Roger Ward is professor of philosophy at Georgetown College.

• IntroductionI. Why Peirce, Why ChristianityII. Conversion to LogicIII. Conversion to CommunityIV. Peirce’s Work for the Church: Waiting for GodV. Knowledge and TransformationVI. Real Obedience: from Pragmatism to Pragmaticism VII. Science and the Persistent Reality of GodBibliography

C. S. Peirce (1839–1914) is widely known among philosophers as an important, if idiosyncratic, logician. In this book Ward (Georgetown College) argues that Peirce is a religious philosopher and that his life's work was guided by his theological views. Ward proceeds both systematically through Peirce's work and biographically through the philosopher's life. Ward contends that Peirce saw religion and science (including especially logic) not as rivals or contraries, as many might expect, but as working in tandem to produce an understanding of reality. According to the author, this view of science and religion can be found in all of Peirce's work and indeed provides an interpretative key to it. Moreover, Ward suggests that this view of Peirce and his work offers a new way to look at American philosophy.Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, faculty.