The Critique Of Theological Reason

Author : James P. Mackey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1139429930

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The Critique of Theological Reason by James P. Mackey Pdf

Far from merely reinvigorating relativism, postmodernism has detected and expressed in our time a powerful nihilating process of which truth and reality itself are the final casualties; and with these morality and religion. Beginning from the theological reaches of philosophy, this book argues that gods played a crucial part in modern philosophy, even when it was most critical of them; that the dominant nihilism of Derrida is really an excessive and misleading outcome of a contemporary philosophy which could otherwise resonate with all that is best in our evolutionary image of the universe; that moralists who turn to art in order to overcome the fact–value version of this deadly dualism do not thereby rule out religion; and that a Christian theology which recognises the evolutionary and historical conditions of faith and revelation is once again producing a theology that builds upon the best of contemporary philosophy and science.

Author : James Patrick Mackey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophical theology
ISBN : 051117442X

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The Critique of Theological Reason by James Patrick Mackey Pdf

Author : Fernando Luis Canale
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1545060207

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Criticism of Theological Reason by Fernando Luis Canale Pdf

In the ongoing quest for Christian unity, theological controversies and confessional divisions continue to bar the way. In this work, Fernando Canale attempts to overcome Christianity's theological disagreements by placing theological reason-which unwittingly drives these contentions-under critical investigation. In A Criticism of Theological Reason Canale proposes that theology should undertake this investigation independently from previous philosophical interpretations of reason. Thus, a Criticism of Theological Reason requires a careful examination of (1) the phenomenological structure of reason, (2) its presuppositional conditions, and (3) the interpretation of Being as either time or timelessness, within the philosophical, theological, and biblical contexts. The philosophical context clarifies the function of reason in the construction of meaning and the role of the interpretations of Being in the functioning of reason. The theological context illustrates the way in which the classical and modern philosophical interpretations of reason have shaped the constitution of theological meanings (exegesis, creeds, and dogmatics). Finally, through an epistemological analysis of Exodus 3:14, Canale shows that the biblical interpretation of Being provides the necessary ground to free Christian theology from the philosophically originated Onto-theo-logical interpretations of reason replacing it with a biblically originated Theo-onto-logical interpretation of theological reason. Canale hopes that a clearer understanding of reason's workings in theological discourse-particularly the biblical interpretation of Being and reason-will help Christians surmount current theological controversies and foment the ultimate ecumenical goal of Christian unity.

Author : Fernando Luis Canale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015014967247

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A Criticism of Theological Reason by Fernando Luis Canale Pdf

In this investigation of reason in its involvement in and relationships to both religion and theology, Canale analyzes the possibility of a theological criticism of theological reason as it pertains to the field of systematic theology.

Author : Herman Philipse
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199697533

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God in the Age of Science? by Herman Philipse Pdf

Herman Philipse puts forward a powerful new critique of belief in God. He examines the strategies that have been used for the philosophical defence of religious belief, and by careful reasoning casts doubt on the legitimacy of relying on faith instead of evidence, and on probabilistic arguments for the existence of God.

Author : Timothy Keller
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781101217658

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The Reason for God by Timothy Keller Pdf

A New York Times bestseller people can believe in—by "a pioneer of the new urban Christians" (Christianity Today) and the "C.S. Lewis for the 21st century" (Newsweek). Timothy Keller, the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, addresses the frequent doubts that skeptics, and even ardent believers, have about religion. Using literature, philosophy, real-life conversations, and potent reasoning, Keller explains how the belief in a Christian God is, in fact, a sound and rational one. To true believers he offers a solid platform on which to stand their ground against the backlash to religion created by the Age of Skepticism. And to skeptics, atheists, and agnostics, he provides a challenging argument for pursuing the reason for God.

Author : Richard Noble
Publisher : Ethics International Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781804412930

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An Analysis and Theological Critique of Education by Richard Noble Pdf

When we ask the question, “what is the purpose of education?” we are asking, “what is the purpose of educating human beings?” and any sincere answer to this question can only be advanced following our reflections upon the interrelated question, “what do we mean by being human?” This ‘Who are We?” question is embedded, though usually not explicitly, in school inspection regimes, in day-to-day teaching practice, and in all educational dialogue and policy. It affects the wellbeing of those on the frontline of education. But it is possible for staff, policy makers and academics to uncover these hidden assumptions, explore counter-narratives, and transform school curricula in the light of these reformed narratives. The author approaches these questions from a Christian Contemplative standpoint, via Radical Orthodoxy (RO) - an academic, persuasive and polemical sensibility - and through the prayerful and relational aspiration of the contemplative tradition. It takes as a central case study the inspection of a school by the UK Government inspection body, Ofsted, the Office for Standards in Education.

Author : Kelly James Clark
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990-03-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 080280456X

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Return to Reason by Kelly James Clark Pdf

Clark provides a penetrating critique of the Enlightenment assumption of evidentialism--that belief in God requires the support of evidence or arguments to be rational. His assertion is that this demand for evidence is itself both irrelevant and irrational. His work bridges the gap between technical philosopher and educated layperson.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 961 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:8596547804949

