Philosophical Exigencies Of Christian Religion

Author : Maurice Blondel
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 335 pages
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Release : 2021-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268200473

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Philosophical Exigencies of Christian Religion by Maurice Blondel Pdf

Philosophical Exigencies of Christian Religion is a translation of two of Maurice Blondel’s essays. Blondel’s thinking played a significant role in the deliberations and arguments of the Second Vatican Council. Although a towering figure in the history of twentieth-century Catholic thought, the later systematic works of Maurice Blondel have been largely inaccessible in the English-speaking world. Oliva Blanchette, who previously translated Blondel’s early groundbreaking work Action (1893), now offers the first English translation of the final work Blondel himself signed off on the day before he died, Philosophical Exigencies of Christian Religion. This work of transition from mere philosophy to a consideration of Christian religion consists of two main essays, The Christian Sense and the shorter On Assimilation, followed by a Reconsideration and Global View and an Appendix: Clarifications and Admonitions written in answer to an inquiry by a young scholar about method. The first essay explores the Christian sense of the spiritual life and how Christian religion, even as supernatural, can come under the purview of critical philosophy. The second essay examines the move from analogy to assimilation in speaking of the Christian life. Blondel tackles the question: How does the human spirit combine with the divine spirit in such a way that neither is lost in the process? Philosophical Exigencies of Christian Religion is critical for understanding Blondel’s thought. This high-quality translation and Blanchette’s concise preface will appeal not only to philosophers and theologians but also to spiritual writers and directors of spiritual retreats in the Ignatian and Jesuit traditions.

Author : Vicesimus Knox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1795
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : BL:A0023886150

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Christian philosophy: or, An attempt to display the evidence and excellence of revealed religion by Vicesimus Knox Pdf

Author : Vicesimus Knox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : NLI:3161412-10

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Christian Philosophy, Or, An Attempt to Display, by Internal Testimony, the Evidence and Excellence of Revealed Religion by Vicesimus Knox Pdf

Author : Vincent A. McCarthy
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0865542104

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Quest for a Philosophical Jesus by Vincent A. McCarthy Pdf

Author : A. M. Fairbairn
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781725238565

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The Philosophy of the Christian Religion by A. M. Fairbairn Pdf

"This book may be described as an attempt to do two things; first, to explain religion through nature and man; and, secondly, to construe Christianity through religion. The author conceives religion to be a joint product of the mind within man and the nature around him, the mind being the source of the ideas which constitute its soul, the nature around determining the usages and customs which build up its body. He does not think, therefore, that any one of its special forms can be explained without the local nature which begot and shaped it, or that its general being can be resolved and construed without the reason or thought which is common to the race. He sees in religion the greatest of all man's unconscious creations, and the most potent of the means which the past, while it was still a living present, formed for the making of the man and the times that were yet to be." -- From the Preface

Author : Oliva Blanchette
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 837 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781467433754

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Maurice Blondel by Oliva Blanchette Pdf

French philosopher Maurice Blondel had a tremendous impact on both philosophy and religion over the first half of the twentieth century. He was at once a postmodern critical philosopher and a devout traditional Catholic, trying not only to reconcile these two seemingly disparate factors in his own mind, but also to prove to others that the two must go together. / In the first critical examination of the philosopher’s life Oliva Blanchette tells the story of Blondel’s stormy life confronting an Academy dismissive of religion and a Religion uncomfortable with rational philosophy. This book not only follows his biographical history, but also presents his systematic philosophy, from the beginning of his journey to the culmination found in Philosophical Exigencies of Christianity, the book for which he signed the publishing contract the day before he died. / Maurice Blondel is part of the Ressourcement: Retrieval and Renewal in Catholic Thought series, edited by David L. Schindler.

Author : Andrew Martin Fairbairn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Christianity
ISBN : PRNC:32101055960049

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The Philosophy of the Christian Religion by Andrew Martin Fairbairn Pdf

Author : Basil Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135978372

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Faith and Logic by Basil Mitchell Pdf

When this book was originally published in 1957 there had been lively debates on the air and in the press about the bearing of modern philosophy upon Christianity, but there had been relatively little sustained discussion of the subject. This book of essays was the product of a small group of Oxford philosophers and theologians, who had met and talked informally for some years before writing it. It is an attempt to discuss with care and candour some of the problems raised for Christian belief by contemporary analytical philosophy. In asking the questions raised, this book makes articulate the perplexities of many intelligent people, both believers and unbelievers. The contributors concentrate on the way such concepts as God, Revelation, the Soul, Grace are actually used rather than asserting or denying some very general theory of meaning.

Author : C. Stephen Evans
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0877843430

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Philosophy of Religion by C. Stephen Evans Pdf

C. Stephen Evans examines the central themes of philosophy of religion, including the arguments for God's existence, the meaning of revelation and miracles, and the problem of religious language.

Author : Andrew Martin Fairbairn
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230250557

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The Philosophy of the Christian Religion by Andrew Martin Fairbairn Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION A. Principles: The Idea And Origin Of Religion PHILOSOPHY, understood as reflexion on our ultimate ideas, is almost as old as religion, and began to be the moment man consciously enquired concerning beliefs that had unconsciously arisen, What do they mean? He had to live much longer, forget much and learn more, before he could ask, What do I mean by my beliefs? A yet vaster revolution of time and mind had to happen before he framed the questions: What do my beliefs mean to me? and have their many changes of form and setting since the days of my youth left them still the old beliefs and still mine? But all these might be discussed as problems in religious philosophy without ever raising the distinctive questions in the philosophy of religion. The two are distinguished thus: the former is concerned with religious ideas, but the latter with concrete religion; the one deals with beliefs, their basis, psychological genesis, and intellectual forms, but the other enquires why religion as an objective fact and living organism has appeared, and how it has behaved; what are its sources and elements, its ideas and customs; what its dependency on man and on environment; what functions it has fulfilled, and with what results, and for what reasons in personal, tribal, national, and collective history. It recognises religion as a universal fact which has to be construed through what is universal in human nature; and it seeks to discover the forces and the factors that modify the universal fact into the infinite variety of forms it assumes in time and place, and to determine the PHILOSOPHY AND THE RELIGIONS 187 worth of these modifications. Its scope is therefore immense, and its problem intricate, but one thing it...

