Idealism and Christian theology
By: edited by Joshua R. Farris, S. Mark Hamilton, and James S. Spiegel
Series: Idealism and Christianity -- volume 1
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781628924022
Subjects: Idealism; Philosophical theology; Philosophy and religion
Description: "In the recent history of philosophy few works have appeared which favorably portray Idealism as a plausible philosophical view of the world. Considerably less has been written about Idealism as a viable framework for doing theology. While the most recent and significant works on Idealism, composed by the late John Foster (Case for Idealism and A World for Us: The Case for Phenomenological Idealism), have put this theory back on the philosophical map, no such attempt has been made to re-introduce Idealism to contemporary Christian theology. Idealism and Christian Theology is such a work, retrieving ideas and arguments from its most significant modern exponents (especially George Berkeley and Jonathan Edwards) in order to assess its value for present and future theological construction. As a piece of constructive philosophical-theology itself, this volume considers the explanatory power an Idealist ontology has for contemporary Christian theology."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Idealism and Christian theology / Joshua R. Farris and S. Mark Hamilton; title: The theological orthodoxy of Berkeley's immaterialism / James S. Spiegel; title: Berkeley, Edwards, idealism and the knowledge of God /  William J. Wainwright; title: Idealistic panentheism : reflections on Jonathan Edwards's account of the God world relation / Jordan Wessling; title: Berkeley, realism, idealism and creation / Keith Yandell; title: Edwardsian idealism, imago Dei, and contemporary theology / Joshua R. Farris; title: On the corruption of the body : a theological argument for metaphysical idealism / S. Mark Hamilton; title: Idealism and the Resurrection / Mark Cortez; title: Jonathan Edwards, idealism, and Christology / Oiver D. Crisp; title: Jonathan Edwards's dynamic idealism and cosmic Christology / Seng-Kong Tan; title: Idealism and participating in the body of Christ / James Arcadi; title: Idealistic ethics and Berkeley's good God / Timo Airaksinen.