Robert Cummings Neville
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Robert Cummings Neville (born May 1, 1939 in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.) is an American
systematic philosopher and theologian, author of numerous books and papers, and for much of his career was Dean of the Boston University School of Theology
. J. Harley Chapman and Nancy Frankenberry, editors of a festchrift—a collection of critical essays written in Neville's honor—entitled Interpreting Neville, consider him to be “one of the most significant philosophers and theologians of our time".” Neville was Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and has taught at Yale, Fordham, and the State University of New York Purchase. He currently (April, 2011) holds three full professorships at Boston University: in philosophy, religion, and theology. He was granted a Doctorate honoris causa by the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Far Eastern Studies in 1996. Neville is a past president of the American Academy of Religion, of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy, of the Metaphysical Society of America
, of the Association of United Methodist Theological Schools, and of the Trustees of the Boston Theological Institute. He is a former member of the Accrediting Commission of the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada and of the Commission on Theological Education of the United Methodist Church. Neville is currently a member of the editorial boards of Soundings and The Journal of the American Academy of Religion
, and is the Associate Editor for Behavioral and Neurological Articles for The Encyclopedia of Bioethics. He was formerly on the editorial board of the Quarterly Review. An ordained elder in the Missouri East Conference of the United Methodist Church, Neville has pastored in Missouri and New York, and was Boston University chaplain from 2005 to 2009. He is married to Beth Neville, with whom he has three children and several grandchildren. An accomplished artist (emphasizing oil and watercolor paintings, pen and ink illustrations), Beth creates much of the artwork for Robert Neville's books. Several color plates of her work appear in his Symbols of Jesus.
Neville's most significant scholarly contribution is arguably his metaphysical theory of being (or being-itself): a new theory that involves an original solution to the ancient problem of the one and the many. He developed this theory for his PhD dissertation at Yale University
(graduated 1963), of which his first book, God the Creator, constitutes a substantial revision. Exploring the implications of that theory has enabled him to produce a philosophy of nature that rivals Alfred North Whitehead's in scope and power, as can be seen from his three-volume Axiology of Thinking . The first volume in that trilogy, Reconstruction of Thinking (1981), was hailed by Donald W. Sherburne—editor of the corrected edition of Whitehead's Process and Reality--as "a truly important book. It is the first genuinely neo-Whiteheadian offering on a large, systematic scale." The second volume of the trilogy, Recovery of the Measure: Interpretation and Nature (1989), was also well received. The prominent Confucian scholar and philosopher David L. Hall wrote of it as follows: "Because of its timeliness, the brilliance of its arguments, and the profundity of its conclusions, there is good reason to believe that this work will shortly become the focus of genuine and widespread discussion. With the publication of this latest installment of his Axiology of Thinking, Neville emerges as one of the strongest voices in American philosophy." The complexity, systematic breadth, and analytic depth of Neville's thought is most evident in this second volume of his trilogy. To provide the cosmological setting for his theory of interpretation—a theory of interpretation designed to show how truth claims may be tested against the world of nature (in contrast to modern and postmodern theories)--Neville first develops theories of truth (chapters 1 and 3), participation (chapter 4), identity (chapter 5), being (chapter 6), value (chapter 7), harmony (chapter 8), time and temporal things (chapters 10 and 11), space and motion (chapter 11), causation (chapter 12), network and content meaning (chapters 13 and 14), and intentionality (chapter 15).
Neville is also well known as a religious studies scholar, especially for his comparative work. He has authored several books in the field of comparative religion: The Tao and the Daimon (1981), Behind the Masks of God (1991), Boston Confucianism (2000), Ritual and Deference (2008), and Realism in Religion (2009). In addition, Neville is the editor of three volumes that resulted from a "Comparative Religious Ideas Project" funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Henry Luce Foundation, and Boston University: Religious Truth, Ultimate Realities, and The Human Condition, (all 2001). The latter three texts present a theory of comparison that uses C. S. Peirce's notion of "vagueness" to develop what Neville calls vague categories of comparison. (A vague category is any category of thought that is left open to mutually incompatible specifications so as to allow for interpretations that might conflict with each other. For example, all swans are black specifies the vague proposition all swans are colored in a manner that contradicts all swans are white.) Neville argues that the judicious use of such categories enables comparisons to be made in such a way that respects the integrity and diversity of religious traditions.
Neville's comparative work in religion and his systematic philosophy come together in numerous works of theology that attempt to interpret the Christian tradition in a manner that not only respects but even accommodates non-Christian voices. He is encouraged in this attempt by an interpretation of the doctrine of creation ex nihilo that he developed in his first book, God the Creator (1968). In that book, Neville argues that to be is to be determinate, that to be determinate is to contrast with other determinations in a context of mutual relevance, and that the ultimate context of mutual relevance—that which grounds the many determinations of being—is pure indeterminacy. But if all things are what they are by virtue of their contrast with indeterminacy, then they come to be out of nothing: they are created ex nihilo. According to the prominent Whiteheadian philosopher Lewis Ford, Neville's is one of the "two most distinctive theories of creation in the twentieth century, both in terms of what it means to bring actualities into being, and in terms of funding the relationship between God and the world in its widest perspective." (The other theory Ford has in mind is Alfred North Whitehead's.) Though creation ex nihilo is typically associated with personalist varieties of theism, Neville's Creator is the purely indeterminate ground of beings. For this reason, he is encouraged to explore the possibility of Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian parallels in such texts as The Tao and the Daimon (1982), and Behind the Masks of God (1991). He is currently (April 2011) writing a trilogy of theological texts, the first installment of which was published in 2006 under the title, On the Scope and Truth of Theology: Theology as Symbolic Engagement. His other works of theology include Creativity and God, Symbols of Jesus, A Theology Primer, and The Truth of Broken Symbols (the last of which is as much a religious studies as a theological work). Neville's theology is critically engaged by numerous authors in a festschrift entitled, Theology in Global Context: Essays in Honor of Robert Cummings Neville (2004), edited by Amos Yong and Peter Heltzel.
Robert Neville is a proponent of Confucianism
as a world philosophy. Together with several scholars from the Boston area of the United States—especially including Tu Weiming of Harvard University—Neville encourages the development of what has come to be called "Boston Confucianism." As its name suggests, Boston Confucianism is a "non-East Asian" expression of the Confucian tradition. Neville has produced several books devoted to Confucian themes, including one that argues at length for the legitimacy and exhibits the vitality and importance of Boston Confucianism: Boston Confucianism: Portable Tradition in the Late-Modern World (2000). His contributions to Chinese philosophy have resulted in his being given an honorary Chinese name: NAN Lo Shan.
AUTHORED BOOKS
Neville, Robert Cummings. 1992. God the Creator: On the Transcendence and Presence of God. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. [Second edition of the same title published in 1968 by University of Chicago Press, with a new Preface]
———1974. The Cosmology of Freedom. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
———1980. Creativity and God: A Challenge to Process Theology. New York: Seabury Press.
———1981. Reconstruction of Thinking. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
———1982. The Tao and the Daimon: Segments of a Religious Inquiry. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
———1987. The Puritan Smile: A Look Toward Moral Reflection. New York, NY: SUNY Press.
———1989a. Recovery of the Measure: Interpretation and Nature. New York, NY: SUNY Press.
———1989b. Soldier, Sage, Saint. Fordham University Press.
———1991a. Behind the Masks of God: An Essay Toward Comparative Theology. New York, NY: SUNY Press.
———1991b. A Theology Primer. New York, NY: SUNY Press.
———1992a. The Highroad Around Modernism. Albany, NY: SUNY Press
———1993. Eternity and Time’s Flow. New York, NY: SUNY Press.
———1995. Normative Cultures. New York, NY: SUNY Press.
———1996. The Truth of Broken Symbols. New York, NY: SUNY Press.
———1999. The God Who Beckons: Theology in the Form of Sermons. Nashville: Abingdon press.
———2000. Boston Confucianism: Portable Tradition in the Late-Modern World. New York, NY: SUNY Press.
———2001. Symbols of Jesus: A Christology of Symbolic Engagement. Cambridge University Press.
———2002. Religion in Late Modernity. New York, NY: SUNY Press.
———2006. On the Scope and Truth of Theology: Theology as Symbolic Engagement. New York: T&T Clark.
———2008. Ritual and Deference: Extending Chinese Philosophy in a Comparative Context. New York, NY: SUNY Press.
———2009. Realism in Religion: A Pragmatist’s Perspective. New York, NY: SUNY Press.
EDITED BOOKS
———1975. Operating on the Mind: The Psychosurgery Conflict, edited, with Willard Gaylin and Joel Meister. New York: Basic Books.
———1978'. Encyclopedia of Bioethics, Associate Editor, for the Behavioral and Neurological Sciences. Warren Reich, Editor-in-Chief. New York: Macmillan-Free Press.
———1985. T’ai-Chi Ch’uan: Body and Mind in Harmony: The Integration of Meaning and Method. By Sophia Delza. Revised edition, edited with a Foreword by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press.
———1987. New Essays in Metaphysics. Albany: State University of New York Press.
———1996. The T’ai-Chi Ch’uan Experience: Reflections and Perceptions on Body-Mind Harmony. By Sophia Delza, edited with a “Foreword” by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press
———1997. Evangelism: Crossing Boundaries, an issue of the Circuit Rider, February, edited by Robert Cummings Neville.
———1997. The Recovery of Philosophy in America: Essays in Honor of John Edwin Smith. Edited with Thomas P. Kasulis. Albany: State University of New York Press.
———2001. The Human Condition: A Volume in the Comparative Religious Ideas Project. Foreword by Peter L. Berger. Albany: State University of New York Press.
———2001. Ultimate Realities: A Volume in the Comparative Religious Ideas Project. Foreword by Tu Wei-ming. Albany: State University of New York Press.
———2001. Religious Truth: A Volume in the Comparative Religious Ideas Project. Foreword by Jonathan Z. Smith. Albany: State University of New York Press.
———2005. Acondicao Humana: Um Tema Para Religioes Comparadas. A translation into Portuguese of The Human Condition, with a Preface by the Brasilian editor and translator, Eduardo Rodrigues da Cruz. Sao Paulo: Paulus Press.
ARTICLES AND CRITICAL STUDIES
"Man's Ends," Review of Metaphysics, 16/l (September 1962), 26-44.
"Ehman's Idealism," Review of Metaphysics, 17/4 (June 1964), 617-622.
"Some Historical Problems about the Transcendence of God," Journal of Religion, 47 (January 1967), 1-9.
"A Critical Study of Edward G. Ballard's Socratic Ignorance: An Essay on Platonic Self-Knowledge," International Philosophical Quarterly, 7 (June 1967), 340-356. "Reply," The Christian Scholar, 50/3 (Fall 1967), 324-325.
"Intuition," International Philosophical Quarterly, 7 (December 1967), 556-590.
"Improving What We Are," Fordham Magazine, 2 (March 1968), 18-23.
"Can God Create Men and Address Them Too?", Harvard Theological Review, 61 (1968), 603-623.
"Current Issues in Christian Ecumenism", World Order, (Winter 1968-69).
"Creation and the Trinity," Theological Studies, 30 (March 1969), 3-26.
"Nine Books By and About Teilhard," Journal of the American Academy of Religion
, (1969), 71-82.
"Father Gibson's Pop Culture," Commonweal, (October 31, 1969).
"Neoclassical Metaphysics and Christianity: A Critical Study of Ogden's Reality of God," International Philosophical Quarterly, 9 (December 1969), 605-624.
"Whitehead on the One and the Many," Southern Journal of Philosophy, 7 (Winter 1969-70), 387-393.
"The Impossibility of Whitehead's God for Theology," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1970, 130-140.
"The Faith of Easter," The Lamp, 58 (March 1970).
"The Social Importance of Philosophy," Abraxas, 1/1 (Fall 1970), 31-45.
"Paul Weiss's Philosophy in Process," Review of Metaphysics, 24 (December 1970), 276-301.
"Genetic Succession, Time, and Becoming," Process Studies, 1/3 (Fall 1971), 194-198.
"Where Do the Poets Fit In?: A Study of B. F. Skinner's Beyond Freedom and Dignity", Hastings Center Report, 3 (December 1971), 6-8.
"The Cumulative Impact of Behavior Control," Hastings Center Report, 2 (September 1971), 12-13.
"Experience and Philosophy: A Review of Hartshorne's Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method," Process Studies, 2 (Fall 1972), 49-67.
"Response to Ford's `Neville on the One and the Many'," Southern Journal of Philosophy, 10/1 (Spring 1972), 85-86.
"Contemporary Schools of Metascience by Gerard Radnitzky: A Critical Review," International Philosophical Quarterly, 12/1 (March 1972), 131-136.
"Knowledge and Being: Comments on Griesbach and Reck," The Review of Metaphysics, 25 (June 1972), 40-46.
"The Limits of Freedom and the Technologies of Behavior Control," The Human Context, (Winter 1972), 433-446.
