The relation between reason and revelation according to Averroes and Thomas Aquinas
Subtitle: a comparative study
By: Ortwin Gebauer ; translation from German language by Simon Chaplin
Publisher: Eos
Published: 2019
Place of publication: St. Ottilien
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9783830679677
Subjects: Reason; Revelation; Christianity; History of doctrines; Philosophy and religion
Work titles: Verhältnis von Vernunft und Offenbarung bei Averroes und Thomas von Aquin
Description: "The harmonization of reason and faith was for Averroes the main scientific challenge whereby Aristotle served him as a key philosophical point of reference. Whilst Averroes followed Aristotle to a large extent, Thomas Aquinas attempts to make use of Aristotle's work in a different manner for his own philosophical-theological model whilst still referring to Averroes. For the two philosophers reason and revelation attain a singular synthesis which is, however, not completely tension free. In this study Averroes is praised as a congenial thinker of scholarly topics. Thomas' handling of Islamic-Arabic philosophy proves an example worthy of attention of intercultural philosophical discourse which can serve contemporary Western-world philosophy projects as a valuable point of reference."--
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Comenius-University Bratislava, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-149).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The correlation between reason and revelation for Averroes --; title: The correlation between reason and revelation for Thomas Aquinas --; title: Correlation between reason and revelation for Averroes and Thomas Aquinas --; title: Conclusions ---- Summary-- Literature.