Faithful to the Earth Nietzsche and Whitehead on God and the Meaning of Human Life

by Howe, Thomas J.

• ISBN13: 9780742514447
• ISBN10: 0742514447
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-17
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Faithful to the Earth, winner of the Bross Prize for Christian Scholarship that is awarded only once every 10 years, goes way beyond contrasting the theist with the atheist. J. Thomas Howe argues that Alfred North Whitehead's understanding of God lays the foundation for a religious life strikingly similar to that described in Friedrich Nietzsche's tragic, but affirmative, philosophy.

Author Biography

J. Thomas Howe is a professorial lecturer in theology at Georgetown University. He serves on the Board of Distinguished Visitors at the School of Religion at Claremont Graduate University.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	vii
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(10)
The Death of God and the Problem of Nihilism	11	(20)
The Rise and Development of the Christian Moral Interpretation, Part 1: Socratic Platonism	31	(24)
The Rise and Development of the Christian Moral Interpretation, Part 2: Christianity and Kantian Philosophy	55	(16)
Nietzsche and the Life of Affirmation	71	(20)
Whitehead's Criticism of the Classical Christian Doctrine of God	91	(20)
The Life and the Sense of the World	111	(16)
Whitehead's View of God and the Religious Life	127	(32)
Conclusion	159	(12)
Bibliography	171	(8)
Index	179	(5)
About the Author	184