Charles Peirce's unpragmatic christianity: A rabbinic appraisal

American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 9 (1/2):41 - 74 (1988)
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Abstract

The great American philosopher, Charles Peirce, calls his pragmatism a continuation of Jesus' teaching, "Ye may know them by their fruit," and labels his cosmology a doctrine of "Christian Love." Nonetheless, I have found Peirce's understanding of Christianity to be surprisingly unpragmatic. Peirce's pragmatism itself displays an unpragmatic side and the tension between his pragmatic and unpragmatic tendencies reappears in his philosophic theology. I am not certain what a consistently pragmatic Christian theology would look like, but I know pragmatism is the rule rather than the exception in rabbinic Judaism, that is the classical, post-Biblical Judaism of the Talmud. In this paper, therefore, I evaluate Peirce's pragmatism and his Christian theology from the perspective of the rabbis.

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Peter Ochs
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Charles Sanders Peirce and Henry James the Elder.Richard Louis Trammell - 1973 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 9 (4):202 - 220.

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