From Laws to Liturgy : An Idealist Theology of Creation.

Intro -- From Laws to Liturgy: An Idealist Theology of Creation -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Making the Theological Case for Idealism -- 1 Creation and Christian Metaphysics -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Mind-Matter Relation in Theology -- 1.3 How Platonism becomes Christian Idealism -- 1.4 The Immateriality of the Body A Suspicion of Gnosticism -- 1.5 Summary Argument and Chapter Outlines -- 2 A World as Liturgical Language -- 2.1 Introduction Cosmos and Eucharist -- 2.2 Angels in a Eucharistic Cosmos -- 2.3 Biblical Logos Cosmology -- 2.4 The Absolute Primacy of Christ -- 2.5 Angels as Liturgical Prophets and Governors -- 3 Early Idealist Theories of Creation -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Plotinus and the Critique of Aristotle's Categories -- 3.3 Gregory's Phenomenalistic Immaterialism -- 4 Dionysius on Hierarchy and Symbolic Theology -- 4.1 Introduction Mystical Ascent through Incongruous Images -- 4.2 The Cosmic Hierarchy -- 4.3 The Celestial Hierarchy and the Visible Creation Economy -- 5 Berkeley and the Immaterial Language of Embodiment -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Language Model of Vision -- 5.3 The Heterogeneity of the Senses and the Confinement of the Sensibles -- 5.4 Analogous Fields of Discourse -- 5.5 The Idealist Construction of Space -- Part 2: Christian Idealism: An Analytic Exposition -- 6 The Nexus of Mind and Matter in Perceptual Consciousness -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Realism, Idealism, and Perceptual Theory -- 6.3 An Ontology of Sensory Universals -- 6.4 Perceptual Error and Objecthood -- 6.5 An Idealist View of Physical Causality -- 7 The Construction of the Physical World -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Logical Construction of Things in Space -- 7.2.1 The Tactuo-Somatic Synthesis -- 7.2.2 The Tactuo-Visual Synthesis -- 7.2.3 Synthesis of the Total Sense Field.

7.3 Idealism and the Logical Structure of Physical Theory -- 7.4 Against the Claims of Physical Realism -- 7.5 Realism and Idealist Theology of Visible Creation -- 8 The Ultimate Reality as a Community of Minds -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Christian Theism and the Problem of Creative Laws -- 8.3 The Augustinian-Cartesian View of the Soul -- 8.4 The Logical Construction of Time -- 8.4.1 Intersubjective Causation -- 8.5 The Laws of Creation -- Part 3: The Theological Case for Christian Idealism Continued -- 9 The Cosmic Liturgy -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 The Celestial Scope of Natural Theology -- 9.2.1 The Aeon -- 9.2.2 The Aeon as the 'Day' of Creation -- 9.3 The Challenge to Physical Realism from Angelic Cosmology -- 9.4 The Unity of a Eucharistic Cosmos -- Bibliography -- Index Terms.

In From Laws to Liturgy Edward Epsen shows that, using an idealist metaphysics as a tool, one can give coherent theological expression to biblical revelation about creation in a manner that is conversant with explanatory issues in philosophy and science.

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