Metaphor, Analogy, and the Place of Places

Dr. Carl G. Vaught was appointed Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University in 1998. He received his B.A. from Baylor in 1961, where he graduated summa cum laude and received the Alpha Chi Scholarship Award as the valedictorian of his class. He attended Yale University as a Woodrow Wilson and a Danforth Graduate Fellow and received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale in 1966. Before he came to Baylor, he taught in the Philosophy Department at Penn State for thirty-one years where he directed the dissertations of twenty-nine graduate students and he served as Head of the Department of Philosophy from 1982 to 1992. He became a Fellow of the Society of Philosophy in America in 1987, was affiliated with Oriel College in Oxford in 1990-91, and was a Distinguished Alumnus at Baylor in 1993. His principal philosophical interests are metaphysics, the philosophy of religion, and the history of philosophy.

• PrefaceList of AbbreviationsPART ONE: The Relation Between Religion and Philosophy1. The Origins, the Context, and the Language of Religion and Philosophy2. A New Conception of the History of Philosophy3. Athens and JerusalemPART TWO: Augustine, Hegel, Heidegger, and Jaspers4. The Rhetoric of Augustine's Confessions5. Immanence and Transcendence in Augustine's Confessions6. Hegel and the Problem of Difference7. Being and Existenz in Heidegger and JaspersPART THREE: Mystery, Power, and Structure8. The Quest for Wholeness9. Being and God10. Metaphor, Analogy, and the Nature of TruthNotesIndex

Only someone as well-versed in Anglo-American analytical philosophy's demand for rigor and clarity could tread so nimbly where such philosophers rarely venture, namely, in relating Being and God to time and space as well as relating Continental philosophers such as Hegel and Heidegger to ancient and medieval philosophers. Vaught offers a grand philosophical vision with deft attention to detail, promising medieval philosophy as the bridge that can span mystery and structure, metaphor and realism, Being and God. --Dan R. Stiver, Hardin-Simmons University and author of Theology After Ricoeur