God as reason : essays in philosophical theology / Vittorio Hösle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hösle, Vittorio, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical theology.

Philosophy and religion.

Physical Description:

xiii, 407 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2013]

Summary:

In God as Reason: Essays in Philosophical Theology, Vittorio Hösle presents a systematic exploration of the relation between theology and philosophy. In examining the problems and historical precursors of rational theology, he calls on philosophy, theology, history of science, and the history of ideas to find an interpretation of Christianity that is compatible with a genuine commitment to reason. The essays in the first part of God as Reason deal with issues of philosophical theology. Hösle sketches the challenges that a rationalist theology must face and discusses some of the central ones, such as the possibility of a teleological interpretation of nature after Darwin, the theodicy issue, freedom versus determinism, the mindbody problem, and the relation in general between religion, theology, and philosophy. In the essays of the second part, Hösle studies the historical development of philosophical approaches to the Bible, the continuity between the New Testament concept of pneuma and the concept of Geist (spirit) in German idealism, and the rationalist theologies of Anselm, Abelard, Llull, and Nicholas of Cusa, whose innovative philosophy of mathematics is the topic of one of the chapters. The book concludes with a thorough evaluation of Charles Taylor's theory of secularization. This ambitious work will interest students and scholars of philosophical theology and philosophy of religion as well as historians of ideas and science.

Contents:

The idea of a rationalistic philosophy of religion and its challenges

Why teleological principles are inevitable for reason : natural theology after Darwin

Theodicy strategies in Leibniz, Hegel, Jonas

Rationalism, determinism, freedom

Encephalius : a conversation about the mind-body problem

Religion, theology, pihlosophy

Philosophy and the interpretation of the Bible

To what extent is the concept of spirit (Geist) in German idealism a legitimate heir to the concept of spirit (pneuma) in the New Testament?

Reasons, emotions, and God's presence in Anselm of Canterbury's dialogue Cur Deus homo (with Bernd Goebel)

Interreligious dialogues during the Middle Ages and early modernity

Platonism and anti-Platonism in Nicholas of Cusa's philosophy of mathematics

Can Abraham be saved? and: Can Kierkegaard be saved? A Hegelian discussion of Fear and trembling

A metaphysical history of atheism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0268030987

9780268030988

OCLC:

820434469

Publisher Number:

99954657405