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THE THREE CRITIQUES: The Critique of Pure Reason, The Critique of Practical Reason & The Critique of Judgment by Immanuel Kant Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE THREE CRITIQUES: The Critique of Pure Reason, The Critique of Practical Reason & The Critique of Judgment" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. Kant here explains what he means by a critique of pure reason: "I do not mean by this a critique of books and systems, but of the faculty of reason in general, in respect of all knowledge after which it may strive independently of all experience." The Critique of Practical Reason is the second of Immanuel Kant's three critiques and it deals with his moral philosophy. The second Critique exercised a decisive influence over the subsequent development of the field of ethics and moral philosophy, beginning with Johann Gottlieb Fichte's Doctrine of Science. The Critique of Judgment, also translated as the Critique of the Power of Judgment completes the Critical project begun in the Critique of Pure Reason. The book is divided into two main sections: the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment and the Critique of Teleological Judgment, and also includes a large overview of the entirety of Kant's Critical system, arranged in its final form. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was a German philosopher, who, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is "the central figure of modern philosophy." Kant argued that fundamental concepts of the human mind structure human experience, that reason is the source of morality, that aesthetics arises from a faculty of disinterested judgment, that space and time are forms of our understanding, and that the world as it is "in-itself" is unknowable. Kant took himself to have effected a Copernican revolution in philosophy, akin to Copernicus' reversal of the age-old belief that the sun revolved around the earth. Table of Contents: THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON THE CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON THE CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT

Author : Carl Michalson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Faith
ISBN : UOM:49015000571191

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The Rationality of Faith by Carl Michalson Pdf

My goal will be to describe the rationality of the Christian faith. Rationality is a contextual concept. Inasmuch as the context of the Christian faith is history, I will specify its rationality by setting the Christian faith in the context of history alone. In pursuing this goal I will necessarily be guided by a great variety of intellectual suggestions. Most refreshing of all to me as theologian is the realization that for probably the first time in the history of the church the formulations of theology must now be instructed by the historiographers more than by the philosophers. I expect to show how it comes about that Christians and non-Christians alike impute to Christianity absurdities which are not really there, and how these absurdities may evaporate and give way to solidly redemptive meaning when the question of Christian understanding is rigorously set within the logic of history. - Introduction.

Author : Joris Geldhof
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9042919299

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Revelation, Reason and Reality by Joris Geldhof Pdf

This study provides an in-depth analysis of the relationship between modernity and Christianity. The author argues that the notion of revelation is eminently reasonable and indissolubly connected with being and reality. He takes Jaspers' philosophy of religion as representative of the 'classical' modern critique and gives it its due. He then takes a step backward, so to speak, and by means of a consideration of the history of ideas, seeks to rehabilitate the Christian understanding of revelation. To do this, he draws upon Schelling's remarkable philosophy of revelation and Baader's much less familiar speculative dogmatics. However, this study is much more than a profound philosophical and theological account of the thought of Jaspers, Schelling and Baader. It is above all an eloquent defence of the plausibility and intelligibility of what Christians have always believed. In fact, the author makes a compelling case for the claim that revelation is 'that without which Christianity cannot be thought'.

Author : John Milbank
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780470693315

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Theology and Social Theory by John Milbank Pdf

This is a revised edition of John Milbank’s masterpiece, which sketches the outline of a specifically theological social theory. The Times Higher Education Supplement wrote of the first edition that it was “a tour de force of systematic theology. It would be churlish not to acknowledge its provocation and brilliance”. Featured in The Church Times “100 Best Christian Books" Brings this classic work up-to-date by reviewing the development of modern social thought. Features a substantial new introduction by Milbank, clarifying the theoretical basis for his work. Challenges the notion that sociological critiques of theology are ‘scientific’. Outlines a specifically theological social theory, and in doing so, engages with a wide range of thinkers from Plato to Deleuze. Written by one of the world’s most influential contemporary theologians and the author of numerous books.

Author : Christopher C. Green,David I. Starling
Publisher : Lexham Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781683590996

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Revelation and Reason in Christian Theology by Christopher C. Green,David I. Starling Pdf

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.

Author : Hent de Vries
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781421437491

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Minimal Theologies by Hent de Vries Pdf

Originally published in in 2004. What, at this historical moment "after Auschwitz," still remains of the questions traditionally asked by theology? What now is theology's minimal degree? This magisterial study, the first extended comparison of the writings of Theodor W. Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas, explores remnants and echoes of religious forms in these thinkers' critiques of secular reason, finding in the work of both a "theology in pianissimo" constituted by the trace of a transcendent other. The author analyzes, systematizes, and formalizes this idea of an other of reason. In addition, he frames these thinkers' innovative projects within the arguments of such intellectual heirs as Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, defending their work against later accusations of "performative contradiction" (by Habermas) or "empiricism" (by Derrida) and in the process casting important new light on those later writers as well. Attentive to rhetorical and rational features of Adorno's and Levinas's texts, his investigations of the concepts of history, subjectivity, and language in their writings provide a radical interpretation of their paradoxical modes of thought and reveal remarkable and hitherto unsuspected parallels between their philosophical methods, parallels that amount to a plausible way of overcoming certain impasses in contemporary philosophical thinking. In Adorno, this takes the form of a dialectical critique of dialectics; in Levinas, that of a phenomenological critique of phenomenology, each of which sheds new light on ancient and modern questions of metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics. For the English-language publication, the author has extensively revised and updated the prize-winning German version.

Author : Kurt Hübner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226357090

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The Critique of Scientific Reason by Kurt Hübner Pdf

A systematic critique of the notion that natural science is the sovereign domain of truth, Critique of Scientific Reason uses an extensive and detailed investigation of physics—and in particular of Einstein's theory of relativity—to argue that the positivistic notion of rationality is not only wrongheaded but false. Kurt Hübner contends that positivism ignores both the historical dimension of science and the basic structures common to scientific theory, myth, and so-called subjective symbolic systems. Moreover, Hübner argues, positivism has led in our time to a widespread disillusionment with science and technology.