Faith and Freedom: An Interfaith Perspective

by David B. Burrell (University of Notre Dame)

• ISBN13: 9781405137607
• ISBN10: 1405137606
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

In this book, David Burrell, one of the foremost philosophical theologians in the English-speaking world, presents the best of his work on creation and human freedom. A collection of writings by one of the foremost philosophers of religion in the English-speaking world. Brings together in one volume the best of David Burrell's work on creation and human freedom from the last twenty years. Dismantles the 'libertarian' approach to freedom underlying Western political and economic systems. Engages with Islam, Judaism and Christianity, and with modern and pre-modern systems of thought. The author is noted for his rigorous approach, his wry humor, his intellectual subtlety and his generous spirit.

Table of Contents

Preface

Prologue

Acknowledgements

Creator/Creation Relation:

Distinguishing God from the World

The Unknowability of God in al-Ghazali

Why not Pursue the Metaphor of Artisan and View God's Knowledge as Practical?

Maimonides, Aquinas and Gersonides on Providence and Evil

Aquinas' Debt to Maimonides

Creation and `Actualism': The Dialectical Dimension of Philosophical Theology

Aquinas and Scotus: Contrary Patterns for Philosophical Theology

From Analogy of 'Being' to the Analogy of Being

Divine Freedom and Human Freedom:

The Challenge to Medieval Christian Philosophy: Relating Creator to Creatures

Freedom and Creation in the Abrahamic Traditions

Al-Ghazali on Created Freedom

Creation, Will and Knowledge in Aquinas and Duns Scotus

Interfaith Encounter:

God, Religious Pluralism, and Dialogic Encounter

The Christian Distinction Celebrated and Expanded

Incarnation and Creation: The Hidden Dimension

Assessing Statements of Faith: Augustine and Etty Hillesum

Index

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