Philosophy for Understanding Theology

by Allen, Diogenes

• ISBN13: 9780664231804
• ISBN10: 0664231802
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-17
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services
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Summary

Philosophy for Understanding Theologyhas become the classic text for exploring the relationship between philosophy and Christian theology. This new edition adds chapters on postmodernism and questions of the self and the good to bring the book up to date with current scholarship. It introduces students to the influence that key philosophers and philosophical movements through the centuries have had on shaping Christian theology in both its understandings and forms of expression.

Author Biography

Diogenes Allen is Stuart Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: The Foundation of Christian Theology: The World Was Created	p. xv
Plato: The World Is the Handiwork of a Mind	p. 1
Plato: This World Is Not Our Home	p. 21
The Platonic Tradition: The Stoics, Plotinus, and Pseudo-Dionysius	p. 39
Aristotle: His Categories and the Mystery of God	p. 65
Aristotle and the Creation of Scholastic Theology	p. 77
Aquinas's Program and Two Critics: Karl Barth and Process Theology	p. 103
The Beginnings of the Modern World: Nominalism, Humanism, the Scientific Revolution	p. 113
Early Modern Philosophy: Rationalism, Empiricism, the Enlightenment	p. 129
Kant and the Limits of Knowledge	p. 155
Hegel and the Restoration of Optimism	p. 169
The Search for Meaning in Contemporary Philosophy: Existentialism, Phenomenology, and Hermeneutics	p. 187
Postmodernism: Truth, Objectivity, and Certainty	p. 209
Postmodernism: Moral Philosophy	p. 231
Notes	p. 253
Suggested Reading	p. 257
Index	p. 261
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