Philosophy for Understanding TheologyWestminster John Knox Press, 1985 M01 1 - 287 pages "This book goes a long way toward showing...that philosophical knowledge enables one to appreciate more deeply the meaning of virtually every major doctrinal formulation and every major theologian".---Eternity |
Contents
The Foundation of Christian Theology | 1 |
The World Is the Handiwork of a Mind | 15 |
This World Is Not Our Home | 39 |
The Stoics Plotinus Pseudo | 61 |
His Categories and the Mystery of God | 93 |
Aristotle and the Creation of Scholastic Theology | 107 |
Karl Barth | 137 |
Nominalism | 151 |
Rationalism Empiricism | 171 |
Kant and the Limits of Knowledge | 203 |
Hegel and the Restoration of Optimism | 221 |
Suggested Reading | 277 |
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