Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Ultimates defined. Sacred canopies
  • Reference, reduction, philosophy, and metaphysics
  • Symbolic engagement
  • Worldviews
  • Part II. Ultimates symbolized. Ultimate reality and ultimate concern
  • Toward transcendent symbols of ultimacy
  • Toward intimate symbols of ultimacy
  • Ultimacy in theological framing : ontology and narrative
  • Part III. Ultimates demonstrated. The metaphysics of ontological ultimacy
  • The metaphysics of cosmological ultimacy
  • Proof of an ultimate ontological creative act
  • The ontological ultimate : an act of creation
  • Part IV. Ultimates known. What can be known about ultimacy
  • What cannot be known about ultimacy
  • Symbolic engagement as praying the ultimate
  • Mystical engagement