Ultimate Realities: A Volume in the Comparative Religious Ideas Project (Comparative Rel Ideas

by Robert Cummings Neville (Editor), Tu Wei-Ming (Foreword)

Robert Cummings Neville is Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology at Boston University, and Dean of the School of Theology. He has written many books, including most recently, Behind the Masks of An Essay Toward Comparative Theology; Normative Cultures; The Truth of Broken Symbols ; and Boston Portable Tradition in the Late-Modern World , all published by SUNY Press.

391 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2000

About the author

Robert Cummings Neville (born May 1, 1939 in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.) is an American systematic philosopher and theologian, author of numerous books and papers, and ex-Dean of the Boston University School of Theology. J. Harley Chapman and Nancy Frankenberry, editors of a festchrift—a collection of critical essays written in Neville's honor—entitled Interpreting Neville, consider him to be "one of the most significant philosophers and theologians of our time". Neville was Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and has taught at Yale, Fordham, and the State University of New York Purchase. He is now a professor at Boston University He was granted a Doctorate honoris causa by the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Far Eastern Studies in 1996.