Demian Wheeler is Associate Professor of Philosophical Theology and Religious Studies and Director of Advanced Studies at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. He is the coeditor (with David E. Conner) of Conceiving an Alternative: Philosophical Resources for an Ecological Civilization.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. What Is Historicism? A Multileveled Definition2. Historical Particularity and the Problem of Insularity: Pragmatic Historicism as a Bigger Historicism3. Particularist Mutualism: Toward a Pragmatic Historicist Theology of Religions4. After Incommensurability: Pragmatic Historicism as an Impetus for Meaningful Interreligious Engagement5. Beyond Amnesia and Nostalgia: Pragmatic Historicism and the Authority of the Past6. Truth Reconsidered: Building Blocks of a Paleopragmatic Historicism7. Theological Truth Reconsidered: Four Traits of a Paleopragmatic Historicist Theology8. Sacred Conventions, Sacred Nature: Toward a Pragmatic Historicist Theology of the DivineConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"This is a work of both descriptive and prescriptive (constructive) theology. It is about ideas: dense, challenging, evocative, and provocative … the author's broader themes, among them experimental theologies of religion and the divine and non-competitive ways to understand the world's many religious traditions, will be compelling to anyone interested in how some theologians are addressing ever-evolving conversations about authenticity, credibility, religious pluralism, and 'truth' in contemporary religious thought and life." — Journal of Lutheran Ethics"The detailed development, the verbal bravura, and the measured knowledge in this book are astonishingly impressive." — American Journal of Theology and Philosophy"Wheeler makes a significant contribution to the field of empirical theology and specifically to the field of pragmatic historicism. This book is a detailed, thorough, and nuanced treatment of the historical development of pragmatic historicism, and as a detailed history of an important strand in American religious thought, it makes a major contribution to an understanding of religion worldwide." — Daniel A. Dombrowski, author of Whitehead's Religious Thought: From Mechanism to Organism, From Force to Persuasion"Wheeler is advancing not merely a position and argument, but a project and an agenda, and doing so with grace and verve. This is a very impressive book that will command the attention of all serious scholars working in the liberal theological traditions. It is a breathtakingly comprehensive, invigorating synthesis of the historicist, pragmatist, and naturalist lineages in American philosophy and theology." — Michael S. Hogue, author of American Immanence: Democracy for an Uncertain World

Demian Wheeler is Associate Professor of Philosophical Theology and Religious Studies and Director of Advanced Studies at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. He is the coeditor (with David E. Conner) of Conceiving an Alternative: Philosophical Resources for an Ecological Civilization.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. What Is Historicism? A Multileveled Definition2. Historical Particularity and the Problem of Insularity: Pragmatic Historicism as a Bigger Historicism3. Particularist Mutualism: Toward a Pragmatic Historicist Theology of Religions4. After Incommensurability: Pragmatic Historicism as an Impetus for Meaningful Interreligious Engagement5. Beyond Amnesia and Nostalgia: Pragmatic Historicism and the Authority of the Past6. Truth Reconsidered: Building Blocks of a Paleopragmatic Historicism7. Theological Truth Reconsidered: Four Traits of a Paleopragmatic Historicist Theology8. Sacred Conventions, Sacred Nature: Toward a Pragmatic Historicist Theology of the DivineConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"This is a work of both descriptive and prescriptive (constructive) theology. It is about ideas: dense, challenging, evocative, and provocative … the author's broader themes, among them experimental theologies of religion and the divine and non-competitive ways to understand the world's many religious traditions, will be compelling to anyone interested in how some theologians are addressing ever-evolving conversations about authenticity, credibility, religious pluralism, and 'truth' in contemporary religious thought and life." — Journal of Lutheran Ethics"The detailed development, the verbal bravura, and the measured knowledge in this book are astonishingly impressive." — American Journal of Theology and Philosophy"Wheeler makes a significant contribution to the field of empirical theology and specifically to the field of pragmatic historicism. This book is a detailed, thorough, and nuanced treatment of the historical development of pragmatic historicism, and as a detailed history of an important strand in American religious thought, it makes a major contribution to an understanding of religion worldwide." — Daniel A. Dombrowski, author of Whitehead's Religious Thought: From Mechanism to Organism, From Force to Persuasion"Wheeler is advancing not merely a position and argument, but a project and an agenda, and doing so with grace and verve. This is a very impressive book that will command the attention of all serious scholars working in the liberal theological traditions. It is a breathtakingly comprehensive, invigorating synthesis of the historicist, pragmatist, and naturalist lineages in American philosophy and theology." — Michael S. Hogue, author of American Immanence: Democracy for an Uncertain World

Demian Wheeler is Associate Professor of Philosophical Theology and Religious Studies and Director of Advanced Studies at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. He is the coeditor (with David E. Conner) of Conceiving an Alternative: Philosophical Resources for an Ecological Civilization.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. What Is Historicism? A Multileveled Definition2. Historical Particularity and the Problem of Insularity: Pragmatic Historicism as a Bigger Historicism3. Particularist Mutualism: Toward a Pragmatic Historicist Theology of Religions4. After Incommensurability: Pragmatic Historicism as an Impetus for Meaningful Interreligious Engagement5. Beyond Amnesia and Nostalgia: Pragmatic Historicism and the Authority of the Past6. Truth Reconsidered: Building Blocks of a Paleopragmatic Historicism7. Theological Truth Reconsidered: Four Traits of a Paleopragmatic Historicist Theology8. Sacred Conventions, Sacred Nature: Toward a Pragmatic Historicist Theology of the DivineConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"This is a work of both descriptive and prescriptive (constructive) theology. It is about ideas: dense, challenging, evocative, and provocative … the author's broader themes, among them experimental theologies of religion and the divine and non-competitive ways to understand the world's many religious traditions, will be compelling to anyone interested in how some theologians are addressing ever-evolving conversations about authenticity, credibility, religious pluralism, and 'truth' in contemporary religious thought and life." — Journal of Lutheran Ethics"The detailed development, the verbal bravura, and the measured knowledge in this book are astonishingly impressive." — American Journal of Theology and Philosophy"Wheeler makes a significant contribution to the field of empirical theology and specifically to the field of pragmatic historicism. This book is a detailed, thorough, and nuanced treatment of the historical development of pragmatic historicism, and as a detailed history of an important strand in American religious thought, it makes a major contribution to an understanding of religion worldwide." — Daniel A. Dombrowski, author of Whitehead's Religious Thought: From Mechanism to Organism, From Force to Persuasion"Wheeler is advancing not merely a position and argument, but a project and an agenda, and doing so with grace and verve. This is a very impressive book that will command the attention of all serious scholars working in the liberal theological traditions. It is a breathtakingly comprehensive, invigorating synthesis of the historicist, pragmatist, and naturalist lineages in American philosophy and theology." — Michael S. Hogue, author of American Immanence: Democracy for an Uncertain World