Communication, John Dewey's Sacred Quest: The Pragmatic Church and Catholic Pragmatism

This work explores the possibility of constructing a metaphor in order to facilitate communication. The problem was addressed was denoted by Stephen Rockefeller, a misunderstanding of John Dewey’s religious philosophy by fundamentalists. The point of departure is one which Dewey himself suggested in his eulogy for William James. This work explores the reasons and causes for the misunderstanding as well as methods of possible amelioration. The proposed means of overcoming the aforementioned misunderstanding is to construct a metaphor that will have the effect of communicating the position of the pragmatist to that of the fundamentalist. In order to do this a previously existing metaphor, that of the pragmatic hotel, will be reconstructed into the pragmatic church. The resulting metaphor connotes a position that is more acceptable to the fundamentalist thus facilitating communication.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

Campus Only Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Philosophy

Year

2017

Author dc:creator

• Millis, Daniel Isaac

Contributors dc:contributor

• Stikkers, Kenneth

• Communication
• Dewey
• Fundamentalism
• Religion

Repository record dc:identifier

https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1374

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:opensiuc.lib.siu.edu:dissertations-2378