Philosophy of religion

During the seventies, there was a revival of systematic philosophy in general and of ontology in particular.

The present volume owes its existence to a proposal of Dr Esa Saarinen.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Henry Longueville Mansel published his Bampton Lectures in 1858, twenty- seven years after Hegel's death and twelve years before the publication of Ritschl's Rechtfertigung und Versoehnung.

Ever since philosophy became conscious of itself, there has been a problem of the relations between the real world which philosophy sought to understand and explain, and the thought by which it sought to explain it.

The essays which follow, as theological reflections of a Christian the ontological reality of philosopher, are essays of inquiry concerning and underlying truths revealed by God.

No man can live without ideas, for every human action, internal or external, is of necessity enacted by virtue of certain ideas.

The "e;transcendental imagination"e; is a philosophical conception used in this essay to illuminate the ontological significance of the continuing proclamation of the Word of God.

The properly metaphysical dimension of Augustine's thought has received little special attention among scholars - even "e;Scholastics.

Never before in the history of mankind has there been a period when hitherto accepted moral principles have been more severely tested.

The idea of the present study is basically a simple one.

THE PROBLEM OF THE INTERPRETATION OF HAMANN Johann Georg Hamann is an intriguing but poorly known figure in the contemporary intellectual world.

THE WOFFORD SYMPOSIUM: ITs PURPOSE, GENESIS, AND THEME The purpose of The Wofford Symposium was to stimulate original scholarship on the theme of the meeting, to provide a forum in philosophy of high quality in the area which Wofford College principally serves, and to make available for publication this collection of papers, which it was felt would meet a peculiar need in the contemporary literature of philosophy.

It is one of the ironies of our times that, as the practise of religion wanes, a theoretical interest in it on the part of many anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists and philosophers waxes.

Although this book is a study of the work of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, it would be mistaken to refer to it as a comparison.

This book considers philosophy to be more than mere reflection.

Modern developments in philosophy have provided us with tools, logical and methodological, that were not available to Medieval thinkers - a development that has its dangers as well as opportunities.

In the fall of 1994, Hendrik-Jan van Leusen, an acquisitions editor from Kluwer Academic Publishers, visited me in my home to discuss a proposal for a handbook in the philosophy of religion.

The purpose of this collection of papers is to introduce English- speaking philosophers and theologians to something of the variety of the contemporary debate about the religious relevance of Hegel's thought.

The papers in this volume are in honor of Bowman L.

Natural theology is the project of articulating, defending and CntlClzmg arguments for the existence and nature of God without the aid of special revelation.

This book investigates one aspect of the story of how our religiously-oriented culture became a secular one.

The appearance of religious toleration combined with the intensification of the search for theological truth led to a unique phenomenon in early modern Europe: Jewish Christians and Christian Jews.

The contemporary revival of interest in the Sacred as a category of philosophico-religious reflection here finds a radical reversal of the traditional direction, taking the Sacred as the starting point of the itinerary toward the Divine.

In three volumes, a distinguished group of scholars from a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the humanities and the arts contribute essays in honor of Robert S.

The first issue of the International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion appeared in the Spring, 1970.

Critical Choices and Critical Care brings together the traditional reflections on ordinary and extraordinary means with Catholic social thought.

The thesis of this essay may be stated quite briefly: Vatican II is a demonstration- model of the phenomenological method employed on an international scale.

In the unequaled and majestic contemporary technological phase of our cultural development, where democratic liberties and the means of well- being are accessible to everyone; man is unsatisfied, insecure, rebellious, confused and lost.

In the last decade, too many American theologians have been preoc- cupied with charting and interpreting in a superficial manner the move- ments of the newest stars in the Continental theological firmament.

This essay is conceived as a critical exposition of the central issues that figure in the ongoing conversation between Logical Positivists and neo- Positivists on the one hand and Christian apologists on the other.

One of the pleasures and privileges of scholarship is the opportunity to express one's gratitude to friends and colleagues upon the occasion of a publication.

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The Apologetic Value of Human Holiness begins by providing the first comprehensive account of the model of human holiness developed by the leading theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar.

This collection of original articles, written by leading contemporary European and American philosophers of religion, is presented in celebration of the publication of the fiftieth volume of the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.

Contemporary developments in philosophy have declared truth as such troublesome, and not merely gaining access to it.

Godel's modal ontological argument is the centrepiece of an extensive examination of intensional logic.

Any number of misconceptions about millenarians and messianism in the early modern period will be laid to rest by a reading of this volume.

'The problem of Transcendence is the problem of our time.