Background
Sontag, Frederick Earl was born on October 2, 1924 in Long Beach, California, United States. Son of M. Burnett and Cornelia (Nicholson) Sontag.
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A Kierkegaard Handbook:
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The Existentialist Prolegomena; To a Future Metaphysics.
(An important book.)
An important book.
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The Existentialist Prolegomena
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How Philosophy Shapes Theology
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The Acts of Trinity
(Followers of any religion should be evaluated first and f...)
Followers of any religion should be evaluated first and foremost by their acts, not by their words. Just as the Trinity can be recognized and made real for Christians by its known Acts, so any follower is recognized, not for what he or she professes by word, but by how he or she acts toward all peoples. This book asks the question―What is distinctive about the action of any religion's claimed discipline? It delves into the fact that all religious leaders and all followers utter words of information or of instruction, but these verbalizations are often subject to misunderstandings, or even are subsequently distorted in their meaning. The standard for understanding must come only from watching what the leader does. Actions can make the religious view stable, but words cannot.
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Descent of Women
( This book is an examination of the roles of men and wom...)
This book is an examination of the roles of men and women and the rise of the feminist movement. The author states: "It is time for all of us, male and female alike, to set this important and massive 'media revolution' into the context of the human animal's long struggle to improve its lot and to take control of its destiny." The Descent of Women is a challenge to excesses of the revolutionary zeal of some writers of the feminist movement. In the course of illustrating the thesis that feminist thinking has yet to mature, particularly if it is to reach balance, self-criticism, and fairness to men, the author introduces the secondary thesis that the feminist movement should stop blaming all men for a long suffering history of women. Men have suffered, too, as the human animal emerged from a moral swamp in which sexual selection has played an important role. The author sees the feminist movement as a contribution to our expanding self-consciousness as a species and, in his criticism of radical feminism, seeks a richer future, not a return to an oppressive past. This book will stimulate controversy and further reflection on one of the most difficult issues of contemporary society.
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Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church
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Book by Sontag, Frederick
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The Mysterious Presence
(In The Mysterious Presence, Frederick Sontag examines the...)
In The Mysterious Presence, Frederick Sontag examines the presence of God as a presence never fully known. Sontag's presentation is similar to the observations of the Medieval mystics, who were aware of God's presence, yet never as direct or fully rational, but rather as a known, but never fully solved mystery. This is in contrast with Descartes and the rational tradition, which saw God as an obvious presence to the rational mind.
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Frederick Earl Sontag
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Education
Bachelor with great distinction, Stanford University, California, 1949. Master of Arts, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1951. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1952.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), College Idaho, 1971.
Career
Instructor Yale University, 1951-1952. Assistant professor philosophy Pomona College, Claremont, California, 1952-1955, associate professor, 1955-1960, professor, 1970—2009, Robert C. Denison professor philosophy, 1972—2009, chairman department philosophy, 1960-1967, 76-77, 1980-1984. Chairman coordinator committee in philosophy Clarement Graduate School and University Center, 1962-1965.
Visiting professor Union Theological Seminary, New York City, 1959-1960, Collegio de Sant' Anselmo, Rome, 1966-1967, University Copenhagen, 1972. Theologian-in-residence American Church in Paris, 1973. Fulbright regional visiting professor, India, East Asia, Pacific areas, 1977-1978.
National advisory council Kent Fellowship Program of Danforth Foundation, 1963-1966.
Achievements
Works
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Uncertain Truth
(Is there 'truth' even if it is not certain and we cannot ...)
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The Mysterious Presence
(In The Mysterious Presence, Frederick Sontag examines the...)
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The Acts of Trinity
(Followers of any religion should be evaluated first and f...)
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Descent of Women
( This book is an examination of the roles of men and wom...)
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Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church
(Book by Sontag, Frederick)
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The Existentialist Prolegomena; To a Future Metaphysics.
(An important book.)
- A Kierkegaard Handbook:
- The Existentialist Prolegomena
- How Philosophy Shapes Theology
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Uncertain Truth
Membership
President board directors Claremont Family Service, 1960-1964. Trustee The Coro Foundation, Los Angeles and San Francisco, 1967-1971. Board directors, chairman ways and means committee Pilgrim Place, Claremont, 1970-1977.
With Army of the United States, 1943-1946. Member of American Philosophical Association, Metaphys. Society of America, Society on Religion in Higher Education (Kent fellow 1950-1952), American Academy Religion, Phi Beta Kappa.
Connections
Married Carol Furth, June 10, 1950. Children: Grant Furth, Anne Burnett Karch.
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Died
June 14, 2009 (aged 84)
Education
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1949
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1951
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1952
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1971
Career
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1951 - 1952
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1952 - 1955
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1962 - 1965
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Visiting scholar Center for Study Japanese Religions, Kyoto, Japan, spring 1974. Visiting fellow East-West Center, Honolulu, summer 1974. Wig Distinguished professor award, 1970, 76, Medal of Merit, Pomona College Board Trustees, 2009.Visiting scholar Center for Study Japanese Religions, Kyoto, Japan, spring 1974. Visiting fellow East-West Center, Honolulu, summer 1974. Wig Distinguished professor award, 1970, 76, Medal of Merit, Pomona College Board Trustees, 2009.