Religion within the Limits of History Alone: Pragmatic Historicism and the Future of Theology

Shows that pragmatic historicism is a significant intellectual tradition in the history of American religious and philosophical thought.

Among the greatest challenges facing religious thinkers today is that created by historicism, the notion that human beings and their myriad understandings of reality are utterly historical, conditioned by contingent circumstances and tied to particular contexts. In this book, Demian Wheeler confronts the historicist challenge by delineating and defending a ...