Overview

The ancient religious thinker Tertullian asked: “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?”, implying that faith and philosophy have nothing to say to each other. The history of this dialogue has shaped the intellectual dialogue from the very beginning right up to the present. In this book, Jerry H. Gill has traced the dynamics of this dialogue and in the conclusion he has offered his own answer to the questions it raises.

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Author:   Jerry Gill
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   371
Weight:   0.353kg
ISBN:  

9789004465459

ISBN 10:   9004465456
Pages:   124
Publication Date:   14 October 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface: The Why and Wherefore A Very Happy Acknowledgement  Introduction: Faith Seeking Understanding 1 Greek Thought  1 Pre-Socratics and Socrates  2 Plato: Theistic Idealism  3 Aristotle: Rational Theology  4 Plotinus: Neo-Platonism 2 Medieval Thought  1 Irenaeus: God and Evil  2 Augustine: Christian Platonism  3 Aquinas: Christian Aristotelianism  4 Eckhart: Christian Mysticism 3 Modern Thought  1 Descartes: Rationalist Faith  2 Locke: Empiricist Faith  3 Hume: Religious Skepticism  4 Kant: Reason Seeking Faith 4 Recent Thought  1 Kierkegaard: Faith without Reason?  2 Feuerbach: Naturalistic Humanism  3 A. N. Whitehead: Process Thought  4 Tillich: Philosophical Theology  Conclusion: Reasons of the Heart Bibliography Index

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Jerry H. Gill, Ph.D. (1966), Duke University. has taught Philosophy and Religious Studies at various colleges around the country for 60 years and has numerous publications in these two fields to his name, including Philosophy Today Series, 1, 2, 3 (Macmillan, 1968 - 1970), Faith in Dialogue (Word, 1985), Mediated Transcendence (Mercer University Press, 1989), The Enduring Questions (Wadsworth, 1999), and In Search of Transcendence (Brill, 2017).

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