limits of Philosophy
501
5
Conclusion
506
3
Index
509