The love of wisdom
Subtitle: an introduction to philosophy for theologians
By: Andrew Davison
Publisher: SCM Press; Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780334043843
Subjects: Philosophy; History; European Philosophy; Philosophy and religion
Description: The Love of Wisdom offers a comprehensive introduction to Western intellectual history and philosophy for all studying Christian theology. The history of Christian theology is interwoven with the wider history of Western thought. A good understanding of what a particular theologian wrote requires some appreciation of the intellectual climate in which he or she was writing, including the philosophical currency of the time, and particularly the meaning of the philosophical terminology deployed. This book will put a basic appreciation of the intellectual history of Europe over the past 2,500 years within the grasp of theology students. This book will help students studying theology to be better theologians. It will also be of use in thinking about Christian apologetics, since quite a few of the topics under discussion in this field are basically philosophical. The same could be said for topics in science and religion . The book will help the student of philosophical theology or philosophy of religion see how philosophical thinking within theology is paralleled by interest in theological subjects within philosophy. Finally, it will help students acquire a sense of the historical trajectory of theology by placing it alongside the parallel history of philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : why study philosophy?; title: Before Plato; title: Plato; title: Aristotle; title: The Bible and philosophy; title: Philosophy and the earlier Fathers; title: Neoplatonism and the later Fathers; title: The early mediaeval period; title: Thomas Aquinas; title: Late scholasticism; title: The Renaissance and Reformation; title: The Enlightenment; title: Kant, Hegel and Romanticism; title: The nineteenth century and the 'masters of suspicion'; title: The early twentieth century; title: Literary theoory; title: Postmodernism; title: Theology and philosophy in the present day.