Christianity & Western Thought: A History of Philosophers, Ideas & MovementsFrom Socrates and the Sophists to Kant, from Augustine to Aquinas and the Reformers, Colin Brown traces the turbulent, often tension-filled, always fascinating story of the thinkers, ideas and movements that have shaped our intellectual landscape. Is philosophy the "handmaiden of faith" or "the doctrine of demons"? Does it clarify the faith or undermine the very heart of Christian belief?Brown writes, "This book is about the changes in preconceptions, world views and paradigms that have affected the ways in which people have thought about religion in general and Christianity in particular in the Western world. . . . It is a historical sketch, written to help students--and anyone else who might be interested--to get a better grasp of the love-hate relationship between philosophy and faith that has gone on for close to two thousand years."Students, pastors and thoughtful Christians will benefit from this rich resource. The first in a proposed three-volume work, Brown's easy-to-read, hard-to-put-down introduction to Christianity and Western thought focuses on developments from the ancient world to the Age of Enlightenment. |
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Contents
Socrates and PreSocratic Philosophy | 19 |
Platos Vision of Reality | 29 |
Aristotle and the Physical World | 39 |
Epicureans Stoics Skeptics and Cynics | 51 |
From Greeks to Gospel | 63 |
Philosophy and the Church Fathers 79 228 | 79 |
Early Medieval Philosophy | 101 |
Aquinas and Later Medieval Philosophy | 119 |
Rational Religion and the Era of Deism | 197 |
The Rise of British Empiricism | 215 |
The Skeptical Empiricism of Hume | 235 |
Scottish Common Sense and Early American Philosophy | 259 |
Enlightenment and Skepticism in France | 285 |
Enlightenment and Skepticism in Germany | 301 |
Retrospect and Prospect | 331 |
Notes | 341 |
Philosophy and the Reformers | 143 |
Old Questions and New Crises | 159 |
The Age of Rationalism | 173 |
A Note on Books | 423 |
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Christianity & Western Thought: A History of Philosophers, Ideas & Movements Colin Brown,Steve Wilkens,Alan G. Padgett No preview available - 2009 |
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