"Creativity and Fatigue in Public Life," in Toothing-Stones: Rethinking the Political, edited by Robert E. Meagher. Chicago: The Swallow Press, 1972. pp. 144–58.
"A Metaphysical Argument for a Wholly Empirical Theology," in God: Knowable and Unknowable, edited by Robert J. Roth, S.J. New York: Fordham University Press, 1972.
"Statutory Law and the Future of Justice," The American Journal of Jurisprudence, 1972, 92-110.
"The Contours of Responsibility: A New Model," with Harold F. Moore and William Sullivan, Man and World, 5/4 (November 1972), 392-421.
"Blood Money: Should a Rich Nation Buy Plasma from the Poor," with Peter Steinfels, Hastings Center Report, 2/6 (December 1972), 8-10.
"The Physical Manipulation of the Brain: A Conference Report," edited. A Hastings Center Report, 1973. Republished in Dissent, Summer, 1973).
"Brain Surgery in Aggressive Epileptics: Social and Ethical Implication," with Vernon H. Mark. Journal of the American Medical Association
, 225 (11/12/73), 765-772.
Reprinted in Physiology of Aggression and Implications for Control: An Anthology of Readings, edited by Kenneth Evan Moyer. New York: Raven Press, 1976, pp. 307–320.
Reprinted in Hunt, R., and Arras, J., Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine. Palo Alto, CA.:Mayfield, 1977, pp. 383–402.
"Behavior Control: Need for New Myths," Engage/Social Action, 1/10 (October 1973).
"Specialties and Worlds," Hastings Center Studies, 2/1 (January 1974).
"Pots and Black Kettles: A Philosopher's Perspective on Psychosurgery," Boston University Law Review, 54 (April 1974).
"Controlling Behavior through Drugs," edited with an introduction, Hastings Center Studies, 2/1 (January 1974), 65-112.
"Vanity and Time," The Cord, (April 1974).
"A Study of Charles E. Winquist, The Transcendental Imagination," in Process Studies, 5/1 (Spring 1975), 49-60.
"Teaching the Meno and the Reformation of Character," Teaching Philosophy 1/2 (Fall, 1975) 119-21.
"Gene Therapy and the Ethics of Genetic Therapeatics," Proceedings of the New York Academy of Science, 1975.
"Freedom's Bondage," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1976, 1-13
"In Defense of Process," in Paul Weiss, First Considerations. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1977, 208-222.
"Pluralism and Finality in Structures of Existence," in John Cobb's Theology in Process, edited by David Ray Griffin and Thomas J. J. Altizer. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1977, 67-83.
"Defining Death," in Human Life: Problems of Birth, of Living, and of Dying, edited by William Bier, S.J. New York: Fordham University Press, 1977, 181-191.
"Environments of the Mind", in Mental Health: Philosophical Perspectives, edited by H. T. Engelhardt, Jr., and S. F. Spicker. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel, 1977, 169-176.
"Suffering, Guilt, and Responsibility," Journal of Dharma, 2/3 (July 1977), 248-259. Reprinted as "Suffering and Evil," by Stauros International, 1981.
"Wang Yang-Ming's Inquiry on the Great Learning," Process Studies, 7/4 (Winter 1977), 217-237.
"Behavior Control," in Encyclopedia of Bioethics. New York: Macmillan-Free Press, 1978, pp. 85–93.
"Drug Use, Abuse, and Dependence," in Encyclopedia of Bioethics. New York: Macmillan-Free Press, 1978, pp. 326–333.
"Psychosurgery," Encyclopedia of Bioethics. New York: Macmillan-Free Press, 1978, pp. 1387–1391.
"The Taste of Death," in Philosophical Aspects of Thanatology, edited by Florence M. Hetzler and Austin H. Kutscher. New York: Arno Press, 1978. Vol. I, 177-189.
"Sterilization of the Retarded: In Whose Interest? The Philosophical Arguments," Hastings Center Report, 8/3 (June 1978), 33-37.
"Critical Study of Psychosurgery and the Medical Control of Violence: Autonomy and Deviance," by Samuel I. Shuman, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 48/4 (October 1978), 732-736.
"Philosophic Perspectives on Freedom of Inquiry," University of Southern California Law Review, 51/5 (July 1978), 1115-1129.
"On the National Commission: A Puritan Critique of Consensus Ethics," in Hastings Center Report, 9/2 (April 1979) 22-27.
"Reply to Philip H. Rhinelander's `Critique of the Puritan Ethic'," in Hastings Center Report, 9/6 (December 1979) 49-50.
"Authority and Experience in Religious Ethics," in Logos, 1/1 (1980) 79-92.
"Metaphysics," in Social Research, 47/4 (Winter, 1980) 686-703.
"From Nothing to Being: The Notion of Creation in Chinese and Western Thought," in Philosophy East and West, 30/1 (January, 1980) 21-34.
"Various Meanings of Privacy: A Philosophical Analysis," in Privacy: A Vanishing Value, ed. by Wm. Bier, S.J., New York: Fordham University Press, 1980, pp. 22–33
"The Space of Freedom," in Notebook, (Fall, 1980) 17-21.
"The Art of Beth Neville," in an Exhibition Catalogue, April, 1980.
"The Sun and the City," in an Exhibition Catalogue, April, 1980.
"Sterilization of the Mildly Mentally Retarded Without Their Consent: The Philosophical Arguments," in Mental Retardation and Sterilization: A Problem of Competency and Paternalism. Edited by Ruth Macklin and Willard Gaylin. New York: Plenum Press, 1981. pp. 181–193.
"The Buddha's Birthday," in The Joong-Ang Daily News, Thursday, May 7, 1981, p. 15. Translated into Korean by Sung-bae Park.
"The Holy Spirit as God," in Is God God? Edited by Axel D. Steuer and James Wm. McClendon, Jr. Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, 1981. pp. 235–64.
"Concerning Creativity and God: A Response," in Process Studies, 11/1 (Spring, 1981) 1-10. In reference to "Three Responses to Neville's Creativity and God," by Charles Hartshorne, John B. Cobb,Jr., and Lewis S. Ford, in Process Studies, 10/3-4 (Fall-Winter, 1980) 73-88.
"Missions On an Ecumenical Globe," Jeevadhara, 13/77 (September, 1983), 335-342.
"Responsibility, Rehabilitation, and Drugs: Health Care Dilemmas," with Jay Schulkin, in Ethical Problems of the Nurse-Patient Relationship, edited by Catherine P. Murphy and Howard Hunter. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1983, pp. 166–182.
"Whitehead on the One and the Many," reprinted with extensive alterations in Explorations in Whitehead's Philosophy, edited by Lewis S. Ford and George L. Kline. New York: Fordham University Press, 1983, pp. 257–271.
"Ethics in Medical Donations," abstracted in American Paralysis Association/Research in Progress, 6/Sept. 1983, pp. 3ff.
"The State's Intervention in Individuals' Drug Use: A Normative Account," in Feeling Good and Doing Better, edited by Thomas H. Murray, Willard Gaylin, and Ruth Macklin) Clifton, N.J.: Humana Press, 1984), pp. 65–80.
"Buddhism and Process Philosophy," in Buddhism and American Thinkers, edited by Kenneth K. Inada and Nolan P. Jacobson (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984) pp. 121–42.
"New Metaphysics for Eternal Experience: A Critical Review of Steve Odin's Process Metaphysics and Hua-Yen Buddhism," in the Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 11/2 (June, 1984), pp. 185–97.
"The Valuable and the Meaningful: A Critical Study of Robert Nozick's Philosophical Explanations," in Modern Age, 27/3-4 (Summer-Fall, 1983), pp. 322–25.
"Body, Mind, and Health in Salvation," in Listening, 19/2 (Spring, 1984), pp. 91–102.
"Uncertain Irony," in Process Studies, 14/1, (Spring, 1984), pp. 49–58.
"Philosophy and the Question of God," International Philosophical Quarterly, 25/1 (March, 1985), pp. 51–62.
"Wang Yang-ming and John Dewey on the Ontological Question," Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 12 (1985), pp. 283–295.
"From legumes a la Grecque to bouillabaisse in early Taoism," Philosophy East and West, 35/4 (October, 1985), pp. 431–443.
"Hegel and Whitehead on Totality: The Failure of a Conception of System," in Hegel and Whitehead: Contemporary Perspectives on Systematic Philosophy, edited by George R. Lucas, Jr. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986, pp. 86–108.
"The Scholar-Official As a Model for Ethics," Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 13/2 (June, 1986), pp. 185–201.
"John E. Smith as Jeremiah," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 22/3 (Summer, 1986), pp. 258–271.
"Comments on Girardot's `Response'," Philosophy East and West, 36 (July, 1986), pp. 271–273.
"A Thesis Concerning Truth," Process Studies, 5/2 (Summer, 1986), pp. 127–136.
"On the Relation of Christian to Other Philosophies," in Being and Truth: Essays in Honour of John Macquarrie, edited by Alistair Kee and Eugene T. Long. London: SCM Press, 1986. pp. 276–292.
"Behavior Control," reprinted in an edited version from The Encyclopedia of Bioethics in The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Ethics, edited by James F. Childress and John MacQuarrie. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1986. pp. 55–57.
"Achievement, Value, and Structure," in Creativity and Common Sense: Essays in Honor of Paul Weiss, edited by Thomas Krettek. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987. pp. 124–144.
"Contributions and Limitations of Process Philosophy," in Process Studies (Winter, 1987), 16/4, pp. 283–298; abstracted in Journal of Philosophy, (Fall 1984), pp. 621–22.
"Sketch of a System," in New Essays in Metaphysics, edited by Robert C. Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987.
"Units of Change--Units of Value," Philosophy East and West 37/2 (April, 1987), pp. 131–134. Reprinted in Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in Environmental Philosophy, edited by J. Baird Callicott and Roger T. Ames. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. pp. 145–49.
"The Depths of God," in Journal of the American Academy of Religion
66/1 (Spring, 1988), 1-24.
"Motion in Causal Agency," in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 2/3 (New Series, 1988), 175-191.
"Beyond Production and Class: A Process Project in Economic Theory," in - Economic Life, edited by W. Widick Schroeder and Franklin I. Gamwell (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1988), 141-163.
"Between Chaos and Totalization," in Harmony and Strife, edited by Robert Allinson and Liu Shu-hsien. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 1988, pp. 49–58.
"A Christian Response to Shu-hsien Liu and Pei-jung Fu," in Religious Issues and Interreligious Dialogues: An Analysis and Sourcebook of Developments Since 1945, edited by Charles Wei-hsun Fu and Gerhard E. Spiegler. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989, pp. 555–570.
"The Chinese Case in a Philosophy of World Religions," in Understanding the Chinese Mind: The Philosophical Roots. Edited by Robert E. Allinson. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1989. pp. 48–74.
"Confucian-Christian Dialogue," in China Notes, 27/2 (Spring 1989), pp. 524–528.
"Freedom, Tolerance, and Puritan Commitment" in On Freedom, edited by Leroy S. Rouner. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1989. pp. 59–76. “Value, Courage, and Leadership,” in The Review of Metaphysics, 43/1(September 1989). pp. 3–26.
"Neville's Review of The Boston Personalist Tradition," with Rufus Burrow, Jr., in The Personalist Forum, 5/2 (Fall 1989), pp. 145–147.
"Individuation in Christianity and Confucianism," in Ching Feng 32/1 (March 1989), pp. 3–23. Reprinted in Confucian-Christian Encounters in Historical and Contemporary Perspective, edited by Peter K. H. Lee. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellon Press, 1991, pp. 274–294.
"The Call to and Practice of Ordained Ministry." Tower Notes (Spring 1990, No.1). Republished as "The Apostolic Character of Ordained Ministry," in Quarterly Review, Winter, 1990, pp. 1–18.
"Technology and the Richness of the World," in Technology and Religion, edited by Frederick Ferre, Vol 10 of Research in Philosophy and Technology. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1990. pp. 185–204.
"World Community and Religion," in Ilyu munmyong gwa Won Bulgyo sasang [Civilization of Mankind and the Thought of Won Buddhism]. Korea: Won'gwangch'ulp'ansa [Won'gwang Publishing Co.], 1991. pp. 1565–1592.
"Time, Temporality, and Ontology," in The Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne. Edited by Lewis Edwin Hahn. The Library of Living Philosophers, volume 20. Lasalle, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Company, 1991. pp. 377–395.
"On the Architecture of No-Man's Land: A Response to Hartt and Gustafson," Soundings, 73/4 (Winter 1990), 701-718.
"On Buddha's Answer to the Silence of God." Philosophy East and West, 41/4 (October 1991) 557-570.
"The End of Philosophy in the West," in Sino-American Relations, 18/3 (Autumn 1992), pp. 62–80.
"Body-Thinking in Chinese Philosophy," in Journal of National Chung Cheng University, 3/1 (October, 1992) 149-170.
