Logic in Orthodox Christian thinking / Andrew Schumann (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schumann, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Faith and reason--Christianity.

Faith and reason.

Orthodox Eastern Church members.

Logic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt ; New Brunswick : Ontos Verlag, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Orthodox Christian thought is the most modally rigorous way of inferring. The subject of the book is to investigate possibilities of explicating the Orthodox thought from the viewpoint of analytic philosophy and symbolic logic. The claim that Orthodox thinking is just mystic and illogical is not true. The logical culture of Orthodox Christian thinking is unknown and ununderstandable for the West, although its schemata are very influential in Eastern Europe till now (Marxism-Leninism is just one of their possible instances). This thought can be called totalistic or even totalitarian. For this thought any truth or falsity is necessary. As a result, the whole world is presented as logical and nomothetic and there is no place for contingency.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Gregory Palamas and Our Knowledge of God / Swinburne, Richard

The Logic of Palamism / Rojek, Paweł

On Contradiction in Orthodox Philosophy / Rhodes, Michael Craig

The Logic of the Incarnation / Duenger Bøhn, Einar

Techniques and Rules of Ineffability in the Dionysian Corpus / Knepper, Timothy D.

The Fluttering of Autumn Leaves: Logic, Mathematics, and Metaphysics in Florensky's The Pillar and Ground of the Truth / Foltz, Bruce

Stoic Roots of Orthodox Christian Thinking / Schumann, Andrew

Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite: Modal Ontology / Lourié, Basil

Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-86838-179-1

3-11-032062-2

OCLC:

854858175