Author : Edward J. Carnell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556356216

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A Philosophy of the Christian Religion by Edward J. Carnell Pdf

Introducing the Edward Carnell Library (Nine Titles Listed Inside) A Philosophy of the Christian Religion is not a defense of the Christian faith in the conventional sense. The gamut of contending values and the systems of thought preoccupying the contemporary mind are analyzed here with admirable comprehension and lucidity. These competing philosophies are severally evaluated by the whole perspective of the Christian system and demonstrated as partial, here-and-now values, incapable of satisfying the demands of the whole man. Christianity is a coherent religion. It never asks the heart to trust values which the reason is obliged to discard as contradictory. No value commitment is completely satisfying until the complete man is satisfied. --from the preface

Author : Cathal Doherty
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004342446

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Maurice Blondel on the Supernatural in Human Action by Cathal Doherty Pdf

In Maurice Blondel on the Supernatural in Human Action: Sacrament and Superstition, Cathal Doherty SJ reverses the Enlightenment accusation of superstition against sacraments and argues that sacramental theology too falls into superstition when it ignores divine agency as real.

Author : Basil N. Tatakis,Vasileios N. Tatakēs,George Dion Dragas
Publisher : Orthodox Research Inst
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1933275170

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Christian Philosophy in the Patristic and Byzantine Tradition by Basil N. Tatakis,Vasileios N. Tatakēs,George Dion Dragas Pdf

Tatakis is a real master of thought, a philosopher who theologizes, or, putting it otherwise, a philosopher who takes theology seriously and brings out its insights dressed in philosophical form. The result is indeed a most fruitful synthesis of philosophy and religion; a philosophy of religion, or more accurately, a religious philosophy. It is a Christian philosophy, which is possible, because this is indeed the legacy of Byzantium, that priceless alabaster of Eastern Orthodox Christianity of which Tatakis has been a key exponent and interpreter. It is precisely this Greek Orthodox Christian synthesis that this volume explains in a straightforward, comprehensive and profound way. This work is a real companion to Tatakis' earlier work on Byzantine Philosophy, laying the emphasis on the content of Byzantine thought and its characteristic religious bent, Greek Orthodox Christianity, as distinct from its history and literature, which are more typical of the earlier work. There are certain overlaps between the two books, but this one brings out more clearly the Greek Orthodox theological dimension in Tatakis' thought which deserves to be explored much more than it has. It reveals the great soul of this extraordinary man who is both a philosopher and a man of faith and theology; and who, in spite of the exigencies of life (as he describes them very movingly in his last and most interesting book - the book of his life - published posthumously in 1993), has left us the strength and the aroma of the Greek Orthodox spirit and nobility.

Author : Philip L. Quinn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199297030

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Essays in the Philosophy of Religion by Philip L. Quinn Pdf

This volume presents a selection of essays by the late Philip Quinn, one of the world's leading philosophers of religion. Quinn left behind an influential body of work on a wide variety of topics. He was the author of Divine Commands and Moral Requirements (1978) and of more than two hundred papers in philosophy. Fourteen of his best and most influential contributions to the philosophy of religion are gathered here. The papers have been organized around the followingtopics: religious epistemology, religious ethics, religion and tragic dilemmas, religion and political liberalism, topics in Christian philosophy, and religious diversity.

Author : Steve Wilkens
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830880232

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Faith and Reason by Steve Wilkens Pdf

Life confronts us with an endless stream of questions. Some are trivial. But some draw us into the deepest dimensions of human inquiry, a place where our decisions have profound implications for life and faith. Is there a God, and if so, how can I know anything about who or what God is? Is the quest for truth an elusive dream? How should I live and what should I value? What happens at the end of my biological existence? These questions lead people of every creed and belief to consider important existential concepts. But many people wrestle with the relationship between faith and reason as they dig into the roots of this theological and philosophical pursuit. Does a shared interest in a common set of questions indicate that philosophy and theology are close kin and allies, or are they competitors vying for our souls, each requiring a loyalty that excludes the other? In this Spectrum Multiview volume Steve Wilkens edits a debate between three different understandings of the relationship between faith and reason, between theology and philosophy. The first viewpoint, Faith and Philosophy in Tension, proposes faith and reason as hostile, exclusive opposites, each dangerous to the integrity of the other. The second, Faith Seeking Understanding, suggests that faithful Christians are called to make full use of their rational faculties to aid in the understanding and interpretation of what they believe by faith. In the third stance, Thomistic Synthesis, natural reason acts as a handmaiden to theology by actively pointing people toward salvation and deeper knowledge of spiritual truths. Bringing together multiple views on the relationship between faith, philosophy and reason, this introduction to a timeless quandary will help you navigate, with rigor and joy, one of the most significant discussions of the Christian community. Spectrum Multiview Books offer a range of viewpoints on contested topics within Christianity, giving contributors the opportunity to present their position and also respond to others in this dynamic publishing format.