Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Philosophy and the Christian faith: a historical sketch from the Middle Ages to the present day.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: A Tyndale paperbackPublication details: London, InterVarsity Press, 1968.Description: 319 p. 20 cmISBN:
  • 0877847126
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 201
LOC classification:
  • BR100 .B65 1968
Contents:
Contents:
1. Medieval philosophy. The roots of medieval thought : Augustine and the early church ; Greek philosophy -- Metaphysics -- Anselm and the ontological argument -- Thomas Aquinas : The five ways ; The doctrine of analogy -- The significance of medieval philosophy : Two approaches to truth in religion ; The historical significance of Aquinas -- 2. From the Reformation to the Age of Enlightenment. The cradle of modern thought -- The reformers and their successors : Luther ; The Reformation outside Germany ; Philosophy and the reformers -- Rationalism : Descartes ; Spinoza ; Leibniz ; Pascal --Empiricism : Locke ; Berkeley ; Hume -- The English Diests and their opponents : The revival of natural theology ; Sceptical Deism ; Replies to Deism -- Enlightenment and scepticism on the continent : Rousseau ; Voltaire ; Lessing ; Kant -- 3. The nineteenth-century ferment. Schleiermacher : Life and works ; Schleiermacher's approach ; Comment -- Hegel and idealism : Idealism ; Hegel ; The progress of idealism -- Kierkegaard : Life and works ; Truth and Christianity -- Atheism and agnosticism : Feuerbach ; Marx and dialectical materialism ; Nietzsche ; Comte and positivism ; Mill and utilitarianism ; Peirce, James and pragmatism ; Darwin and evolution -- Trends in theology : Liberal theology ; Catholic reactions ; Conservative scholarship. 4. Philosophy and faith in the twentieth century. Logical positivism and linguistic analysis : Logical positivism ; Reaction ; Religious language -- Existentialism : Background and character ; Bultmann ; Tillich -- The new radicalism : The revival of radicalism ; Bonhoeffer ; Honest to God ; The death of God school -- The broader spectrum : Secular British philosophy : Wittgenstein, Moore and Russell ; Humanism ; Three independent thinkers : Otto, Bube and Teilhard de Chardin ; Neo-Thomism -- Philosophy and reformed theology : Cornelius Van Til ; Karl Barth ; Francis Schaeffer -- 5. Postscript : The Christian and philosophy. Lessons from the past : The incompleteness of philosophical ; The dangers of allying the Christian faith too closely with any single philosophical system ; Natural theology ; Revelation and history -- The value and task of the philosophy of the Christian religion : The value of philosophy ; The task of the philosophy of religio
Item type: Books
Holdings
Current library Collection Call number Vol info Status Date due Barcode
Judith Thomas Library General Stacks BKS BR 100 .B65 1968 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) AUA011461 Available AUA011461

Bibliography: p. [291]-309.

Contents:

1. Medieval philosophy. The roots of medieval thought : Augustine and the early church ; Greek philosophy --
Metaphysics --
Anselm and the ontological argument --
Thomas Aquinas : The five ways ; The doctrine of analogy --
The significance of medieval philosophy : Two approaches to truth in religion ; The historical significance of Aquinas --
2. From the Reformation to the Age of Enlightenment. The cradle of modern thought --
The reformers and their successors : Luther ; The Reformation outside Germany ; Philosophy and the reformers --
Rationalism : Descartes ; Spinoza ; Leibniz ; Pascal --Empiricism : Locke ; Berkeley ; Hume --
The English Diests and their opponents : The revival of natural theology ; Sceptical Deism ; Replies to Deism --
Enlightenment and scepticism on the continent : Rousseau ; Voltaire ; Lessing ; Kant --
3. The nineteenth-century ferment. Schleiermacher : Life and works ; Schleiermacher's approach ; Comment --
Hegel and idealism : Idealism ; Hegel ; The progress of idealism --
Kierkegaard : Life and works ; Truth and Christianity --
Atheism and agnosticism : Feuerbach ; Marx and dialectical materialism ; Nietzsche ; Comte and positivism ; Mill and utilitarianism ; Peirce, James and pragmatism ; Darwin and evolution --
Trends in theology : Liberal theology ; Catholic reactions ; Conservative scholarship. 4. Philosophy and faith in the twentieth century. Logical positivism and linguistic analysis : Logical positivism ; Reaction ; Religious language --
Existentialism : Background and character ; Bultmann ; Tillich --
The new radicalism : The revival of radicalism ; Bonhoeffer ; Honest to God ; The death of God school --
The broader spectrum : Secular British philosophy : Wittgenstein, Moore and Russell ; Humanism ; Three independent thinkers : Otto, Bube and Teilhard de Chardin ; Neo-Thomism --
Philosophy and reformed theology : Cornelius Van Til ; Karl Barth ; Francis Schaeffer --
5. Postscript : The Christian and philosophy. Lessons from the past : The incompleteness of philosophical ; The dangers of allying the Christian faith too closely with any single philosophical system ; Natural theology ; Revelation and history --
The value and task of the philosophy of the Christian religion : The value of philosophy ; The task of the philosophy of religio