Theology And Philosophy (Signposts in Theology) - Hardcover

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9780631153542: Theology And Philosophy (Signposts in Theology)

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ISBN 10: 0631153543 ISBN 13: 9780631153542

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 1988

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Theology is not philosophy, and philosophy is not a substitute for religious convictions. But whereas religion can exist without philosophy, and philosophy without religion, theology cannot exist without recourse to each of the other two. Philosophy is critically concerned with argument and the attempt to solve conceptual problems - and conceptual problems face theology in all areas of its reflective labour. This book is about this relationship between theology and philosophy in the Christian tradition. It explores some of the most important ways in which theologians and philosophers past and present have conceived of the place and role of philosophy within Christian thought: and it discusses some of the problems which arise from this exchange. It examines in a historical and systematic way problems of perspective in Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, and Enlightenment, Schleiermacher and Barth, together with the issue of reflection in Descartes, Ward, Kant and Hegel and Louergan. Professor Dalferth argues that theology has to integrate external perspectives in order to develop a genuine philosophy of religion.

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Ingolf U. Dalferth (DrTheol, University of TUbingen) is Danforth Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. He is also professor emeritus in the faculty of theology at the University of Zurich, where he served as director of the Institute of Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Religion for many years. He has held academic positions at the universities of Durham, TUbingen, Frankfurt, Fribourg, and Copenhagen. Dalferth is the author or editor of over forty books, including "Crucified and Resurrected", "Die Wirklichkeit des MOglichen" "Hermeneutische Religionsphilosophie", and "Becoming Present: An Inquiry into the Christian Sense of the Presence of God".

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