"Body-Thinking in Western Philosophy," in Journal of National Chung Cheng University, 3/1 (October, 1992) 171-191.
“The Puritan Ethic in Confucianism and Christianity,” in Pacific Theological Review, XXV-XXVI (1992–1993), pp. 30–32.
"The Role of Religious Studies in Theological Education," School of Theology at Claremont Occasional Paper Number 8, 2/4 (December, 1992), 1-8.
"The Symbiotic Relation of Philosophy and Theology," in Philosophical Imagination and Cultural Memory: Appropriating Historical Traditions, edited by Patricia Cook (Durham: Duke University Press, 1993), pp. 149–164. Portions published also in The Highroad around Modernism, chapter 8.
"Chung-kuo che-hsueh te shen-t'i ssu-wei," translation by Yang Ru-pin of "Body-Thinking in Chinese Philosophy," in Chung-kuo ku-tai ssu-hsiang chung te ch'I lun nai shen-t'i kuan [Ancient Chinese Interpretations of Matter-Energy and the Body], edited by Yan Ru-pin (Taipei, Taiwan: Chu-liu Publishing Company, 1993) 193-212.
"World Community and Religion," a shortened version in English of the article above with the same title, in The Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 29/3-4 (Summer-Fall, 1992), pp. 368–382.
"Religious Studies and Theological Studies: The 1992 Presidential Address to the American Academy of Religion," in Journal of the American Academy of Religion
, 61/2 (Summer 1993), pp. 185–200.
"Religious Learning beyond Secularism," in Can Virtue Be Taught?, edited by Barbara Darling-Smith. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993.
“God the Witness,” sermon on Micah 1:2; 2:1-10; Luke 17:11-19; 2 Timothy 2:8-15, excerpted and commented on in Donald K. McKim’s The Bible in Theology and Preaching: How Preachers Use Scripture. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1994. pp. 112–114.
“Confucianism as a World Philosophy.” Presidential Address for the 8th International Conference on Chinese Philosophy, Beijing, 1993. Journal of Chinese Philosophy 21 (1994)5-25.
“Report on the Roundtable ‘Chinese Philosophy at the Turn of the Century’” at the Nineteenth World Congress of Philosophy, Moscow, Russia, August 23, 1993. Journal of Chinese Philosophy 21 (1994) 67-69.
“The Human Predicament: Its Changing Image: A Study in Comparative Religion and History.” by Jaroslav Krejci, assisted by Anna Krejcova, reviewed in Philosophy East & West 44/4 (October 1994), pp. 741–743.
“Confucian-Christian Incompatibilities,” in Ching Feng, 37/4 (November 1994), pp. 195–216.
“Feature Review: Discourse and Practice, edited by Frank Reynolds and David Tracy, in Philosophy East & West, 45/1 (January 1995), pp. 115-119.
“The Classical Challenge,” in Christianity and Civil Society: Theological Education for Public Life, edited by Rodney L. Petersen (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1995), pp. 150–160.
“Truth and Tradition” in Truth and Tradition: A Conversation about the Future of United Methodist Theological Education, edited by Neal F. Fisher (Nashville: Abingdon, 1995), pp. 37–58.
“Truth’s Debt to Value,” by David Weissman, a Review in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 69-1 (Winter 1995), pp. 116–119.
“Bostonskoye konfutsianstvo” - korni vostochnoi kulturyi no zapadnoi pochve (“Boston Confucianism” - the Roots of Eastern Culture on the Western Soil), in Problemyi Dalnego Vostoke (Far Eastern Affairs). Translated with a commentary by A. Lomanov (p. 136-137), text on pp. 138–149. Moscow, 1995, Issue # I.
“Religions, Philosophies, and Philosophy of Religion,” in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 38 (1995), special volume “God, Reason, and Religions on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of this Journal,” edited by Eugene Long, 165-181.
“The Last Words of Sisera: A Libretto,” in Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal , 78/3-4 (Fall/Winter 1995), 439-462.
“Paul Weiss’s Theology,” in The Philosophy of Paul Weiss, edited by Lewis Edwin Hahn. The Library of Living Philosophers, Volume 23. LaSalle, Illinois: Open Court, 1995. pp. 389–414.
“Some Confucian-Christian Comparisons,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 22 (1995) 379-400. An academic revision and expansion of “Confucian-Christian Incompatibilities,” above.
“The Temporal Illusion of Eternity: a Pragmatic Theory of Spiritual Insight,” in Weisheit und Wissenschaft, edited by Tilman Borsche and Johann Kreuzer. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1995. pp. 129–38.
“A Confucian Construction of a Self-Deceivable Self,” in Self and Deception: A Cross-cultural Philosophical Enquiry. Edited by Roger T. Ames and Wimal Dissanayake. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. pp. 201–217.
“How Far We Are from a Confession: Tasks for Theological Education in Church and Society,” Quarterly Review 16/2 (Summer 1996), 117-125.
“The Emergence of Historical Consciousness,” in Spirituality and the Secular Quest, edited by Peter H. Van Ness. volume 22 of World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest. New York: Crossroad, 1996. pp. 129–156.
“Kitaiskaya Filosophiya v sovremennom mire (Chinese Philosophy in the Contemporary World)” in Problemyi Dalnego Vostoka 4/96 (Fall 1996), pp. 49–55.
“Puritanskya Eteka c Konfusianstvo a Christianstvo,” translation by Alexander Lomanov of “The Puritan Ethic in Confucianism and Christianity,” in Chinese Philosophy and Chinese Civilization, The Second All-Russian Academic Conference, Moscow, Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, May 22–24, 1996.
“Uniting Two Images” and “Evangelism Across Boundaries” in the Circuit Rider, February 1997.
“Commentary on the AAS Panel: Shun, Bloom, Cheng, and Birdwhistell,” in Philosophy East & West, 47/1 (January 1997), 67-74.
“Reflections on Philosophic Recovery,” in The Recovery of Philosophy in America, edited by Thomas P. Kasulis and Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997, pp. 1–10.
“American Philosophy’s Way around Modernism (and Postmodernism),” in The Recovery of Philosophy in America, edited by Thomas P. Kasulis and Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997, pp. 251–268.
“John E. Smith and Metaphysics,” in Reason, Experience, and God: John E. Smith in Dialogue. Edited by Vincent M. Colapietro. New York: Fordham University Press, 1997.
“Political Tolerance in an Age of Renewed Religious Warfare,” in Philosophy, Religion, and the Question of Intolerance. Edited by Mehdi Amin Razavi and David Ambuel. Albany: State University of New York, 1997.
“Comments on ‘Is There a Metaphysics of Community? A Continental Perspective on American Philosophy’ by Hermann Deuser,” in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy New Series, 11/2 (1997) 97-100.
“Reply to Serious Critics,” in American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, 18/3 (September 1997), 281-294; replying to “The Culture of Metaphysics: On saving Neville’s Project (from Neville)” by David L. Hall, “Neville’s Theology of Creation, Covenant, and Trinity” by Hermann Deuser, “Neville’s ‘Naturalism’ and the Location of God” by Robert S. Corrington, and “Knowing the Mystery of God: Neville and Apophatic Theology” by Delwin Brown, in the same volume.
“A Paleopragmatic Philosophy of History of Philosophy,” in Pragmatism, Neo-Pragmatism, and Religion: Conversations with Richard Rorty, edited by Charley D. Hardwick and Donald A. Crosby. American Liberal Religious Thought; New York: Peter Lang, 1997. pp. 43–60.
“Is There an Essence of Human Nature?”, in Is There a Human Nature, edited by Leroy S. Rouner. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1997. pp. 94–109.
“A New Confucian Lament for Alienation,” in Loneliness, edited by Leroy W. Rouner. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998. pp. 258–272.
“Lewis S. Ford’s Theology: A Critical Appreciation,” in Process Studies, 27:1-2 (Spring-Summer 1998), 18-33.
“The Contingency of Nature,” in Philosophies of Nature: The Human Dimension, edited by R. S. Cohen and A. I. Tauber (Great Britain: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998), 121-137.
“Motif Analysis East and West,” in Komparative Philosophie: Begegnung zwischen oestlichen und westlichen Denkwegen. Edited by Rolf Elberfeld, Johann Kreuzer, John Minford, and Guenter Wohlfart. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1998. pp. 197–212.
“Mar Thoma Family Conference Keynote Address,” in Mar Thoma Messenger 17/3 (July 1998), 6-10.
“Going Global,” interview with Robert Neville by Anja Steinbauer, in Philosophy Now: A Magazine of Ideas, 22 (Winter 98/99), 8.
“Tu Wei-ming’s Confucianism,” a Foreword to the reprint edition of Tu Weiming’s Humanity and Self-Cultivation: Essays in Confucian Thought. Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company, 1998. Pp. i-xxi.
“Responding to My Critics,” chapter 16 in Interpreting Neville, edited by J. Harley Chapman and Nancy K. Frankenberry. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. pp. 291–328.
“Existential Conceptions of Love in Confucianism and Christianity,” in Jen, Agape, Tao, with Tu Wei-Ming, edited by Marko Zlomislic and David Goicoechea. Binghamton, New York: Global Publications, 1999. pp. 199–219.
Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, “Series Introduction,” first author with Jaakko Hintikka, Ernest Sosa, Alan M. Olson, and Stephen Dawson, in twelve volumes, beginning 1999.
“Eternity and the Time of Education,” in Metaphysics: The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, volume 2, edited by Tom Rockmore. Philosophy Documentation Center: Bowling Green State University, 1999. pp. 237–43.
“A Pragmatic Semiotic Theory of Religious Symbolism,” in Metaphor and Godtalk, edited by Lieven Boeve and Kurt Feyaerts. Bern: Peter Lang, 1999. pp 15–32.
“The Compleat Metaphysician: A Conversation with Robert Cummings Neville,” a Soundings interview by Ralph V. Norman, in Soundings, 82/3-4 (Fall/Winter 1999), 339-56.
“Philosophy at the Beginning of New Millennium,” in A Parliament of Minds, edited with Michael Tobias, J. Patrick Fitzgerald, and David Rothenberg. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.
“Tu Weiming’s Confucianism,” in International Review of Chinese Religion and Philosophy, 5 (March 2000), pp. 163–194.
“The Dialectic of Being in Cross-Cultural Perspective,” in Being and Dialectic: Metaphysics and Culture, edited by William Desmond and Joseph Grange. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. pp. 179–95.
“Interkulterelle Verstaendigung und die reale Moeglichkeit religioeser Wahrheit,” in Religion im Dialog der Kulturen: Kontextuelle religioese Bildung und interkulterelle Kompetenz, edited by Engelbert Gross and Thomas Schreijaeck. Muenster: LIT, 2000. pp. 15–22.
“Methodology, Practices, and Discipline in Chinese and Western Philosophy,” in Two Roads to Wisdom? Chinese and Analytic Philosophical Traditions, edited by Bo Mou, with a foreword by Donald Dvidson. LaSalle, Il: Open Court, 2001. pp. 27–44.
“Perennial Philosophy in a Public Context,” in The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, The Library of Living Philosophers, volume 28, edited by Lewis Edwin Hahn, Randall E. Auxier, and Lucian W. Stone, Jr. LaSalle, Il: Open Court, 2001. pp. 169–89. With a reply from Professor Nasr.
“God in Nature: Symbolic Reference and Reframing the Question of Divine Action,” in Beyond Conflict and Reduction: Between Philosophy, Science and Religion, edited by William Desmond, John Steffen, and Koen Decoster. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2001. pp. 67–95.
“Preface to the Comparative Religious Ideas Project,” in The Human Condition, Ultimate Realities, and Religious Truth, all edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. Pp. xv-xxvi, xv-xxvi, and xiii-xxiv respectively. Translated into Portuguese as Prefacio in A Condicao Humana, pp. 17–33.
“Introduction,” with Wesley J. Wildman, to The Human Condition, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. pp. 1–7. Translated into Portuguese in A Condicao Humana, pp. 37–44.
“On Comparing Religious Ideas,” with Wesley J. Wildman, in The Human Condition, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. pp. 9–20. Translated into Portuguese as “Sobre O Comparar Ideias Religiosas” in A Condicao Humana, pp. 45–60.
“Comparative Hypotheses: Cosmological Categories for the Human Condition,” with Wesley J. Wildman, in The Human Condition, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. pp. 175–235. Translated into Portuguese as “Hipoteses Comparativas: Categorias cosmologicas para a condicao humana” in A Condicao Humana, pp. 245–328.
“Comparative Hypotheses: Personal and Social Categories for the Human Condition,” in The Human Condition, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. pp. 237–65. Translated into Portuguese as “Hipoteses Comparativas: Categorias pessoais e sociais para a condicao humana” in A Condicao Humana, pp. 329–365.
