The Beginning of Christian Philosophy - Brossura

Osborn, Eric

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521298555 ISBN 13: 9780521298551

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Riassunto

The problems which Christians faced in the second-century world, with its variety of religious beliefs, have a close relation to those which confront them today. The new religion was presented with a range of external threats and criticism which evoked a vigourous, fundamental and imaginative response. The arguments of this most creative period of Christian thought were of a more general and philosophical kind than the discussions of dogmatic issues in the fourth and fifth centuries, and are properly regarded as the beginning of Christian philosophy, though this does not of course imply the emergence of a 'system' or a uniformly philosophical level of writing. Professor Osborn's method in this book, derived from analytic philosophy, is to elucidate specific questions which occupied four major writers from different centres of early Christianity: Justin, Irenaeus, Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria. Is there one God and can one speak of him? Is man free and has he any link with God? Why has a good God made a world in which evil is so evident? Has history a meaning? Who is Jesus Christ?

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The problems which Christians faced in the second-century world, with its variety of religious beliefs, have a close relation to those which confront them today. The new religion was presented with a range of external threats and criticism which evoked a vigourous, fundamental and imaginative response.

Contenuti:

1. Christian Argument; 2. People and Places; 3. The God Above; 4. The Rational Laughing Animal; 5. Cosmos and Creation; 6. History; 7. The Short.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521298555
• ISBN 13: 9780521298551
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336