Talk:Christian philosophy

message: This article does not meet Wiki standards for writing. It is filled with OR--original research. If has been unsourced for a long time. It should be scheduled for deletion.Afaprof01 04:48, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources a MUST! 

message: VOTE: DELETE ARTICLE. I agree that the article is very poorly written and contains what seems to be homespun (OR) understanding of both Christianity and philosophy. The attributions about Jesus are unclear and misleading. The fact that this article has been around so long without ANY citations from reputable sources makes it very suspect and essentially worthless. Oberlin 03:35, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed deletion 

message: Isn't this both an oxymoron and a misnomer?!?!?!
--Carlon 20:13, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Problem with Christian Philosophy!!! 

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 03:51, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: After reading this article, I must say that it makes me think it was written by an atheist!
66.74.230.117 (talk) 21:17, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  atheist...? 

message: The opening paragraphs of this article are deeply problematic.  The definition of Christian philosophy as "the fusion of various fields of philosophy with the theological doctrines of Christianity" is refuted by the contents of the page itself.  Already there is mention of Kierkegard and Dooyeweerd, founders of Existentialism and Reformational Philosophy respectively - no mere blending of philosophy with theology!  Some work described as Christian philosophy may indeed fit this description, but the topic cannot be limited to this a priori. 
Thus I propose that the whole section "Reconciling Christianity with philosophy" is a topic for another article, or at least should be moved further down this article. Let's give a chance for radically Christian philosophies to be presented before defining them out of existence!
RMGunton (talk) 20:59, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problematic introduction 

message: I believe the following two paragraphs that I've cut from the section "Rennaisance and Reformation Christian Philosophers" may be valuable for other editors (indeed I partially agree with the second one) but not for readers.
"Two later Dutch Protestants are mistakenly put in the foregoing philosophical "era" by some historically ignorant contributor to this page.  Neither belong to this era.  One was a stock-market speculator on ships' voyages to the Dutch West Indies, and led in the disruption of the Reformed Church of the Netherlands over an inflated and misformulated Protestant Neo-Scholastic theory of "free will" that produced as its counterpoint the reactionary Canons of Dordt (Arminius became part of the sect called "the Remonstrants"). The other belonged ruffly and belatedly to the same school but remained nominally Reformed, while producing a great body of scholarship on International Law, his writings ironically becoming influential in the predestinarian Scholastic circles of Scotland. But these were neither Reformers nor philosophers."
"Even more serious a problem in this history of philosophy section, erroneously entitled "Renaissance and Reformation Christian Philosophy" is the lumping together of the Renaissance with the Reformation. This lumpen-historiography of philosophy has no place in the historical evaluation of Western philosophy's periods, continuities, discontinuities, re-emergences, twists, turns, and recurring problems traceable to a finite original number (Vollenhoven, Wolters), that arguably have simply exfloriated over the centuries. There were many Renaissance thinkers of importance, some definitely philosophers, who are not mentioned at all by previous contributors to this page.  Absolutely inexcusable. So, the erroneous heading itself obscures epochal differences (Vollenhoven), while at the same time Desiderius Erasmus Roteradamus is never branched off from the Renaissance thawt to his own lone stance of textual critique and satire of church, state, and ranks of society; but it was he, if any one person, who moderated between the two conflated zeitgeists, and synchronic but alternative types of Christian philosophy. Yet was himself no philosopher."
RMGunton (talk) 22:35, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Material from article that belongs in Discussion 

message: Who in the world put Kant as a Christian philosopher? That should be deleted.
Kant was a Christian philosopher tbf  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:204:309A:A877:0:0:2767:C8A1 (talk) 13:18, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kant?! 

message: I cannot see any specific reason for the POV-tag, it was marked by sir Anon IP 64.234.0.101 HERE, with the reason (adding the tage... where are the sources?) in May 2009. It must certainly have timed out now. The article is a little POVvy from an anti-philosophical sentiment, but not enough to warrant a fat POV-tag. Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 07:38, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality? 

message: The section Origins of Christian philosophy is wrong. Jesus did not philosophise, neither The Apostle Paul. The origins of "Christian" philosophy (scholastics and so) is mostly Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics. Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 07:43, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I propose rebuilding the entire article around a discourse similar to Philosophy and Christian Theology from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, written by real philosophers, not amateur editors trying their best to remember what they've been taught from here and there. Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 07:49, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Origins?

message: Why isn't Dostoevsky included on the Christian philosophers list? He was certainly Christian and his writings reflect that.
Andrei Bolkonsky (talk) 00:59, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about Dostoevsky? 

message: This should probably be titled 'List of Christian philosophers' as it doesn't really detail anything unique about Christian philosophy, just lists Christian philosophers. —Tom Morris (talk) 13:44, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename 

message: Substituted at 11:39, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: This article contains unclear sources and lead section does not summarize enough key points.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by GuJi and GuaGua (talk • contribs) 06:13, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Argument For the Rewrite 

message: This article Need to be completely rewritten, its contemporary form is very bad (Pseudo-Dionysius the areopagite (talk) 18:15, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewrite 

message: WP:TNT is the only way to save this article(Pseudo-Dionysius the areopagite (talk) 00:13, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: What do you think about the suggestion above to Rename this article, or transfer this info to List of Christian philosophers and write a new article here about Christian philosophy? Editor2020 (talk) 20:51, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia

message: Can I rewrite this article?(The Sr Guy (talk) 16:09, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Petition to rewrite 

message: What really are the philosophy of Christian religions 158.62.80.208 (talk) 13:51, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Worlds religion