“Introduction,” with Wesley J. Wildman, to Ultimate Realities, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. pp. 1–8. “Comparative Conclusions about Ultimate Realities,” with Wesley J. Wildman, in Ultimate Realities, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. pp. 151–85.
“On Comparing Religious Ideas,” with Wesley J. Wildman, in Ultimate Realities, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. pp. 187–210.
“How Our Approach to Comparison Relates to Others,” second author with Wesley J. Wildman, in Ultimate Realities, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. pp. 211–36.
“Introduction,” with Wesley J. Wildman, to Religious Truth, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. pp. 1–6.
“Religious Truth in the Six Traditions: A Summary,” with Wesley J. Wildman, in Religious Truth, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. pp. 145–69.
“A Contemporary Understanding of Religious Truth,” with Wesley J. Wildman, in Religious Truth, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. pp. 172–201.
“On the Nature of Religion: Lessons We Have Learned,” second author with Wesley J. Wildman, in Religious Truth, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. pp. 203–17.
“Director’s Conclusions to the Comparative Religious Ideas Project,” in Religious Truth, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. pp. 219–25.
“Unity and Diversity in Theological Education: The Problem of Contextuality,” in Serving God with Heart and Mind: A Festschrift in Honor of Roger W. Ireson, edited by Hendrik R. Pieterse. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2001. pp. 73–90.
“The Contributions of C. S. Peirce to Contemporary Philosophy of Religion,” in Cognitio—Revista de Filosofia, 2(2001) 134-46, with a translation into Portuguese immediately following, pp. 147–60.
“Neoplatonism in Contemporary Christian Spirituality,” in Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought: Part Two, edited by R. Baine Harris. Volume 11 in Studies in Neoplatonism: Ancient and Modern, R. Baine Harris, General Editor. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. pp. 363–81.
“Response to Thomas Berry’s The Great Work,” in Worldviews 5(Brill, Leiden, 2001), 136-141.
“Christian Theological Education and Other Religions,” in Focus (Winter 2001-2002), 9-11.
“A Response to the Theological Debate,” in Focus (Winter 2001-2002), 15.
“Two Forms of Comparative Philosophy,” in Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 1/1(winter 2001), 1-13.
“Phenomenology and Pragmatism,” in Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science, Van Gogh’s Eyes, and God: Essays in Honor of Patrick A. Heelan, S.J., edited by Babette E. Babich. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. pp. 323–34.
“Daoist Relativism, Ethical Choice, and Normative Measure,” in Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 29/1 (March 2002), pp. 5–20.
“On the Complexity of Theological Literacy,” in Theological Literacy for the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Rodney L. Petersen with Nancy M. Rourke. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002. pp. 39–54.
“Contextualization and the Non-obvious Meaning of Religious Symbols: New Dimensions to the Problem of Truth,” in Neue Zeitschrift Fuer Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie, 44 (2002), pp. 71–88.
“A Theological Analysis of the Order of Deacons in The United Methodist Church.” An Occasional Paper, published by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church, Nashville, TN 37203-0007, 2002.
“Courage: Heroes and Anti-heroes,” in Courage. Edited by Barbara Darling-Smith. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002, pp. 119–131; published also in Focus (Spring 2001), pp. 7–10.
“The Project of Boston Confucianism,” in Comparative Approaches to Chinese Philosophy, edited by Bo Mou (Aldershot, GB: Ashgate, 2003), pp. 185–204.
“Creation and Cosmology,” in Comparative Theology: Essays for Keith Ward. Edited by T. W. Bartel. London: SPCK Press, 2003, pp. 120–131.
“A Peircean Theory of Religious Interpretation,” in Pragmatism and Religion, edited by Stuart Rosenbaum. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.
“Biomedical Technology: A Theological Approach,” in Technology and Cultural Values on the Edge of the Third Millennium. Edited by Peter D. Hershock, Marietta Stepaniants, and Roger T. Ames. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003, pp. 132–138.
Encyclopedia articles in Encyclopedia of Religion and Science, two volumes. J. Wentzel Vrede van Huyssteen, Editor in Chief, Niels Henrick Gregersen, Nancy Howell, and Wesley J. Wildman, Editors. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2003.
“Imagination,” pp. 446–49 (volume 1); “Theology,” p. 882 (volume 2); “Theology, Theories of,” pp. 882–88 (volume 2); “Value, Religious,” pp. 915–17 (volume 2).
“Metaphysics in Contemporary Chinese Philosophy,” in The Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 30:3&4 (September/December 2003), 313-326.
“The Church in Review: Is the True mission of the United Methodist Church to make disciples of Jesus Christ?” in Quarterly Review, 23/4 (Winter 2003), pp. 425–431.
“On Marriage: A Sermon,” in Zion’s Herald 178/1 (January–February 2004), pp. 7ff.
“”Toward a Theology of World Religions: The Existential Threats,” in The Stranger’s Religion: Fascination and Fear. Edited by Anna Lannstrom. Notre Dame, Indiana: Notre Dame University Press, 2004. pp. 113–130.
“The Role of Concepts of God in Cross Cultural Comparative Theology,” in Philosophy of Religion for a New Century: Essays in Honor of Eugene Thomas Long.
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pp. 243–259. Reprinted in Naming and Thinking God in Europe Today, edited by Norbert Hintersteiner. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2007, pp. 513–529.
“How To Read Scriptures for Religious Truth,” in When Judaism and Christianity Began: Essays in Memory of Anthony F. Saldarini. Edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck, Daniel Harrington, and Jacob Neusner. Volume II: Judaism and Christianity in the Beginning. pp. 601–621. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2004. pp. 601–621.
“On the Conditions for Systematic Theology in a Global Public,” in Religious Apologetics—Philosophical Argumentation, edited by Yossef Schwartz and Volkhard Krech. Tuebingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2004. pp. 9–24.
“Metaphysics and World Philosophy: W. E. Hocking on Chinese Philosophy,” in A William Ernest Hocking Reader, with Commentary, edited by John Lachs and D. Micah Hester. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004. pp. 367–381.
“Response to Michael Pye,” in The Future of the Study of Religion: Proceedings of Congress 2000, edited by Slavica Jakelic and Lori Pearson. Boston: Brill, 2004. pp. 97–101.
“David Hall as a Philosopher of Culture,” in China Scholarship 4(2003), pp. 19– 31. In Chinese, published under my Chinese name, Nan Loshan.
“Osoznannoe I Neosozhannoe Mesto Rituala I Gumannosti,” China in the Dialogue of Civilizations: For the 70-year jubilee of Academician Mikhail L. Titarenko. Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences/Institute of Far Eastern Studies/ Pamyatniki Istoricheskoy Mysli, 2004. pp. 653–660. Russian Translation of “The Conscious and Unconscious Placing of Ritual and Humaneness.”
“Contemporary Confucian Spirituality and Multiple Religious Identity,” in Confucian Spirituality, Volume 2. Edited by Tu Weiming and Mary Evelyn Tucker. New York: Crossroad, 2004. pp. 440–462. A much revised version of this essay is chapter 4 of Boston Confucianism.
“Whitehead and Pragmatism,” in Whitehead’s Philosophy: Points of Connection. Edited by Janusz A. Polanowski and Donald W. Sherburne. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004.
“Conscious and Unconscious Placing of Ritual (Li) and Humanity (Ren), in Confucianism in Dialogue Today: West, Christianity, and Judaism. Edited by Liu Shu-Hsien, John Berthrong, and Leonard Swidler. Philadelphia, PA: Ecumenical Press, 2004. Pp. 48-58.
“Naturalism and Supernaturalism in American Theology,” in American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, 26/1&2(January–May 2005), pp. 77–84.
“Carrying Scripture across Imagination,” in Reconsidering the Boundaries between Theological Disciplines, edited by Michael Welker and Friedrich Schweitzer. Muenster: Lit Verlag, 2005. pp. 65–69.
“The Contemporary Mutual Developmnet of Confucianism and Christianity: A Way of Wisdom,” in Wisdom in China and the West: Chinese Philosophical Studies, XXII, edited by Vincent Shen and Willard Oxtoby, Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change Series III, Asia, Volume 22, 2004. General editor George F. McLean, pp. 1–10.
“David Hall as a Philosopher of Culture,” in Metaphilosophy and Chinese Thought: Interpreting David Hall. Edited, with a Prologue, by Ewing Chinn and Henry Rosemont, Jr. New York: Global Scholarly Publications, 2005. pp. 21–34.
“Confucianism and Christianity,” in The New Westminster Dictionary of Christian Spirituality. Edited by Philip Sheldrake
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“Symbol and Spirituality,” in The New Westminster Dictionary of Christian Spirituality. Edited by Philip Sheldrake
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“Eschatological Visions,” in World without End: Christian Eschatology from a Process Perspective. Edited by Joseph A. Bracken, S.J. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2005. pp. 26–45.
“Religion, Fundamentalismus und die Politik des Weissen Hauses,” in Religioeser Fundamentalismus: Analysen und Kritiken, edited by Stefan Alkier, Hermann Deuser, and Gesche Linde. Tuebingen: Francke Verlag, 2005. pp. 63–79.
“Pragmatism and Theology’s Truth,” in Quarterly Review, 25/3 (Fall 2005), pp. 241–253.
Review of Robert Elliott Allinson, A Metaphysics for the Future, in Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 54 (July 2005). pp. 349–353.
“Comments on Nature’s Religion and Robert Corrington’s ‘Aesthetic Naturalism’,” in American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, 26/3 (September 2005). Pp. 254-262.
“Critical Study of Ian S. Markham, A Theology of Engagement, in Conversations in Religion and Theology 3/2 (November 2005). Pp. 140-150.
“Philosophy of Nature in American Theology.” In Theologie Zwischen Pragmatismus und Existenzdenken, a Festschrift for Hermann Deuser on his 60th birthday. Edited by Gesche Linde, Richard Purkarthofer, Heiko Schulz, and Peter Steinacker. Marburg, Germany: N. G. Elwert, 2006.
“Contemporary Significance of Confucian Values,” in Journal of Yulgok Studies 1/1(Fall, 2005). In English, pp. 9–24; in Korean, pp. 25–39; in Chinese, pp. 41–51.
“Culture, Religion, Nation-States, and Reason in the Politics of Tolerance,” in Tolerance in the Twenty-First Century: Prospects and Challenges. Edited by Gerson Moreno-Riano. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
“Being Philosophic and Having a Philosophy: Reflections to Honor Richard Bernstein,” in The Pragmatic Century: Conversations with Richard Bernstein. Edited by Sheila Greeve Davaney and Warren G. Frisina. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006. pp. 103–109.
“Religionen in einer Welt vieler Kulturen,” in Religion und Kulturkritik. Edited by Thomas M. Schmidt and Matthias Lutz-Bachmann. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2006.
“On the Continuity of Being and Meaning: All Knowing Is Engaged Interpretation,” in the Journal of Chinese Philosophy: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Hermeneutics, 34/1 (March 2007), pp. 49–58.
“The Light of the World,” a sermon, in The Progressive Christian, 181/2 (March/April 2007), pp. 15–17.
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“Response to George Newlands,” Conversations in Religion and Theology, 5/1(2007/1 May), pp. 37–41. Newlands’ review of Neville, “On the Scope and Truth of Theology,” pp. 31–37.
“Auferstehung,” in Zeitschrift fuer Neues Testament, 19(10. Jg. 2007), pp. 46–49.
“Religion and Metaphysics in Late Modernity,” in Metaphysik und Religion: Die Wiederentdeckung eines Zusammenhanges, edited by Hermann Deuser. Guetersloh: Guetersloher Verlagshaus, 2007. pp. 89–101.
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“A Comparison of Confucian and Christian Conceptions of Creativity,” in Dao: a Journal of Comparative Philosophy, 6/2 (June 2007), pp. 125–130.
“More on Jonas and Process Philosophy,” in The Legacy of Hans Jonas: Judaism and the Phenomenon of Life. Edited by Hava Tirosch-Samuelson and Chistian Wiese. Leiden: Brill, 2008. pp. 511–518.
“Cheng Chung-ying’s Constructive Philosophy,” in The Imperative of Understanding: Chinese Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy, and Onto-Hermeneutics: A Tribute Volume Dedicated to Professor Chung-ying Cheng. Edited by On-cho Ng. New York: Global Scholarly Publications, 2008. A Volume in the ACPA Series of Chinese and Comparative Philosophy, sponsored by the Association of Chinese Philosophers in America. pp. 107–121.
“A Letter of Grateful and Affectionate Response to David Ray Griffin’s Whitehead’s Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy: An Argument for Its Contemporary Relevance,” in Process Studies 37/1 (Spring/Summer 2008), pp. 7–38.
