Sentences with phrase «american philosophers of religion»

As a matter of fact, a generation and more ago, experiments along this line were made by several prominent American philosophers of religion.

The American philosopher of religion Charles Hartshorne (1897 — 2000) was already pursuing patterns of thought along lines similar to Whitehead when he arrived at Harvard for post-doctoral work in 1925 and became Whitehead's teaching assistant.

The early writings of a young American philosopher of religion, Henry Nelson Wieman, also caught the attention of both Smith and Mathews.

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Perhaps not since the generation of the classic American philosophers — Pierce, Royce, James, Dewey and Mead (none of them technical philosophers in the contemporary meaning of the term)-- has it been possible to range so broadly over the great intellectual issues of the day and break the taboo that would separate religion from secular culture.

Lindbeck observed that in their emphasis upon the function of religious language as propositional information about objective realities, conservative theologians tend to confirm the approach to religion taken by most Anglo - American analytic philosophers.

Curiously, for many years the main interaction with philosophers working in an Anglo - American mode has been through the active participation of Dutch philosophers of religion, led by Vincent Brummer, in the Society for the Study of Theology.