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Michael S. Hogue / Meadville Lombard Theological School Life can only be understood as an aim at that perfection which the conditions of its environment allow. Alfred North Whitehead 1 For the pragmatist, the world's saviors are immanent, multiple, and ordinary. Gail Hamner 2 Introduction an finds himself living in an aleatory world," writes John Dewey, "his existence involves, to put it baldly, a gamble. The world is a scene of risk; it is uncertain, unstable, uncannily unstable."3 This fundamental ambiguity is compounded by the distinct conditions of our late modern, globalizing, postsecular world. Amidst the conditions of this world, the religious meanings, purposes, and desires that have traditionally oriented human life are being relativized; the boundaries of our religious and moral traditions, as a result of their passage through modernity and as an effect of their increasing cultural interconnectedness, have become more permeable to one another. Adding to these changes, some of our most conventional markers of identity, such as race, gender, and sexual orientation, are being deconstructed and reconstructed. We experience the world as simultaneously shrinking and expanding--our virtual and actual contacts with far-off places and peoples are more frequent, simultaneously deepening, and, oddly, familiarizing the
American Journal of Theology & Philosophy – University of Illinois Press
Published: Nov 22, 2013
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