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systematic philosopher and theologian, author of numerous books and papers, and for much of his career was Dean of the Boston University School of Theology
Boston University School of Theology
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. J. Harley Chapman and Nancy Frankenberry, editors of a festchrift—a collection of critical essays written in Neville's honor—entitled Interpreting Neville, consider him to be “one of the most significant philosophers and theologians of our time".” Neville was Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and has taught at Yale, Fordham, and the State University of New York Purchase. He currently (April, 2011) holds three full professorships at Boston University: in philosophy, religion, and theology. He was granted a Doctorate honoris causa by the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Far Eastern Studies in 1996. Neville is a past president of the American Academy of Religion, of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy, of the Metaphysical Society of America
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, of the Association of United Methodist Theological Schools, and of the Trustees of the Boston Theological Institute. He is a former member of the Accrediting Commission of the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada and of the Commission on Theological Education of the United Methodist Church. Neville is currently a member of the editorial boards of Soundings and The Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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, and is the Associate Editor for Behavioral and Neurological Articles for The Encyclopedia of Bioethics. He was formerly on the editorial board of the Quarterly Review. An ordained elder in the Missouri East Conference of the United Methodist Church, Neville has pastored in Missouri and New York, and was Boston University chaplain from 2005 to 2009. He is married to Beth Neville, with whom he has three children and several grandchildren. An accomplished artist (emphasizing oil and watercolor paintings, pen and ink illustrations), Beth creates much of the artwork for Robert Neville's books. Several color plates of her work appear in his Symbols of Jesus.
Neville's most significant scholarly contribution is arguably his metaphysical theory of being (or being-itself): a new theory that involves an original solution to the ancient problem of the one and the many. He developed this theory for his PhD dissertation at Yale University
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(graduated 1963), of which his first book, God the Creator, constitutes a substantial revision. Exploring the implications of that theory has enabled him to produce a philosophy of nature that rivals Alfred North Whitehead's in scope and power, as can be seen from his three-volume Axiology of Thinking . The first volume in that trilogy, Reconstruction of Thinking (1981), was hailed by Donald W. Sherburne—editor of the corrected edition of Whitehead's Process and Reality--as "a truly important book. It is the first genuinely neo-Whiteheadian offering on a large, systematic scale." The second volume of the trilogy, Recovery of the Measure: Interpretation and Nature (1989), was also well received. The prominent Confucian scholar and philosopher David L. Hall wrote of it as follows: "Because of its timeliness, the brilliance of its arguments, and the profundity of its conclusions, there is good reason to believe that this work will shortly become the focus of genuine and widespread discussion. With the publication of this latest installment of his Axiology of Thinking, Neville emerges as one of the strongest voices in American philosophy." The complexity, systematic breadth, and analytic depth of Neville's thought is most evident in this second volume of his trilogy. To provide the cosmological setting for his theory of interpretation—a theory of interpretation designed to show how truth claims may be tested against the world of nature (in contrast to modern and postmodern theories)--Neville first develops theories of truth (chapters 1 and 3), participation (chapter 4), identity (chapter 5), being (chapter 6), value (chapter 7), harmony (chapter 8), time and temporal things (chapters 10 and 11), space and motion (chapter 11), causation (chapter 12), network and content meaning (chapters 13 and 14), and intentionality (chapter 15).
Neville is also well known as a religious studies scholar, especially for his comparative work. He has authored several books in the field of comparative religion: The Tao and the Daimon (1981), Behind the Masks of God (1991), Boston Confucianism (2000), Ritual and Deference (2008), and Realism in Religion (2009). In addition, Neville is the editor of three volumes that resulted from a "Comparative Religious Ideas Project" funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Henry Luce Foundation, and Boston University: Religious Truth, Ultimate Realities, and The Human Condition, (all 2001). The latter three texts present a theory of comparison that uses C. S. Peirce's notion of "vagueness" to develop what Neville calls vague categories of comparison. (A vague category is any category of thought that is left open to mutually incompatible specifications so as to allow for interpretations that might conflict with each other. For example, all swans are black specifies the vague proposition all swans are colored in a manner that contradicts all swans are white.) Neville argues that the judicious use of such categories enables comparisons to be made in such a way that respects the integrity and diversity of religious traditions.
Neville's comparative work in religion and his systematic philosophy come together in numerous works of theology that attempt to interpret the Christian tradition in a manner that not only respects but even accommodates non-Christian voices. He is encouraged in this attempt by an interpretation of the doctrine of creation ex nihilo that he developed in his first book, God the Creator (1968). In that book, Neville argues that to be is to be determinate, that to be determinate is to contrast with other determinations in a context of mutual relevance, and that the ultimate context of mutual relevance—that which grounds the many determinations of being—is pure indeterminacy. But if all things are what they are by virtue of their contrast with indeterminacy, then they come to be out of nothing: they are created ex nihilo. According to the prominent Whiteheadian philosopher Lewis Ford, Neville's is one of the "two most distinctive theories of creation in the twentieth century, both in terms of what it means to bring actualities into being, and in terms of funding the relationship between God and the world in its widest perspective." (The other theory Ford has in mind is Alfred North Whitehead's.) Though creation ex nihilo is typically associated with personalist varieties of theism, Neville's Creator is the purely indeterminate ground of beings. For this reason, he is encouraged to explore the possibility of Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian parallels in such texts as The Tao and the Daimon (1982), and Behind the Masks of God (1991). He is currently (April 2011) writing a trilogy of theological texts, the first installment of which was published in 2006 under the title, On the Scope and Truth of Theology: Theology as Symbolic Engagement. His other works of theology include Creativity and God, Symbols of Jesus, A Theology Primer, and The Truth of Broken Symbols (the last of which is as much a religious studies as a theological work). Neville's theology is critically engaged by numerous authors in a festschrift entitled, Theology in Global Context: Essays in Honor of Robert Cummings Neville (2004), edited by Amos Yong and Peter Heltzel.
Robert Neville is a proponent of Confucianism
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as a world philosophy. Together with several scholars from the Boston area of the United States—especially including Tu Weiming of Harvard University—Neville encourages the development of what has come to be called "Boston Confucianism." As its name suggests, Boston Confucianism is a "non-East Asian" expression of the Confucian tradition. Neville has produced several books devoted to Confucian themes, including one that argues at length for the legitimacy and exhibits the vitality and importance of Boston Confucianism: Boston Confucianism: Portable Tradition in the Late-Modern World (2000). His contributions to Chinese philosophy have resulted in his being given an honorary Chinese name: NAN Lo Shan.
AUTHORED BOOKS
Neville, Robert Cummings. 1992. God the Creator: On the Transcendence and Presence of God. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. [Second edition of the same title published in 1968 by University of Chicago Press, with a new Preface]
———1974. The Cosmology of Freedom. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
———1980. Creativity and God: A Challenge to Process Theology. New York: Seabury Press.
———1981. Reconstruction of Thinking. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
———1982. The Tao and the Daimon: Segments of a Religious Inquiry. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
———1987. The Puritan Smile: A Look Toward Moral Reflection. New York, NY: SUNY Press.
———1989a. Recovery of the Measure: Interpretation and Nature. New York, NY: SUNY Press.
———1989b. Soldier, Sage, Saint. Fordham University Press.
———1991a. Behind the Masks of God: An Essay Toward Comparative Theology. New York, NY: SUNY Press.
———1991b. A Theology Primer. New York, NY: SUNY Press.
———1992a. The Highroad Around Modernism. Albany, NY: SUNY Press
———1993. Eternity and Time’s Flow. New York, NY: SUNY Press.
———1995. Normative Cultures. New York, NY: SUNY Press.
———1996. The Truth of Broken Symbols. New York, NY: SUNY Press.
———1999. The God Who Beckons: Theology in the Form of Sermons. Nashville: Abingdon press.
———2000. Boston Confucianism: Portable Tradition in the Late-Modern World. New York, NY: SUNY Press.
———2001. Symbols of Jesus: A Christology of Symbolic Engagement. Cambridge University Press.
———2002. Religion in Late Modernity. New York, NY: SUNY Press.
———2006. On the Scope and Truth of Theology: Theology as Symbolic Engagement. New York: T&T Clark.
———2008. Ritual and Deference: Extending Chinese Philosophy in a Comparative Context. New York, NY: SUNY Press.
———2009. Realism in Religion: A Pragmatist’s Perspective. New York, NY: SUNY Press.
EDITED BOOKS
———1975. Operating on the Mind: The Psychosurgery Conflict, edited, with Willard Gaylin and Joel Meister. New York: Basic Books.
———1978'. Encyclopedia of Bioethics, Associate Editor, for the Behavioral and Neurological Sciences. Warren Reich, Editor-in-Chief. New York: Macmillan-Free Press.
———1985. T’ai-Chi Ch’uan: Body and Mind in Harmony: The Integration of Meaning and Method. By Sophia Delza. Revised edition, edited with a Foreword by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press.
———1987. New Essays in Metaphysics. Albany: State University of New York Press.
———1996. The T’ai-Chi Ch’uan Experience: Reflections and Perceptions on Body-Mind Harmony. By Sophia Delza, edited with a “Foreword” by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press
———1997. Evangelism: Crossing Boundaries, an issue of the Circuit Rider, February, edited by Robert Cummings Neville.
———1997. The Recovery of Philosophy in America: Essays in Honor of John Edwin Smith. Edited with Thomas P. Kasulis. Albany: State University of New York Press.
———2001. The Human Condition: A Volume in the Comparative Religious Ideas Project. Foreword by Peter L. Berger. Albany: State University of New York Press.
———2001. Ultimate Realities: A Volume in the Comparative Religious Ideas Project. Foreword by Tu Wei-ming. Albany: State University of New York Press.
———2001. Religious Truth: A Volume in the Comparative Religious Ideas Project. Foreword by Jonathan Z. Smith. Albany: State University of New York Press.
———2005. Acondicao Humana: Um Tema Para Religioes Comparadas. A translation into Portuguese of The Human Condition, with a Preface by the Brasilian editor and translator, Eduardo Rodrigues da Cruz. Sao Paulo: Paulus Press.
ARTICLES AND CRITICAL STUDIES
"Man's Ends," Review of Metaphysics, 16/l (September 1962), 26-44.
"Ehman's Idealism," Review of Metaphysics, 17/4 (June 1964), 617-622.
"Some Historical Problems about the Transcendence of God," Journal of Religion, 47 (January 1967), 1-9.
"A Critical Study of Edward G. Ballard's Socratic Ignorance: An Essay on Platonic Self-Knowledge," International Philosophical Quarterly, 7 (June 1967), 340-356. "Reply," The Christian Scholar, 50/3 (Fall 1967), 324-325.
"Intuition," International Philosophical Quarterly, 7 (December 1967), 556-590.
"Improving What We Are," Fordham Magazine, 2 (March 1968), 18-23.
"Can God Create Men and Address Them Too?", Harvard Theological Review, 61 (1968), 603-623.
"Current Issues in Christian Ecumenism", World Order, (Winter 1968-69).
"Creation and the Trinity," Theological Studies, 30 (March 1969), 3-26.
"Nine Books By and About Teilhard," Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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, (1969), 71-82.
"Father Gibson's Pop Culture," Commonweal, (October 31, 1969).
"Neoclassical Metaphysics and Christianity: A Critical Study of Ogden's Reality of God," International Philosophical Quarterly, 9 (December 1969), 605-624.
"Whitehead on the One and the Many," Southern Journal of Philosophy, 7 (Winter 1969-70), 387-393.
"The Impossibility of Whitehead's God for Theology," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1970, 130-140.
"The Faith of Easter," The Lamp, 58 (March 1970).
"The Social Importance of Philosophy," Abraxas, 1/1 (Fall 1970), 31-45.
"Paul Weiss's Philosophy in Process," Review of Metaphysics, 24 (December 1970), 276-301.
"Genetic Succession, Time, and Becoming," Process Studies, 1/3 (Fall 1971), 194-198.
"Where Do the Poets Fit In?: A Study of B. F. Skinner's Beyond Freedom and Dignity", Hastings Center Report, 3 (December 1971), 6-8.
"The Cumulative Impact of Behavior Control," Hastings Center Report, 2 (September 1971), 12-13.
"Experience and Philosophy: A Review of Hartshorne's Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method," Process Studies, 2 (Fall 1972), 49-67.
"Response to Ford's `Neville on the One and the Many'," Southern Journal of Philosophy, 10/1 (Spring 1972), 85-86.
"Contemporary Schools of Metascience by Gerard Radnitzky: A Critical Review," International Philosophical Quarterly, 12/1 (March 1972), 131-136.
"Knowledge and Being: Comments on Griesbach and Reck," The Review of Metaphysics, 25 (June 1972), 40-46.
"The Limits of Freedom and the Technologies of Behavior Control," The Human Context, (Winter 1972), 433-446.
"Creativity and Fatigue in Public Life," in Toothing-Stones: Rethinking the Political, edited by Robert E. Meagher. Chicago: The Swallow Press, 1972. pp. 144–58.
"A Metaphysical Argument for a Wholly Empirical Theology," in God: Knowable and Unknowable, edited by Robert J. Roth, S.J. New York: Fordham University Press, 1972.
