Philosophy for Understanding Theology, Second Edition
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.
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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.About the Author:Diogenes Allen is Smart Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary
Preface ixAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction: The Foundation of Christian Theology: The World Was Created xvPlato: The World Is the Handiwork of a Mind 1Plato: This World Is Not Our Home 21The Platonic Tradition: The Stoics, Plotinus, and Pseudo-Dionysius 39Aristotle: His Categories and the Mystery of God 65Aristotle and the Creation of Scholastic Theology 77Aquinas's Program and Two Critics: Karl Barth and Process Theology 103The Beginnings of the Modern World: Nominalism, Humanism, the Scientific Revolution 113Early Modern Philosophy: Rationalism, Empiricism, the Enlightenment 129Kant and the Limits of Knowledge 155Hegel and the Restoration of Optimism 169The Search for Meaning in Contemporary Philosophy: Existentialism, Phenomenology, and Hermeneutics 187Postmodernism: Truth, Objectivity, and Certainty 209Postmodernism: Moral Philosophy 231Notes 253Suggested Reading 257Index 261
