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Title Philosophy & the Christian faith : a historical sketch from the Middle Ages to the present day / Colin Brown.
Publication Info. Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c1968.

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 Purdy-Kresge Library  BR 100 .B65 1968    CHECKED IN
Description 320 p. ; 22 cm.
Note "A note on books": p. [291]-311.
Contents 1. Medieval philosophy. The roots of medieval thought : Augustine and the early church ; Greek philosophy -- Metaphysics -- Anselm and the ontological argument -- Thomas Aquinas : The five ways ; The doctrine of analogy -- The significance of medieval philosophy : Two approaches to truth in religion ; The historical significance of Aquinas -- 2. From the Reformation to the Age of Enlightenment. The cradle of modern thought -- The reformers and their successors : Luther ; The Reformation outside Germany ; Philosophy and the reformers -- Rationalism : Descartes ; Spinoza ; Leibniz ; Pascal --Empiricism : Locke ; Berkeley ; Hume -- The English Diests and their opponents : The revival of natural theology ; Sceptical Deism ; Replies to Deism -- Enlightenment and scepticism on the continent : Rousseau ; Voltaire ; Lessing ; Kant -- 3. The nineteenth-century ferment. Schleiermacher : Life and works ; Schleiermacher's approach ; Comment -- Hegel and idealism : Idealism ; Hegel ; The progress of idealism -- Kierkegaard : Life and works ; Truth and Christianity -- Atheism and agnosticism : Feuerbach ; Marx and dialectical materialism ; Nietzsche ; Comte and positivism ; Mill and utilitarianism ; Peirce, James and pragmatism ; Darwin and evolution -- Trends in theology : Liberal theology ; Catholic reactions ; Conservative scholarship --
4. Philosophy and faith in the twentieth century. Logical positivism and linguistic analysis : Logical positivism ; Reaction ; Religious language -- Existentialism : Background and character ; Bultmann ; Tillich -- The new radicalism : The revival of radicalism ; Bonhoeffer ; Honest to God ; The death of God school -- The broader spectrum : Secular British philosophy : Wittgenstein, Moore and Russell ; Humanism ; Three independent thinkers : Otto, Bube and Teilhard de Chardin ; Neo-Thomism -- Philosophy and reformed theology : Cornelius Van Til ; Karl Barth ; Francis Schaeffer -- 5. Postscript : The Christian and philosophy. Lessons from the past : The incompleteness of philosophical ; The dangers of allying the Christian faith too closely with any single philosophical system ; Natural theology ; Revelation and history -- The value and task of the philosophy of the Christian religion : The value of philosophy ; The task of the philosophy of religion.
Subject Philosophy and religion.
Christianity -- Philosophy.
Added Title Philosophy and the Christian faith.
ISBN 0877847126
9780877847120
OCLC # 24765824
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