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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of ContentsPreface: 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
