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 God and the World of Signs: Trinity, Evolution, and the Metaphysical Semiotics of C. S. Peirce

Contents

• • Preliminary Material (i-xiv)   (99K)
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    • Contents
    • Acknowledgements
    • Abbreviations
  • Introduction (1-14)   (72K)
  • Peirce's Metaphysical Semiotics (15-60)   (161K)
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    • 1.1 A World Perfused With Signs
    • 1.2 Peirce’s Categories: Firstness, Secondness And Thirdness
    • 1.3 Peirce’s Semiotics
    • 1.4 Peirce’s Theory Of Inquiry
  • A Semiotic Model Of The Trinity (61-112)   (185K)
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    • 2.1 The Son/Word And Secondness
    • 2.2 The Father And Firstness
    • 2.3 The Spirit And Thirdness
    • 2.4 Persons, Relations, And Perichoresis
    • 2.5 Peirce And The Trinity
  • Semiotics, Incarnation And Anthropology (113-178)   (215K)
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    • 3.1 Incarnation And Peirce’s Taxonomy Of Signs
    • 3.2 Semiotics And Christology
    • 3.3 Semiotics And Palaeo-Anthropology
    • 3.4 Semiotics And Theological Anthropology
  • Evolution, Theology And Biosemiotics (179-220)   (150K)
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    • 4.1 Darwinism And Theology
    • 4.2 Interpretation, Teleology, And The Origin Of Life
  • Vestiges Of The Trinity In Creation (221-278)   (192K)
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    • 5.1 Peirce’s Evolutionary Cosmology
    • 5.2 Braiding The Strands: Towards A Trinitarian Theology Of Nature
    • 5.3 Vestiges Of The Trinity In Creation
  • Metaphysics And The Architecture Of Knowledge (279-312)   (128K)
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    • 6.1 Metaphysics And The Architecture Of Theories
    • 6.2 Natural Theology And Revelation
    • 6.3 A ‘Cosmological Argument’ From The Universes Of Experience
  • Guesses At Some Riddles (313-336)   (104K)
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    • 7.1 Trinitarian Selfhood: Psyche, Society Or Semiosis?
    • 7.2 Two Guesses About Firstness
  • Epilogue: If The Fathers Had Known Peirce (337-354)   (84K)
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    • 8.1 From Nicaea To Constantinople: Standard View
    • 8.2 Nicaea To Constantinople: Lateral View
    • 8.3 Credo
  • Bibliography (355-368)   (84K)
  • Index Of Names (369-372)   (36K)
  • Index Of Subjects (373-382)   (62K)