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<span>The practice and task of the philosophical interpretation of Scripture has been treated as a conversation-stopper within the academy. This collection corrects that tendency by offering substantive accounts of the role of Scripture in the philosophical thought of fifteen American philosophers.</span>

<span>Acknowledgments</span>
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<span>Introduction</span>
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<span>Section 1. Reading Genesis and Job with American Philosophers</span>
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<span>1. Ann W. Duncan &amp; Jacob L. Goodson, “Immortal Eve”? Genesis 1-3 in Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth Century </span>
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<span>2. Edward F. Mooney, “In Demonstration of the Spirit”: Henry Bugbee’s Meditations on the Book of Job</span>
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<span>Section 2. Reading the Prophets with American Philosophers </span>
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<span>3. William J. Danaher Jr., “Fire Enfolding Itself”: Jonathan Edwards and the Merkabah </span>
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<span>4. Willie Young, Gathering the Wild Fruits of Scripture: Henry David Thoreau’s Philosophical Interpretations of Scripture</span>
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<span>5. Lawrence Ware, The Black Prophetic Tradition: Cornel West, Abraham Heschel, and the Biblical Prophets </span>
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<span>Section 3. Philosophical Interpretations of the Synoptic Gospels</span>
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<span>6. Jacob L. Goodson, “Ye Shall Know Them By Their Fruits”: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Interpretation of Jesus’ Logical Rule</span>
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<span>7. John R. Shook, Let the Philosophers Bury Their Own Dead: Matthew 8 and Luke 9 in John Dewey’s Philosophy</span>
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<span>Section 4. Moral Interpretations of the Synoptic Gospels</span>
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<span>8. Ann W. Duncan, The Impossibility of Complacency: Scripture in the Life and Work of Jane Addams</span>
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<span>9. Jacob L. Goodson, Secrecy and Suffering: The Sermon on the Mount in George Santayana’s The Idea of Christ </span>
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<span>10. Eric Reitan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Scripture, and the Ethics of Love</span>
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<span>Section 5. Reading John’s Gospel and Epistles with American Philosophers</span>
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<span>11. David O’Hara, Agapic Love as the Sole Principle of Logic: John’s Gospel, John’s Epistles, and C. S. Peirce’s Philosophy</span>
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<span>12. William Elkins, What Is the Problem of Christianity? Echoes of John’s Theology in Josiah Royce’s Absolute Idealism</span>
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<span>Section 6. Reading 1 Corinthians with American Philosophers</span>
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<span>13. Jacob L. Goodson and Quinlan C. Stein, William James on the Doctrine of Transubstantiation: American Transcendentalism vs. Roman Catholicism</span>
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<span>14. Peter Dula, “Putting Away Childish Things”: Six Scenes of Instruction in Stanley Cavell’s Little Did I Know</span>
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<span>15. Jacob L. Goodson, “And the Greatest of These Is Love”: Richard Rorty’s Turn to Scripture</span>
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<span>Section 7. On the Philosophical Interpretation of Traditionally Sacred Texts</span>
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<span>16. Roger Ward, How Jonathan Edwards Reads the Christian Scriptures</span>
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<span>17. Isra Yazicioglu, How C. S. Peirce’s Pragmatism Helps for Interpreting the Qur’an</span>
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<span>About the Contributors</span>

<span>Jacob L. Goodson</span>
<span> is assistant professor of philosophy at Southwestern College. </span>

<p><span>1/7/2021 - The Damn the Absolute! Podcast </span><span>interviewed contributor David O’Hara and discussed his chapter in the book in an episode titled “Ep. 7 Charles Peirce and Inquiry as an Act of Love with David O’Hara.” Link: <a href="https://erraticus.co/2021/01/06/charles-sanders-peirce-inquiry-community-david-ohara/"><span>https://erraticus.co/2021/01/06/charles-sanders-peirce-inquiry-community-david-ohara/</span></a></span></p>