Charles Sanders Peirce developed a mature Christian faith under the influence of his father Benjamin Peirce and Frederic Dan Huntington, a teacher and pastor at Harvard. Peirce's Christian self-understanding and concern shape the development of his philosophical logic as well as the development and refinement of pragmatism.
Introduction
I. Why Peirce, Why Christianity
II. Conversion to Logic
III. Conversion to Community
IV. Peirce's Work for the Church: Waiting for God
V. Knowledge and Transformation
VI. Real Obedience: from Pragmatism to Pragmaticism
VII. Science and the Persistent Reality of God
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Roger Ward is professor of philosophy at Georgetown College.