Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One Peirce's Metaphysical Semiotics -- 1.1 A World Perfused With Signs -- 1.2 Peirce's Categories: Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness -- 1.2.1 Peirce's Gift to the World -- 1.2.2 A Priori and Phenomenological Derivation of the Categories -- 1.2.3 Further Features of Firstness -- 1.3 Peirce's Semiotics -- 1.3.1 The Development of Peirce's Theory of Signs -- 1.3.2 Semiotics and the Categories -- 1.3.3 More Kinds of Sign and Further Iterations of the Categories -- 1.4 Peirce's Theory of Inquiry -- 1.4.1 Fallibilism and Inference -- 1.4.2 Pragmatism and Realism -- 1.4.3 Faith, Hope, and Charity: Virtues of the Community of Inquirers -- Chapter Two A Semiotic Model of the Trinity -- 2.1 The Son/Word and Secondness -- 2.1.1 In the Beginning Was the Word -- 2.1.2 Logos as Secondness: Points of Disagreement? -- 2.2 The Father and Firstness -- 2.2.1 The Transcendence of the Father and the Homoousion of the Son -- 2.2.2 Firstness and Ingenerateness -- 2.2.3 Essence and Energies: On Not Knowing God by a Definition -- 2.3 The Spirit and Thirdness -- 2.3.1 The Lord the Giver of Life -- 2.3.2 The Procession of the Spirit -- 2.4 Persons, Relations, and Perichoresis -- 2.4.1 The Problem with Relations -- 2.4.2 A Semiotic Model of the Trinity -- 2.5 Peirce and the Trinity -- Chapter Three Semiotics, Incarnation and Anthropology -- 3.1 Incarnation and Peirce's Taxonomy of Signs -- 3.1.1 Jesus and the Enacted Return of YHWH -- 3.1.2 Jesus' Signs and Peirce's Taxonomy -- 3.1.3 Incarnation as Qualisign -- 3.2 Semiotics and Christology -- 3.2.1 Three Dimensions of Christology -- 3.2.2 Qualisign or Real-symbol?: Peirce vs. Rahner -- 3.2.3 Fused Substances and Broken Symbols: Response to Two Objections -- 3.3 Semiotics and Palaeo-anthropology.

3.3.1 Human Distinctiveness and Hierarchical Semiotics -- 3.3.2 Human Evolution and the Semiotic Matrix -- 3.4 Semiotics and Theological Anthropology -- 3.4.1 Self-Transcendence and the Gift of Abduction -- 3.4.2 Discipleship as Interpretative Transformation -- Chapter Four Evolution, Theology and Biosemiotics -- 4.1 Darwinism and Theology -- 4.1.1 Three Phases of Darwinism -- 4.1.2 Biosemiotics: Resource for a Theology of Nature? -- 4.2 Interpretation, Teleology, and the Origin of Life -- 4.2.1 Defining Purpose and Interpretation -- 4.2.2 Interpretation and the Emergence of Life -- 4.2.3 Biosemiotics vs. Teleosemantics -- Chapter Five Vestiges of the Trinity in Creation -- 5.1 Peirce's Evolutionary Cosmology -- 5.1.1 Biographical Context: Vocation and Destitution -- 5.1.2 Three Modes of Evolution: Chance, Necessity and Love -- 5.2 Braiding the Strands: Towards a Trinitarian Theology of Nature -- 5.2.1 Continuity, Semiosis and Thirdness -- 5.2.2 Contingency, Emergent Novelty, and Firstness -- 5.2.3 Naturalism, Secondness and the Trinitarian Mediation ofCreation -- 5.3 Vestiges of the Trinity in Creation -- 5.3.1 Analogy, Likeness, or Vestige? -- 5.3.2 Two Hands of God -- 5.3.3 The Immanent and Economic Trinity -- Chapter Six Metaphysics and the Architecture of Knowledge -- 6.1 Metaphysics and the Architecture of Theories -- 6.1.1 Do Not Block the Way of Inquiry -- 6.1.2 Cenoscopy and Synthetic Philosophy -- 6.2 Natural Theology and Revelation -- 6.3 A 'Cosmological Argument' From the Universes of Experience -- 6.3.1 Peirce's 'Neglected Argument' -- 6.3.2 A Petite Bouchée with the Categories: Intimations of the Trinity -- Chapter Seven Guesses at Some Riddles -- 7.1 Trinitarian Selfhood: Psyche, Society or Semiosis? -- 7.1.1 Psychological and Social Analogies for the Trinity -- 7.1.2 The Psychological Analogies Re-visited.

7.1.3 The Semiotic Model and Peirce's Approach to the Self -- 7.2 Two Guesses about Firstness -- 7.2.1 The Freedom of the Father and the Goodness of Creation -- 7.2.2 Firstness and the Quest for the Maternal -- Chapter Eight Epilogue: If the Fathers Had Known Peirce -- 8.1 From Nicaea to Constantinople: Standard View -- 8.2 Nicaea to Constantinople: Lateral View -- 8.3 Credo -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Untitled.