Revelation and Reason
Title | Revelation and Reason PDF eBook |
Author | K. Scott Oliphint |
Publisher | P & R Publishing |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780875525969 |
The relationship between revelation and reason in apologetics has long been debated. If our defense of the faith is a rational enterprise, and biblical veracity itself is under attack, where, when, and how does revelation come into play? That question and related concerns are central to these essays in the Reformed apologetic tradition of Cornelius Van Til. The editors explain: Part of the purpose of this collection of essays is to set in the foreground the necessity of exegetical and theological foundations for any Reformed, Christian apologetic. A Reformed apologetic is only Reformed to the extent that its tenets, principles, methodology, and so forth are formed and re-formed by Scripture.
Revelation and Reason in Christian Theology
Title | Revelation and Reason in Christian Theology PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher C. Green |
Publisher | Lexham Press |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2018-07-11 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1683590996 |
Do revelation and reason contradict? Throughout the church's history Christians have been tempted to make revelation and reason mutually exclusive. But both are essential to a true understanding of the faith. The inaugural Theology Connect conference—held in Sydney in July 2016—was dedicated to surveying the intersection of revelation and reason. In Revelation and Reason in Christian Theology Christopher C. Green and David I. Starling draw together the fruit of this conference to provoke sustained, deep reflection on this relationship. The essays—filtered through epistemological, biblical, historical, and dogmatic lenses—critically and constructively contribute to this important and developing aspect of theology. Each essayist approaches revelation and reason according to the psalmist's words: "In your light we see light" (Ps 36:9). The light of faith does not obscure truth; rather, it enables us to see truth.
Reason, Revelation, and Devotion
Title | Reason, Revelation, and Devotion PDF eBook |
Author | William J. Wainwright |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1107062403 |
The book presents a novel defense of the beneficial epistemic effect that extra logical features can have on the assessment of religious arguments.
Reason Fulfilled by Revelation
Title | Reason Fulfilled by Revelation PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory B. Sadler |
Publisher | CUA Press |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2011-03-16 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0813217210 |
This selection of previously untranslated documents from the French debates about Christian philosophy provides a long-needed complement to available English-language literature on the subject.
Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem
Title | Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem PDF eBook |
Author | Heinrich Meier |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2006-12-25 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780521699457 |
This book, by one of the most prominent interpreters of Leo Strauss's thought, was the first to address the problem that Leo Strauss himself said was the theme of his studies: the theologico-political problem or the confrontation with the theological and the political alternative to philosophy as a way of life. In his theologico-political treatise, which comprises four parts and an appendix, Heinrich Meier clarifies the distinction between political theology and political philosophy and reappraises the unifying center of Strauss's philosophical enterprise. The book is the culmination of Meier's work on the theologico-political problem. It will interest anyone who seeks to understand both the problem caused by revelation for philosophy and the challenge posed by political-religious radicalism. The appendix makes available for the first time two lectures by Strauss that are immediately relevant to the subject of this book and that will open the way for future research and debate on the legacy of Strauss.
Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch
Title | Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandre M. Roberts |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2020-06-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520343492 |
What happened to ancient Greek thought after Antiquity? What impact did Abrahamic religions have on medieval Byzantine and Islamic scholars who adapted and reinvigorated this ancient philosophical heritage? Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch tackles these questions by examining the work of the eleventh-century Christian theologian Abdallah ibn al-Fadl, who undertook an ambitious program of translating Greek texts, ancient and contemporary, into Arabic. Poised between the Byzantine Empire that controlled his home city of Antioch and the Arabic-speaking cultural universe of Syria-Palestine, Egypt, Aleppo, and Iraq, Ibn al-Fadl engaged intensely with both Greek and Arabic philosophy, science, and literary culture. Challenging the common narrative that treats Christian and Muslim scholars in almost total isolation from each other in the Middle Ages, Alexandre M. Roberts reveals a shared culture of robust intellectual curiosity in the service of tradition that has had a lasting role in Eurasian intellectual history.
Obstacles to Divine Revelation
Title | Obstacles to Divine Revelation PDF eBook |
Author | Rolfe King |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 419 |
Release | 2011-11-03 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1441113649 |
A fascinating, philosophical approach to the concept of divine revelation, exploring the implications this theory may have for generating a new concept of religious truth.