Primary Readings in Philosophy for Understanding Theology

Author: Diogenes Allen
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780852442296
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Knowledge of key philosophic terms or concepts is vital to the understanding of many issues in Christian theology. Diogenes Allen's book "Philosophy for Understanding Theology" explores such terms and concepts and their relationship to theology. This new anthology, edited by Allen and Eric Springsted, provides primary texts undergirding that earlier work. The writings included here deal with philosophical issues crucial to the understanding of theology and include responses to those questions from Plato to the present. Whether used alone or as a companion volume, this new reader is a valuable resource for theological studies.

Primary Readings in Philosophy for Understanding Theology

Author: Diogenes Allen
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664252083
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
Knowledge of key philosophic terms or concepts is vital to the understanding of many issues in Christian theology. This new anthology provides primary texts undergirding Diogenes Allen's earlier work, Philosophy for Understanding Theology, making for a valuable theological resource.

Philosophy for Understanding Theology

Author: Diogenes Allen
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 1611640482
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
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.

Readings in Historical Theology

Author: Robert F. Lay
Publisher: Kregel Academic
ISBN: 0825489474
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 365

Book Description
This broad-ranging collection of the primary sources that have shaped the theology of Christianity, spans Old Testament to modern writings. This historical theology textbook includes informative introductions and guiding questions from the author.

Charts of Philosophy and Philosophers

Author: Craig Vincent Mitchell
Publisher: HarperCollins Christian Publishing
ISBN: 0310270928
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
"Following the helpful visual format of the popilar Zondervan Charts series, Chars of Philosophy and Philosophers provides an in-depth survey of philosophy--its ideas, movements, history, and thinkers." -- Back Cover

Secular Bioethics in Theological Perspective

Author: E.E. Shelp
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400901194
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
Theologians and theologically educated participants in discussions of bioethics have been placed on the defensive during recent years. The dominance of religious perspectives and theological voices that marked the emergence and establishment of "bioethics" in the late 1960s and 1970s has eroded steadily as philosophers, lawyers, and others have relativized their role and influ ence, at best, or dismissed it entirely, at worst. The secularization of bioethics, which has occurred for a variety of reasons, has prompted some prominent writers to reflect on what has been lost. Daniel Callahan, for example writes, " . . . whatever the ultimate truth status of religious perspectives, they have provided a way of looking at the world and understanding one's own life that has a fecundity and uniqueness not matched by philosophy, law, or political theory. Those of us who have lost our reli gious faith may be glad that we have discovered what we take to be the reality of things, but we can still recognize that we have also lost something of great value as well: the faith, vision, insights, and experience of whole peoples and traditions who, no less than we unbelievers, struggled to make sense of things. That those goods are part of a garment we no longer want to wear does not make their loss anything other than still a loss; and it is not a neglible one" ([2], p. 2).

Philosophy for Understanding Theology

Author: Diogenes Allen
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780804206884
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 310

Book Description
"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

Fundamentals of Voice and Diction

Author: Lyle Vernon Mayer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diction
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description

The Love of Wisdom

Author: Andrew Davison
Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 0334052009
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
From the dawn of Western thought to the present day, The Love of Wisdom tells the story of philosophy as something intensely theological, both in its insights and its wrong turns. The book will be invaluable for any student of theology or intellectual history, and for anyone who wants to see the intellectual cogency of the Christian faith at its best. The intellectual tradition of the Church emerges clearly from this book as one of the glories of the Christian inheritance.

Physicians of Western Medicine

Author: Robert A. Hahn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9789027717900
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366

Book Description
After putting down this weighty (in all senses of the word) collection, the reader, be she or he physician or social scientist, will (or at least should) feel uncomfortable about her or his taken-for-granted commonsense (therefore cultural) understanding of medicine. The editors and their collaborators show the medical leviathan, warts and all, for what it is: changing, pluralistic, problematic, powerful, provocative. What medicine proclaims itself to be - unified, scientific, biological and not social, non-judgmental - it is shown not to resemble very much. Those matters about which medicine keeps fairly silent, it turns out, come closer to being central to its clinical practice - managing errors and learning to conduct a shared moral dis course about mistakes, handling issues of competence and competition among biomedical practitioners, practicing in value-laden contexts on problems for which social science is a more relevant knowledge base than biological science, integrating folk and scientific models of illness in clinical communication, among a large number of highly pertinent ethnographic insights that illuminate medicine in the chapters that follow.