Philosophy for understanding theology
By: Diogenes Allen and Eric O. Springsted.
Contributors: Springsted, Eric O.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Louisville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780664231804
Subjects: Philosophical theology.; Philosophy -- History.; Christianity -- Philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Plato: the world is the handiwork of a mind; title: Plato: this world is not our home; title: The platonic tradition: the stoics, plotinus, pseudo-dionysius; title: Aristotle: his categories and the mystery of god; title: Aristotle and the creation of scholastic theology; title: Aquinas' program and two critics: karl barth and process theology; title: The beginnings of the modem world: nominalism, humanism; title: The scientific revolution; title: Early modem philosophy: rationalism, empiricism, the enlightenment; title: Kant and the limits of knowledge; title: Hegel and the restoration of optimism; title: The search for meaning in contemporary philosophy:; title: Existentialism, phenomenology, and, hermeneutics; title: Postmodernism: truth, objectivity and certainty; title: Postmodernism: moral philosophy.