"Statutory Law and the Future of Justice," The American Journal of Jurisprudence, 1972, 92-110.
"The Contours of Responsibility: A New Model," with Harold F. Moore and William Sullivan, Man and World, 5/4 (November 1972), 392-421.
"Blood Money: Should a Rich Nation Buy Plasma from the Poor," with Peter Steinfels, Hastings Center Report, 2/6 (December 1972), 8-10.
"The Physical Manipulation of the Brain: A Conference Report," edited. A Hastings Center Report, 1973. Republished in Dissent, Summer, 1973).
"Brain Surgery in Aggressive Epileptics: Social and Ethical Implication," with Vernon H. Mark. Journal of the American Medical Association
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, 225 (11/12/73), 765-772.
Reprinted in Physiology of Aggression and Implications for Control: An Anthology of Readings, edited by Kenneth Evan Moyer. New York: Raven Press, 1976, pp. 307–320.
Reprinted in Hunt, R., and Arras, J., Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine. Palo Alto, CA.:Mayfield, 1977, pp. 383–402.
"Behavior Control: Need for New Myths," Engage/Social Action, 1/10 (October 1973).
"Specialties and Worlds," Hastings Center Studies, 2/1 (January 1974).
"Pots and Black Kettles: A Philosopher's Perspective on Psychosurgery," Boston University Law Review, 54 (April 1974).
"Controlling Behavior through Drugs," edited with an introduction, Hastings Center Studies, 2/1 (January 1974), 65-112.
"Vanity and Time," The Cord, (April 1974).
"A Study of Charles E. Winquist, The Transcendental Imagination," in Process Studies, 5/1 (Spring 1975), 49-60.
"Teaching the Meno and the Reformation of Character," Teaching Philosophy 1/2 (Fall, 1975) 119-21.
"Gene Therapy and the Ethics of Genetic Therapeatics," Proceedings of the New York Academy of Science, 1975.
"Freedom's Bondage," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1976, 1-13
"In Defense of Process," in Paul Weiss, First Considerations. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1977, 208-222.
"Pluralism and Finality in Structures of Existence," in John Cobb's Theology in Process, edited by David Ray Griffin and Thomas J. J. Altizer. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1977, 67-83.
"Defining Death," in Human Life: Problems of Birth, of Living, and of Dying, edited by William Bier, S.J. New York: Fordham University Press, 1977, 181-191.
"Environments of the Mind", in Mental Health: Philosophical Perspectives, edited by H. T. Engelhardt, Jr., and S. F. Spicker. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel, 1977, 169-176.
"Suffering, Guilt, and Responsibility," Journal of Dharma, 2/3 (July 1977), 248-259. Reprinted as "Suffering and Evil," by Stauros International, 1981.
"Wang Yang-Ming's Inquiry on the Great Learning," Process Studies, 7/4 (Winter 1977), 217-237.
"Behavior Control," in Encyclopedia of Bioethics. New York: Macmillan-Free Press, 1978, pp. 85–93.
"Drug Use, Abuse, and Dependence," in Encyclopedia of Bioethics. New York: Macmillan-Free Press, 1978, pp. 326–333.
"Psychosurgery," Encyclopedia of Bioethics. New York: Macmillan-Free Press, 1978, pp. 1387–1391.
"The Taste of Death," in Philosophical Aspects of Thanatology, edited by Florence M. Hetzler and Austin H. Kutscher. New York: Arno Press, 1978. Vol. I, 177-189.
"Sterilization of the Retarded: In Whose Interest? The Philosophical Arguments," Hastings Center Report, 8/3 (June 1978), 33-37.
"Critical Study of Psychosurgery and the Medical Control of Violence: Autonomy and Deviance," by Samuel I. Shuman, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 48/4 (October 1978), 732-736.
"Philosophic Perspectives on Freedom of Inquiry," University of Southern California Law Review, 51/5 (July 1978), 1115-1129.
"On the National Commission: A Puritan Critique of Consensus Ethics," in Hastings Center Report, 9/2 (April 1979) 22-27.
"Reply to Philip H. Rhinelander's `Critique of the Puritan Ethic'," in Hastings Center Report, 9/6 (December 1979) 49-50.
"Authority and Experience in Religious Ethics," in Logos, 1/1 (1980) 79-92.
"Metaphysics," in Social Research, 47/4 (Winter, 1980) 686-703.
"From Nothing to Being: The Notion of Creation in Chinese and Western Thought," in Philosophy East and West, 30/1 (January, 1980) 21-34.
"Various Meanings of Privacy: A Philosophical Analysis," in Privacy: A Vanishing Value, ed. by Wm. Bier, S.J., New York: Fordham University Press, 1980, pp. 22–33
"The Space of Freedom," in Notebook, (Fall, 1980) 17-21.
"The Art of Beth Neville," in an Exhibition Catalogue, April, 1980.
"The Sun and the City," in an Exhibition Catalogue, April, 1980.
"Sterilization of the Mildly Mentally Retarded Without Their Consent: The Philosophical Arguments," in Mental Retardation and Sterilization: A Problem of Competency and Paternalism. Edited by Ruth Macklin and Willard Gaylin. New York: Plenum Press, 1981. pp. 181–193.
"The Buddha's Birthday," in The Joong-Ang Daily News, Thursday, May 7, 1981, p. 15. Translated into Korean by Sung-bae Park.
"The Holy Spirit as God," in Is God God? Edited by Axel D. Steuer and James Wm. McClendon, Jr. Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, 1981. pp. 235–64.
"Concerning Creativity and God: A Response," in Process Studies, 11/1 (Spring, 1981) 1-10. In reference to "Three Responses to Neville's Creativity and God," by Charles Hartshorne, John B. Cobb,Jr., and Lewis S. Ford, in Process Studies, 10/3-4 (Fall-Winter, 1980) 73-88.
"Missions On an Ecumenical Globe," Jeevadhara, 13/77 (September, 1983), 335-342.
"Responsibility, Rehabilitation, and Drugs: Health Care Dilemmas," with Jay Schulkin, in Ethical Problems of the Nurse-Patient Relationship, edited by Catherine P. Murphy and Howard Hunter. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1983, pp. 166–182.
"Whitehead on the One and the Many," reprinted with extensive alterations in Explorations in Whitehead's Philosophy, edited by Lewis S. Ford and George L. Kline. New York: Fordham University Press, 1983, pp. 257–271.
"Ethics in Medical Donations," abstracted in American Paralysis Association/Research in Progress, 6/Sept. 1983, pp. 3ff.
"The State's Intervention in Individuals' Drug Use: A Normative Account," in Feeling Good and Doing Better, edited by Thomas H. Murray, Willard Gaylin, and Ruth Macklin) Clifton, N.J.: Humana Press, 1984), pp. 65–80.
"Buddhism and Process Philosophy," in Buddhism and American Thinkers, edited by Kenneth K. Inada and Nolan P. Jacobson (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984) pp. 121–42.
"New Metaphysics for Eternal Experience: A Critical Review of Steve Odin's Process Metaphysics and Hua-Yen Buddhism," in the Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 11/2 (June, 1984), pp. 185–97.
"The Valuable and the Meaningful: A Critical Study of Robert Nozick's Philosophical Explanations," in Modern Age, 27/3-4 (Summer-Fall, 1983), pp. 322–25.
"Body, Mind, and Health in Salvation," in Listening, 19/2 (Spring, 1984), pp. 91–102.
"Uncertain Irony," in Process Studies, 14/1, (Spring, 1984), pp. 49–58.
"Philosophy and the Question of God," International Philosophical Quarterly, 25/1 (March, 1985), pp. 51–62.
"Wang Yang-ming and John Dewey on the Ontological Question," Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 12 (1985), pp. 283–295.
"From legumes a la Grecque to bouillabaisse in early Taoism," Philosophy East and West, 35/4 (October, 1985), pp. 431–443.
"Hegel and Whitehead on Totality: The Failure of a Conception of System," in Hegel and Whitehead: Contemporary Perspectives on Systematic Philosophy, edited by George R. Lucas, Jr. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986, pp. 86–108.
"The Scholar-Official As a Model for Ethics," Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 13/2 (June, 1986), pp. 185–201.
"John E. Smith as Jeremiah," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 22/3 (Summer, 1986), pp. 258–271.
"Comments on Girardot's `Response'," Philosophy East and West, 36 (July, 1986), pp. 271–273.
"A Thesis Concerning Truth," Process Studies, 5/2 (Summer, 1986), pp. 127–136.
"On the Relation of Christian to Other Philosophies," in Being and Truth: Essays in Honour of John Macquarrie, edited by Alistair Kee and Eugene T. Long. London: SCM Press, 1986. pp. 276–292.
"Behavior Control," reprinted in an edited version from The Encyclopedia of Bioethics in The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Ethics, edited by James F. Childress and John MacQuarrie. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1986. pp. 55–57.
"Achievement, Value, and Structure," in Creativity and Common Sense: Essays in Honor of Paul Weiss, edited by Thomas Krettek. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987. pp. 124–144.
"Contributions and Limitations of Process Philosophy," in Process Studies (Winter, 1987), 16/4, pp. 283–298; abstracted in Journal of Philosophy, (Fall 1984), pp. 621–22.
"Sketch of a System," in New Essays in Metaphysics, edited by Robert C. Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987.
"Units of Change--Units of Value," Philosophy East and West 37/2 (April, 1987), pp. 131–134. Reprinted in Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in Environmental Philosophy, edited by J. Baird Callicott and Roger T. Ames. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. pp. 145–49.
"The Depths of God," in Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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66/1 (Spring, 1988), 1-24.
"Motion in Causal Agency," in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 2/3 (New Series, 1988), 175-191.
"Beyond Production and Class: A Process Project in Economic Theory," in - Economic Life, edited by W. Widick Schroeder and Franklin I. Gamwell (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1988), 141-163.
"Between Chaos and Totalization," in Harmony and Strife, edited by Robert Allinson and Liu Shu-hsien. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 1988, pp. 49–58.
"A Christian Response to Shu-hsien Liu and Pei-jung Fu," in Religious Issues and Interreligious Dialogues: An Analysis and Sourcebook of Developments Since 1945, edited by Charles Wei-hsun Fu and Gerhard E. Spiegler. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989, pp. 555–570.
"The Chinese Case in a Philosophy of World Religions," in Understanding the Chinese Mind: The Philosophical Roots. Edited by Robert E. Allinson. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1989. pp. 48–74.
"Confucian-Christian Dialogue," in China Notes, 27/2 (Spring 1989), pp. 524–528.
"Freedom, Tolerance, and Puritan Commitment" in On Freedom, edited by Leroy S. Rouner. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1989. pp. 59–76. “Value, Courage, and Leadership,” in The Review of Metaphysics, 43/1(September 1989). pp. 3–26.
"Neville's Review of The Boston Personalist Tradition," with Rufus Burrow, Jr., in The Personalist Forum, 5/2 (Fall 1989), pp. 145–147.
"Individuation in Christianity and Confucianism," in Ching Feng 32/1 (March 1989), pp. 3–23. Reprinted in Confucian-Christian Encounters in Historical and Contemporary Perspective, edited by Peter K. H. Lee. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellon Press, 1991, pp. 274–294.
"The Call to and Practice of Ordained Ministry." Tower Notes (Spring 1990, No.1). Republished as "The Apostolic Character of Ordained Ministry," in Quarterly Review, Winter, 1990, pp. 1–18.
"Technology and the Richness of the World," in Technology and Religion, edited by Frederick Ferre, Vol 10 of Research in Philosophy and Technology. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1990. pp. 185–204.
"World Community and Religion," in Ilyu munmyong gwa Won Bulgyo sasang [Civilization of Mankind and the Thought of Won Buddhism]. Korea: Won'gwangch'ulp'ansa [Won'gwang Publishing Co.], 1991. pp. 1565–1592.
"Time, Temporality, and Ontology," in The Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne. Edited by Lewis Edwin Hahn. The Library of Living Philosophers, volume 20. Lasalle, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Company, 1991. pp. 377–395.
"On the Architecture of No-Man's Land: A Response to Hartt and Gustafson," Soundings, 73/4 (Winter 1990), 701-718.
"On Buddha's Answer to the Silence of God." Philosophy East and West, 41/4 (October 1991) 557-570.
"The End of Philosophy in the West," in Sino-American Relations, 18/3 (Autumn 1992), pp. 62–80.
"Body-Thinking in Chinese Philosophy," in Journal of National Chung Cheng University, 3/1 (October, 1992) 149-170.
"Body-Thinking in Western Philosophy," in Journal of National Chung Cheng University, 3/1 (October, 1992) 171-191.
“The Puritan Ethic in Confucianism and Christianity,” in Pacific Theological Review, XXV-XXVI (1992–1993), pp. 30–32.
"The Role of Religious Studies in Theological Education," School of Theology at Claremont Occasional Paper Number 8, 2/4 (December, 1992), 1-8.
