Philosophy for Understanding Theology 2nd Edition by Diogenes Allen, ISBN-13: 978-0664231804

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Philosophy for Understanding Theology 2nd Edition by Diogenes Allen, ISBN-13: 978-0664231804

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• Publisher: ‎ Westminster John Knox Press; 2nd edition (October 17, 2007)
• Language: ‎ English
• 336 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0664231802
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0664231804

Philosophy for Understanding Theology has become the classic text for exploring the relationship between philosophy and Christian theology. This new edition adds chapters on postmodernism and questions of the self and the good to bring the book up to date with current scholarship. It introduces students to the influence that key philosophers and philosophical movements through the centuries have had on shaping Christian theology in both its understandings and forms of expression.

Table of Contents:

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: The Foundation of Christian Theology: The World

Was Created xv

1. Plato: The World Is the Handiwork of a Mind 1

2. Plato: This World Is Not Our Home 21

3. The Platonic Tradition: The Stoics, Plotinus, and Pseudo-

Dionysius 39

4. Aristotle: His Categories and the Mystery of God 65

5. Aristotle and the Creation of Scholastic Theology 77

6. Aquinas’s Program and Two Critics: Karl Barth and Process

Theology 103

7. The Beginnings of the Modern World: Nominalism, Humanism, the

Scientific Revolution 113

8. Early Modern Philosophy: Rationalism, Empiricism, the

Enlightenment 129

9. Kant and the Limits of Knowledge 155

10. Hegel and the Restoration of Optimism 169

11. The Search for Meaning in Contemporary Philosophy:

Existentialism, Phenomenology, and Hermeneutics 187

12. Postmodernism: Truth, Objectivity, and Certainty 209

13. Postmodernism: Moral Philosophy 231

Notes 253

Suggested Reading 257

Index 261

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