Philosophy for understanding theology /
Allen, Diogenes.
Philosophy for understanding theology / Diogenes Allen and Eric O. Springsted. - 2nd ed. - Louisville, KE : Westminster John Knox Press, c2007. - xxv, 267 p. ; pbk ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-259) and index.
Plato: the world is the handiwork of a mind -- Plato: this world is not our home -- The platonic tradition: the stoics, plotinus, pseudo-dionysius -- Aristotle: his categories and the mystery of god -- Aristotle and the creation of scholastic theology -- Aquinas' program and two critics: karl barth and process theology -- The beginnings of the modem world: nominalism, humanism -- The scientific revolution -- Early modem philosophy: rationalism, empiricism, the enlightenment -- Kant and the limits of knowledge -- Hegel and the restoration of optimism -- The search for meaning in contemporary philosophy: -- Existentialism, phenomenology, and, hermeneutics -- Postmodernism: truth, objectivity and certainty -- Postmodernism: moral philosophy.
9780664231804 (alk. paper) 0664231802 (alk. paper)
2007009965
Philosophical theology.
Philosophy--History.
Christianity--Philosophy.
230.01/ALL
Philosophy for understanding theology / Diogenes Allen and Eric O. Springsted. - 2nd ed. - Louisville, KE : Westminster John Knox Press, c2007. - xxv, 267 p. ; pbk ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-259) and index.
Plato: the world is the handiwork of a mind -- Plato: this world is not our home -- The platonic tradition: the stoics, plotinus, pseudo-dionysius -- Aristotle: his categories and the mystery of god -- Aristotle and the creation of scholastic theology -- Aquinas' program and two critics: karl barth and process theology -- The beginnings of the modem world: nominalism, humanism -- The scientific revolution -- Early modem philosophy: rationalism, empiricism, the enlightenment -- Kant and the limits of knowledge -- Hegel and the restoration of optimism -- The search for meaning in contemporary philosophy: -- Existentialism, phenomenology, and, hermeneutics -- Postmodernism: truth, objectivity and certainty -- Postmodernism: moral philosophy.
9780664231804 (alk. paper) 0664231802 (alk. paper)
2007009965
Philosophical theology.
Philosophy--History.
Christianity--Philosophy.
230.01/ALL