"The Symbiotic Relation of Philosophy and Theology," in Philosophical Imagination and Cultural Memory: Appropriating Historical Traditions, edited by Patricia Cook (Durham: Duke University Press, 1993), pp. 149–164. Portions published also in The Highroad around Modernism, chapter 8.
"Chung-kuo che-hsueh te shen-t'i ssu-wei," translation by Yang Ru-pin of "Body-Thinking in Chinese Philosophy," in Chung-kuo ku-tai ssu-hsiang chung te ch'I lun nai shen-t'i kuan [Ancient Chinese Interpretations of Matter-Energy and the Body], edited by Yan Ru-pin (Taipei, Taiwan: Chu-liu Publishing Company, 1993) 193-212.
"World Community and Religion," a shortened version in English of the article above with the same title, in The Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 29/3-4 (Summer-Fall, 1992), pp. 368–382.
"Religious Studies and Theological Studies: The 1992 Presidential Address to the American Academy of Religion," in Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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, 61/2 (Summer 1993), pp. 185–200.
"Religious Learning beyond Secularism," in Can Virtue Be Taught?, edited by Barbara Darling-Smith. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993.
“God the Witness,” sermon on Micah 1:2; 2:1-10; Luke 17:11-19; 2 Timothy 2:8-15, excerpted and commented on in Donald K. McKim’s The Bible in Theology and Preaching: How Preachers Use Scripture. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1994. pp. 112–114.
“Confucianism as a World Philosophy.” Presidential Address for the 8th International Conference on Chinese Philosophy, Beijing, 1993. Journal of Chinese Philosophy 21 (1994)5-25.
“Report on the Roundtable ‘Chinese Philosophy at the Turn of the Century’” at the Nineteenth World Congress of Philosophy, Moscow, Russia, August 23, 1993. Journal of Chinese Philosophy 21 (1994) 67-69.
“The Human Predicament: Its Changing Image: A Study in Comparative Religion and History.” by Jaroslav Krejci, assisted by Anna Krejcova, reviewed in Philosophy East & West 44/4 (October 1994), pp. 741–743.
“Confucian-Christian Incompatibilities,” in Ching Feng, 37/4 (November 1994), pp. 195–216.
“Feature Review: Discourse and Practice, edited by Frank Reynolds and David Tracy, in Philosophy East & West, 45/1 (January 1995), pp. 115-119.
“The Classical Challenge,” in Christianity and Civil Society: Theological Education for Public Life, edited by Rodney L. Petersen (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1995), pp. 150–160.
“Truth and Tradition” in Truth and Tradition: A Conversation about the Future of United Methodist Theological Education, edited by Neal F. Fisher (Nashville: Abingdon, 1995), pp. 37–58.
“Truth’s Debt to Value,” by David Weissman, a Review in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 69-1 (Winter 1995), pp. 116–119.
“Bostonskoye konfutsianstvo” - korni vostochnoi kulturyi no zapadnoi pochve (“Boston Confucianism” - the Roots of Eastern Culture on the Western Soil), in Problemyi Dalnego Vostoke (Far Eastern Affairs). Translated with a commentary by A. Lomanov (p. 136-137), text on pp. 138–149. Moscow, 1995, Issue # I.
“Religions, Philosophies, and Philosophy of Religion,” in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 38 (1995), special volume “God, Reason, and Religions on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of this Journal,” edited by Eugene Long, 165-181.
“The Last Words of Sisera: A Libretto,” in Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal , 78/3-4 (Fall/Winter 1995), 439-462.
“Paul Weiss’s Theology,” in The Philosophy of Paul Weiss, edited by Lewis Edwin Hahn. The Library of Living Philosophers, Volume 23. LaSalle, Illinois: Open Court, 1995. pp. 389–414.
“Some Confucian-Christian Comparisons,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 22 (1995) 379-400. An academic revision and expansion of “Confucian-Christian Incompatibilities,” above.
“The Temporal Illusion of Eternity: a Pragmatic Theory of Spiritual Insight,” in Weisheit und Wissenschaft, edited by Tilman Borsche and Johann Kreuzer. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1995. pp. 129–38.
“A Confucian Construction of a Self-Deceivable Self,” in Self and Deception: A Cross-cultural Philosophical Enquiry. Edited by Roger T. Ames and Wimal Dissanayake. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. pp. 201–217.
“How Far We Are from a Confession: Tasks for Theological Education in Church and Society,” Quarterly Review 16/2 (Summer 1996), 117-125.
“The Emergence of Historical Consciousness,” in Spirituality and the Secular Quest, edited by Peter H. Van Ness. volume 22 of World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest. New York: Crossroad, 1996. pp. 129–156.
“Kitaiskaya Filosophiya v sovremennom mire (Chinese Philosophy in the Contemporary World)” in Problemyi Dalnego Vostoka 4/96 (Fall 1996), pp. 49–55.
“Puritanskya Eteka c Konfusianstvo a Christianstvo,” translation by Alexander Lomanov of “The Puritan Ethic in Confucianism and Christianity,” in Chinese Philosophy and Chinese Civilization, The Second All-Russian Academic Conference, Moscow, Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, May 22–24, 1996.
“Uniting Two Images” and “Evangelism Across Boundaries” in the Circuit Rider, February 1997.
“Commentary on the AAS Panel: Shun, Bloom, Cheng, and Birdwhistell,” in Philosophy East & West, 47/1 (January 1997), 67-74.
“Reflections on Philosophic Recovery,” in The Recovery of Philosophy in America, edited by Thomas P. Kasulis and Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997, pp. 1–10.
“American Philosophy’s Way around Modernism (and Postmodernism),” in The Recovery of Philosophy in America, edited by Thomas P. Kasulis and Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997, pp. 251–268.
“John E. Smith and Metaphysics,” in Reason, Experience, and God: John E. Smith in Dialogue. Edited by Vincent M. Colapietro. New York: Fordham University Press, 1997.
“Political Tolerance in an Age of Renewed Religious Warfare,” in Philosophy, Religion, and the Question of Intolerance. Edited by Mehdi Amin Razavi and David Ambuel. Albany: State University of New York, 1997.
“Comments on ‘Is There a Metaphysics of Community? A Continental Perspective on American Philosophy’ by Hermann Deuser,” in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy New Series, 11/2 (1997) 97-100.
“Reply to Serious Critics,” in American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, 18/3 (September 1997), 281-294; replying to “The Culture of Metaphysics: On saving Neville’s Project (from Neville)” by David L. Hall, “Neville’s Theology of Creation, Covenant, and Trinity” by Hermann Deuser, “Neville’s ‘Naturalism’ and the Location of God” by Robert S. Corrington, and “Knowing the Mystery of God: Neville and Apophatic Theology” by Delwin Brown, in the same volume.
“A Paleopragmatic Philosophy of History of Philosophy,” in Pragmatism, Neo-Pragmatism, and Religion: Conversations with Richard Rorty, edited by Charley D. Hardwick and Donald A. Crosby. American Liberal Religious Thought; New York: Peter Lang, 1997. pp. 43–60.
“Is There an Essence of Human Nature?”, in Is There a Human Nature, edited by Leroy S. Rouner. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1997. pp. 94–109.
“A New Confucian Lament for Alienation,” in Loneliness, edited by Leroy W. Rouner. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998. pp. 258–272.
“Lewis S. Ford’s Theology: A Critical Appreciation,” in Process Studies, 27:1-2 (Spring-Summer 1998), 18-33.
“The Contingency of Nature,” in Philosophies of Nature: The Human Dimension, edited by R. S. Cohen and A. I. Tauber (Great Britain: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998), 121-137.
“Motif Analysis East and West,” in Komparative Philosophie: Begegnung zwischen oestlichen und westlichen Denkwegen. Edited by Rolf Elberfeld, Johann Kreuzer, John Minford, and Guenter Wohlfart. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1998. pp. 197–212.
“Mar Thoma Family Conference Keynote Address,” in Mar Thoma Messenger 17/3 (July 1998), 6-10.
“Going Global,” interview with Robert Neville by Anja Steinbauer, in Philosophy Now: A Magazine of Ideas, 22 (Winter 98/99), 8.
“Tu Wei-ming’s Confucianism,” a Foreword to the reprint edition of Tu Weiming’s Humanity and Self-Cultivation: Essays in Confucian Thought. Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company, 1998. Pp. i-xxi.
“Responding to My Critics,” chapter 16 in Interpreting Neville, edited by J. Harley Chapman and Nancy K. Frankenberry. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. pp. 291–328.
“Existential Conceptions of Love in Confucianism and Christianity,” in Jen, Agape, Tao, with Tu Wei-Ming, edited by Marko Zlomislic and David Goicoechea. Binghamton, New York: Global Publications, 1999. pp. 199–219.
Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, “Series Introduction,” first author with Jaakko Hintikka, Ernest Sosa, Alan M. Olson, and Stephen Dawson, in twelve volumes, beginning 1999.
“Eternity and the Time of Education,” in Metaphysics: The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, volume 2, edited by Tom Rockmore. Philosophy Documentation Center: Bowling Green State University, 1999. pp. 237–43.
“A Pragmatic Semiotic Theory of Religious Symbolism,” in Metaphor and Godtalk, edited by Lieven Boeve and Kurt Feyaerts. Bern: Peter Lang, 1999. pp 15–32.
“The Compleat Metaphysician: A Conversation with Robert Cummings Neville,” a Soundings interview by Ralph V. Norman, in Soundings, 82/3-4 (Fall/Winter 1999), 339-56.
“Philosophy at the Beginning of New Millennium,” in A Parliament of Minds, edited with Michael Tobias, J. Patrick Fitzgerald, and David Rothenberg. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.
“Tu Weiming’s Confucianism,” in International Review of Chinese Religion and Philosophy, 5 (March 2000), pp. 163–194.
“The Dialectic of Being in Cross-Cultural Perspective,” in Being and Dialectic: Metaphysics and Culture, edited by William Desmond and Joseph Grange. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. pp. 179–95.
“Interkulterelle Verstaendigung und die reale Moeglichkeit religioeser Wahrheit,” in Religion im Dialog der Kulturen: Kontextuelle religioese Bildung und interkulterelle Kompetenz, edited by Engelbert Gross and Thomas Schreijaeck. Muenster: LIT, 2000. pp. 15–22.
“Methodology, Practices, and Discipline in Chinese and Western Philosophy,” in Two Roads to Wisdom? Chinese and Analytic Philosophical Traditions, edited by Bo Mou, with a foreword by Donald Dvidson. LaSalle, Il: Open Court, 2001. pp. 27–44.
“Perennial Philosophy in a Public Context,” in The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, The Library of Living Philosophers, volume 28, edited by Lewis Edwin Hahn, Randall E. Auxier, and Lucian W. Stone, Jr. LaSalle, Il: Open Court, 2001. pp. 169–89. With a reply from Professor Nasr.
“God in Nature: Symbolic Reference and Reframing the Question of Divine Action,” in Beyond Conflict and Reduction: Between Philosophy, Science and Religion, edited by William Desmond, John Steffen, and Koen Decoster. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2001. pp. 67–95.
“Preface to the Comparative Religious Ideas Project,” in The Human Condition, Ultimate Realities, and Religious Truth, all edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. Pp. xv-xxvi, xv-xxvi, and xiii-xxiv respectively. Translated into Portuguese as Prefacio in A Condicao Humana, pp. 17–33.
“Introduction,” with Wesley J. Wildman, to The Human Condition, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. pp. 1–7. Translated into Portuguese in A Condicao Humana, pp. 37–44.
“On Comparing Religious Ideas,” with Wesley J. Wildman, in The Human Condition, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. pp. 9–20. Translated into Portuguese as “Sobre O Comparar Ideias Religiosas” in A Condicao Humana, pp. 45–60.
“Comparative Hypotheses: Cosmological Categories for the Human Condition,” with Wesley J. Wildman, in The Human Condition, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. pp. 175–235. Translated into Portuguese as “Hipoteses Comparativas: Categorias cosmologicas para a condicao humana” in A Condicao Humana, pp. 245–328.
“Comparative Hypotheses: Personal and Social Categories for the Human Condition,” in The Human Condition, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. pp. 237–65. Translated into Portuguese as “Hipoteses Comparativas: Categorias pessoais e sociais para a condicao humana” in A Condicao Humana, pp. 329–365.
“Introduction,” with Wesley J. Wildman, to Ultimate Realities, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. pp. 1–8. “Comparative Conclusions about Ultimate Realities,” with Wesley J. Wildman, in Ultimate Realities, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. pp. 151–85.
“On Comparing Religious Ideas,” with Wesley J. Wildman, in Ultimate Realities, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. pp. 187–210.
“How Our Approach to Comparison Relates to Others,” second author with Wesley J. Wildman, in Ultimate Realities, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. pp. 211–36.
“Introduction,” with Wesley J. Wildman, to Religious Truth, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. pp. 1–6.
