Focusing on the theme of symbols in the thought of the Yale scholar Louis Dupré, this recent study makes a clear contribution to understanding further the role this subject has played throughout Dupré’s life’s work. Levesque, presently in the Department of Comparative Religion at California State University, derived much of the research for this present volume from his Ph.D. dissertation. In addition to four major chapters there is a brief “Foreward” by Dupré, and an extensive bibliography of his work in (...) the concluding section. (shrink)

Edgar A. Towne is Professor of Theology, Emeritus at Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis. This book began as Towne’s 1967 doctoral dissertation in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. The original title, Ontological and Theological Dimensions of God in the Thought of Paul Tillich and Charles Hartshorne, clearly described the intent of his study. While the essential structure and documentation of this earlier form remains, the presentation in this present work is briefer, with additional notes referring to recent study (...) on Tillich and Hartshorne. (shrink)