A Semiotic Theory of Theology and Philosophy
Robert S. Corrington
Cambridge University Press, 2000 - 268 pages
The
concern of this work is with developing an alternative to standard
categories in theology and philosophy, especially in terms of how they
deal with nature. Avoiding the polemics of much contemporary reflection
on nature, its hows how we are connected to nature through the
unconscious and its unique way of reading and processing signs.
Spinoza's key distinction between natura naturans and natura naturata
serves as the governing framework for the treatise. Suggestions are made
for a post-Christian way of understanding religion. Robert S.
Corrington's work represents the first sustained attempt to bring
together the fields of semiotics, depth-psychology, pragmaticism, and a
post-Monotheistic theology of nature. Its focus is on how signification
functions in human and non-human orders of infinite nature. Our
connection with the infinite is described in detail, especially as it
relates to the use of sign systems.
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