“Religious Truth in the Six Traditions: A Summary,” with Wesley J. Wildman, in Religious Truth, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. pp. 145–69.
“A Contemporary Understanding of Religious Truth,” with Wesley J. Wildman, in Religious Truth, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. pp. 172–201.
“On the Nature of Religion: Lessons We Have Learned,” second author with Wesley J. Wildman, in Religious Truth, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. pp. 203–17.
“Director’s Conclusions to the Comparative Religious Ideas Project,” in Religious Truth, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. pp. 219–25.
“Unity and Diversity in Theological Education: The Problem of Contextuality,” in Serving God with Heart and Mind: A Festschrift in Honor of Roger W. Ireson, edited by Hendrik R. Pieterse. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2001. pp. 73–90.
“The Contributions of C. S. Peirce to Contemporary Philosophy of Religion,” in Cognitio—Revista de Filosofia, 2(2001) 134-46, with a translation into Portuguese immediately following, pp. 147–60.
“Neoplatonism in Contemporary Christian Spirituality,” in Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought: Part Two, edited by R. Baine Harris. Volume 11 in Studies in Neoplatonism: Ancient and Modern, R. Baine Harris, General Editor. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. pp. 363–81.
“Response to Thomas Berry’s The Great Work,” in Worldviews 5(Brill, Leiden, 2001), 136-141.
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“Two Forms of Comparative Philosophy,” in Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 1/1(winter 2001), 1-13.
“Phenomenology and Pragmatism,” in Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science, Van Gogh’s Eyes, and God: Essays in Honor of Patrick A. Heelan, S.J., edited by Babette E. Babich. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. pp. 323–34.
“Daoist Relativism, Ethical Choice, and Normative Measure,” in Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 29/1 (March 2002), pp. 5–20.
“On the Complexity of Theological Literacy,” in Theological Literacy for the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Rodney L. Petersen with Nancy M. Rourke. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002. pp. 39–54.
“Contextualization and the Non-obvious Meaning of Religious Symbols: New Dimensions to the Problem of Truth,” in Neue Zeitschrift Fuer Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie, 44 (2002), pp. 71–88.
“A Theological Analysis of the Order of Deacons in The United Methodist Church.” An Occasional Paper, published by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church, Nashville, TN 37203-0007, 2002.
“Courage: Heroes and Anti-heroes,” in Courage. Edited by Barbara Darling-Smith. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002, pp. 119–131; published also in Focus (Spring 2001), pp. 7–10.
“The Project of Boston Confucianism,” in Comparative Approaches to Chinese Philosophy, edited by Bo Mou (Aldershot, GB: Ashgate, 2003), pp. 185–204.
“Creation and Cosmology,” in Comparative Theology: Essays for Keith Ward. Edited by T. W. Bartel. London: SPCK Press, 2003, pp. 120–131.
“A Peircean Theory of Religious Interpretation,” in Pragmatism and Religion, edited by Stuart Rosenbaum. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.
“Biomedical Technology: A Theological Approach,” in Technology and Cultural Values on the Edge of the Third Millennium. Edited by Peter D. Hershock, Marietta Stepaniants, and Roger T. Ames. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003, pp. 132–138.
Encyclopedia articles in Encyclopedia of Religion and Science, two volumes. J. Wentzel Vrede van Huyssteen, Editor in Chief, Niels Henrick Gregersen, Nancy Howell, and Wesley J. Wildman, Editors. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2003.
“Imagination,” pp. 446–49 (volume 1); “Theology,” p. 882 (volume 2); “Theology, Theories of,” pp. 882–88 (volume 2); “Value, Religious,” pp. 915–17 (volume 2).
“Metaphysics in Contemporary Chinese Philosophy,” in The Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 30:3&4 (September/December 2003), 313-326.
“The Church in Review: Is the True mission of the United Methodist Church to make disciples of Jesus Christ?” in Quarterly Review, 23/4 (Winter 2003), pp. 425–431.
“On Marriage: A Sermon,” in Zion’s Herald 178/1 (January–February 2004), pp. 7ff.
“”Toward a Theology of World Religions: The Existential Threats,” in The Stranger’s Religion: Fascination and Fear. Edited by Anna Lannstrom. Notre Dame, Indiana: Notre Dame University Press, 2004. pp. 113–130.
“The Role of Concepts of God in Cross Cultural Comparative Theology,” in Philosophy of Religion for a New Century: Essays in Honor of Eugene Thomas Long.
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“How To Read Scriptures for Religious Truth,” in When Judaism and Christianity Began: Essays in Memory of Anthony F. Saldarini. Edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck, Daniel Harrington, and Jacob Neusner. Volume II: Judaism and Christianity in the Beginning. pp. 601–621. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2004. pp. 601–621.
“On the Conditions for Systematic Theology in a Global Public,” in Religious Apologetics—Philosophical Argumentation, edited by Yossef Schwartz and Volkhard Krech. Tuebingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2004. pp. 9–24.
“Metaphysics and World Philosophy: W. E. Hocking on Chinese Philosophy,” in A William Ernest Hocking Reader, with Commentary, edited by John Lachs and D. Micah Hester. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004. pp. 367–381.
“Response to Michael Pye,” in The Future of the Study of Religion: Proceedings of Congress 2000, edited by Slavica Jakelic and Lori Pearson. Boston: Brill, 2004. pp. 97–101.
“David Hall as a Philosopher of Culture,” in China Scholarship 4(2003), pp. 19– 31. In Chinese, published under my Chinese name, Nan Loshan.
“Osoznannoe I Neosozhannoe Mesto Rituala I Gumannosti,” China in the Dialogue of Civilizations: For the 70-year jubilee of Academician Mikhail L. Titarenko. Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences/Institute of Far Eastern Studies/ Pamyatniki Istoricheskoy Mysli, 2004. pp. 653–660. Russian Translation of “The Conscious and Unconscious Placing of Ritual and Humaneness.”
“Contemporary Confucian Spirituality and Multiple Religious Identity,” in Confucian Spirituality, Volume 2. Edited by Tu Weiming and Mary Evelyn Tucker. New York: Crossroad, 2004. pp. 440–462. A much revised version of this essay is chapter 4 of Boston Confucianism.
“Whitehead and Pragmatism,” in Whitehead’s Philosophy: Points of Connection. Edited by Janusz A. Polanowski and Donald W. Sherburne. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004.
“Conscious and Unconscious Placing of Ritual (Li) and Humanity (Ren), in Confucianism in Dialogue Today: West, Christianity, and Judaism. Edited by Liu Shu-Hsien, John Berthrong, and Leonard Swidler. Philadelphia, PA: Ecumenical Press, 2004. Pp. 48-58.
“Naturalism and Supernaturalism in American Theology,” in American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, 26/1&2(January–May 2005), pp. 77–84.
“Carrying Scripture across Imagination,” in Reconsidering the Boundaries between Theological Disciplines, edited by Michael Welker and Friedrich Schweitzer. Muenster: Lit Verlag, 2005. pp. 65–69.
“The Contemporary Mutual Developmnet of Confucianism and Christianity: A Way of Wisdom,” in Wisdom in China and the West: Chinese Philosophical Studies, XXII, edited by Vincent Shen and Willard Oxtoby, Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change Series III, Asia, Volume 22, 2004. General editor George F. McLean, pp. 1–10.
“David Hall as a Philosopher of Culture,” in Metaphilosophy and Chinese Thought: Interpreting David Hall. Edited, with a Prologue, by Ewing Chinn and Henry Rosemont, Jr. New York: Global Scholarly Publications, 2005. pp. 21–34.
“Confucianism and Christianity,” in The New Westminster Dictionary of Christian Spirituality. Edited by Philip Sheldrake
Philip Sheldrake
Philip Sheldrake is a theologian who has been closely involved with the emergence of Christian Spirituality as an academic field.Sheldrake is Past President of the International Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality, and was Leech Professor of Applied Theology at Durham University.His...
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“Symbol and Spirituality,” in The New Westminster Dictionary of Christian Spirituality. Edited by Philip Sheldrake
Philip Sheldrake
Philip Sheldrake is a theologian who has been closely involved with the emergence of Christian Spirituality as an academic field.Sheldrake is Past President of the International Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality, and was Leech Professor of Applied Theology at Durham University.His...
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“Eschatological Visions,” in World without End: Christian Eschatology from a Process Perspective. Edited by Joseph A. Bracken, S.J. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2005. pp. 26–45.
“Religion, Fundamentalismus und die Politik des Weissen Hauses,” in Religioeser Fundamentalismus: Analysen und Kritiken, edited by Stefan Alkier, Hermann Deuser, and Gesche Linde. Tuebingen: Francke Verlag, 2005. pp. 63–79.
“Pragmatism and Theology’s Truth,” in Quarterly Review, 25/3 (Fall 2005), pp. 241–253.
Review of Robert Elliott Allinson, A Metaphysics for the Future, in Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 54 (July 2005). pp. 349–353.
“Comments on Nature’s Religion and Robert Corrington’s ‘Aesthetic Naturalism’,” in American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, 26/3 (September 2005). Pp. 254-262.
“Critical Study of Ian S. Markham, A Theology of Engagement, in Conversations in Religion and Theology 3/2 (November 2005). Pp. 140-150.
“Philosophy of Nature in American Theology.” In Theologie Zwischen Pragmatismus und Existenzdenken, a Festschrift for Hermann Deuser on his 60th birthday. Edited by Gesche Linde, Richard Purkarthofer, Heiko Schulz, and Peter Steinacker. Marburg, Germany: N. G. Elwert, 2006.
“Contemporary Significance of Confucian Values,” in Journal of Yulgok Studies 1/1(Fall, 2005). In English, pp. 9–24; in Korean, pp. 25–39; in Chinese, pp. 41–51.
“Culture, Religion, Nation-States, and Reason in the Politics of Tolerance,” in Tolerance in the Twenty-First Century: Prospects and Challenges. Edited by Gerson Moreno-Riano. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
“Being Philosophic and Having a Philosophy: Reflections to Honor Richard Bernstein,” in The Pragmatic Century: Conversations with Richard Bernstein. Edited by Sheila Greeve Davaney and Warren G. Frisina. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006. pp. 103–109.
“Religionen in einer Welt vieler Kulturen,” in Religion und Kulturkritik. Edited by Thomas M. Schmidt and Matthias Lutz-Bachmann. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2006.
“On the Continuity of Being and Meaning: All Knowing Is Engaged Interpretation,” in the Journal of Chinese Philosophy: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Hermeneutics, 34/1 (March 2007), pp. 49–58.
“The Light of the World,” a sermon, in The Progressive Christian, 181/2 (March/April 2007), pp. 15–17.
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“Response to George Newlands,” Conversations in Religion and Theology, 5/1(2007/1 May), pp. 37–41. Newlands’ review of Neville, “On the Scope and Truth of Theology,” pp. 31–37.
“Auferstehung,” in Zeitschrift fuer Neues Testament, 19(10. Jg. 2007), pp. 46–49.
“Religion and Metaphysics in Late Modernity,” in Metaphysik und Religion: Die Wiederentdeckung eines Zusammenhanges, edited by Hermann Deuser. Guetersloh: Guetersloher Verlagshaus, 2007. pp. 89–101.
“Charles Hartshorne,” an encyclopedia entry in American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia. Edited by John Lachs and Robert Talisse. New York, NY: Routledge, 2008. pp. 358–360.
“Robert Cummings Neville: Autobiography,” an encyclopedia entry in American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia. Edited by John Lachs and Robert Talisse. New York, NY: Routledge, 2008. pp. 544–545.
“Platonism, Influence of,” an encyclopedia entry in American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia. Edited by John Lachs and Robert Talisse. New York, NY: Routledge, 2008. pp. 590–593.
“Paul Weiss,” an encyclopedia entry in American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia. Edited by John Lachs and Robert Talisse. New York, NY: Routledge, 2008. pp. 800–802.
“A Comparison of Confucian and Christian Conceptions of Creativity,” in Dao: a Journal of Comparative Philosophy, 6/2 (June 2007), pp. 125–130.
“More on Jonas and Process Philosophy,” in The Legacy of Hans Jonas: Judaism and the Phenomenon of Life. Edited by Hava Tirosch-Samuelson and Chistian Wiese. Leiden: Brill, 2008. pp. 511–518.
“Cheng Chung-ying’s Constructive Philosophy,” in The Imperative of Understanding: Chinese Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy, and Onto-Hermeneutics: A Tribute Volume Dedicated to Professor Chung-ying Cheng. Edited by On-cho Ng. New York: Global Scholarly Publications, 2008. A Volume in the ACPA Series of Chinese and Comparative Philosophy, sponsored by the Association of Chinese Philosophers in America. pp. 107–121.
“A Letter of Grateful and Affectionate Response to David Ray Griffin’s Whitehead’s Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy: An Argument for Its Contemporary Relevance,” in Process Studies 37/1 (Spring/Summer 2008), pp. 7–38.