Neville, Robert C(ummings)

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NEVILLE, Robert C(ummings)

NEVILLE, Robert C(ummings). American, b. 1939. Genres: Philosophy, Theology/Religion. Career: Professor of Religion, Philosophy, and Theology, 1987-, and Dean of the School of Theology, 1988-, Boston University. Instructor, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1963-65; Assistant Professor, 1965-68, and Associate Professor, 1968-71, Fordham University, NYC; ordained as Elder, United Methodist Church, 1966; Associate for Behavioral Sciences, Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences, Hastings, NY, 1971-73; Associate Professor, 1971-74, and Professor, 1974-77, State University of New York at Purchase; Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1978-87 (Dean of Humanities and Arts, 1982-85; Religion Dept., 1987-88). Publications: God the Creator, 1968; The Cosmology of Freedom, 1974; Soldier, Sage, Saint, 1978; Creativity and God, 1980; Reconstruction of Thinking, 1981; The Tao and the Daimon, 1982; The Puritan Smile, 1987; Recovery of the Measure, 1989; Behind the Masks of God, 1991; A Theology Primer, 1991; The Highroad around Modernism, 1992; Eternity and Time's Flow, 1993; Normative Cultures, 1995; The Truth of Broken Symbols, 1996; The God Who Beckons, 1999; Boston Confucianism, 2001; Symbols of Jesus, 2001; Religion in Late Modernity, 2002. EDITOR: (with W. Gaylin and G. Meister) Operating on the Mind, 1975; New Essays in Metaphysics, 1987; The Human Condition, 2001; Ultimate Realities, 2001; Religious Truth, 2001. Address: School of Theology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, U.S.A.