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God and the World of Signs: Trinity, Evolution, and the Metaphysical Semiotics of C. S. Peirce
Author(s): Andrew Robinson (Author)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: September 24, 2010
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 396 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004187995
- ISBN-13: 9789004187993
Book Description
Christianity has been described as “a religion seeking a metaphysic”. Drawing on the philosophy of C. S. Peirce, Robinson develops a metaphysical framework centred around a ‘semiotic model’ of the Trinity. The model invites a fresh approach to the claim that Jesus was the incarnate Word of God and suggests a new way of understanding how nature may bear the imprint of the Triune Creator in the form of ‘vestiges of the Trinity in creation’. Scientific spin-offs include a new perspective on the problem of the origin of life and a novel hypothesis about the evolution of human distinctiveness. The result is an original contribution to Trinitarian theology and a bold new way of integrating philosophy, science and religion.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“In conclusion, God and the World of Signs is remarkably well written, clear in structure and thought, and impressive in scope. The reader can follow the ambitious argument from page one and is helped all the way through by careful introductions and summaries at the beginning and end of each chapter. (…) This is a unique contribution, especially in regard to the relationship between the theology of the Trinity and Peircean semiotics.” Johanne Stubbe Teglbjærg Kristensen, University of Copenhagen, in: Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences Vol. 3.1 (2016).
“As systematically ambitious as the great systematic theologies of the past, resonating with the spirit of an Augustine or a Thomas Aquinas. … Philosophers in the great traditions, East and West, will be pleased; systematic religious thinkers will discern one of their own; and even skeptics may be intrigued, even if in the end they can only shake their heads at the sheer chutzpah of it all!” Philip Clayton,
Claremont School of Theology.“This is the first comprehensively Trinitarian reading of Peirce as well as the most thorough exploration yet published of Peircian semiotics for science-and-religion research.” Gary Slater,
Oxford University, in: American Journal of Theology and PhilosophyAbout the Author
Andrew Robinson is Honorary University Fellow in Theology at the University of Exeter. He took a degree in Physiology (BSc, Bristol, 1985) before qualifying in Medicine (MB ChB 1988) and subsequently undertaking doctoral research in Theology (PhD, Exeter, 2003).
