Experimenting with Truth

1. Technology's Need for Religion's Hegemony


1.0 A Synoptic Introduction


1.1 The Modern Context, Dominated by Science and Technology


1.2 Good News: Present Shock: Coming Relief


1.3 Emergence of International Technology as the World Power and Philosophy


1.4 The Bad News: Probability of Calamity


1.5 Differing Public Responses to the Present Situation


1.6 A Christian Way: A Strong Hand on the Tiller and a Good Compass


2. Reality: Where Religion and Science Meet as Equals


2.0 Synopsis


2.1 A New Approach to the Problems of "God Language"


2.2 The Goal: A Credible Science-Reinforced Theology


2.3 How Humans Learn about Reality


2.4 Finding through Reality


2.5 Forming Our Image of Reality: Multidirectional, Multispectral, Multifocal


2.6 Our Many Selves and How They Perceive Nature and Society


2.7 Reality Viewed by Our Many Selves


2.8 The Dis-Integrated Views of the Selves


2.9 The Human Cyclops: Integrating Similar Signals


2.10 The Brahma Posture: Universal Integration


2.11 Completing a Contemporary Sculpture of Reality


2.12 Science and Religion: A Clarified Complementarity


2.13 Needed: A Set of Instructions, a Zoom Lens, and an Experimental Attitude


3. Experimenting with Truth: Doing Theology


3.0 Through Reality to


3.1 Transcending Reality: Who Says There Is a Beyond?


3.2 Approaching Limitations Imposed by our Humanity


3.3 Finding Translucency of the Personal Dimension


3.4 Holism as the Precondition to Relating to


3.5 Doing the Truth: Humanity Relates to


3.6 Reality Theology: Retrospect and Prospect

Index

Acknowledgments