Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind

Morris's former students and colleagues will find that these lectures, with their personal references and bits of humour, recall poignantly the man and his thought. In addition, they accomplish his purpose of presenting and criticizing a number of this century's most prominent and plausible attempts to establish communication between secular rationality and religious faith. This survey of philosophical theology in the twentieth century elicits the melancholy reflection that no such attempt was an unqualified success. Not even the most respected of these scholars could win wide acceptance of their theological views from their peers in professional philosophy. On the other hand, ongoing events in both the practical and the intellectual world suggest that if the "religious ground" has not been convincingly explained, neither has it been explained away.