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From Faith in Reason to Reason in Faith

Transformations in Philosophical Theology from the Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries

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From Faith in Reason to Reason in Faith

Transformations in Philosophical Theology from the Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries

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If the philosophers of the Enlightenment had hoped to establish, once and for all, that reason is the primary source of human orientation, twentieth century philosophy has demonstrated all too clearly that reason is far from having clear boundaries. In this respect, Immanuel Kant’s contemporaries and critics, Johann Georg Hamann and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, look surprisingly modern. Faith is now increasingly recognized as intrinsic to social identity and thus no more capable of taking a permanently subordinate role to reason—whatever that may be—than reason is capable of an existence free from social embodiment. This collection of thirteen essays focuses upon major philosophical and theological debates from the past three hundred years. Written by leading international scholars, this remarkable text takes the reader through major transitions in the modern understanding of faith and reason. It thus provides an invaluable guide to the history of modern philosophical theology whilst informing readers why the relationship between faith and reason remains an issue of major social and philosophical importance.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Heung-wah Wong
Introduction
Wayne Cristaudo

1Faith and Reflexivity: Reflections on Language
and the “Semiotic Turn”
Christopher Hutton

2The Destructive Potential of the God of Reason (Reimarus)
Englehard Weigl

3The Material God in Diderot’s D’Alembert’s Dream
Miran Bozovic

4Anthropologist of Enlightenment: Purity, Pollution,
and Forbidden Mixtures in Hamann’s Metacriticism
Peter J. Leithart

5Hegel on Kant, Fichte, Jacobi:
Being Reasonable about Faith and Knowledge
Wayne Cristaudo

6Beyond Paradox:
Faith and Reason in the Thought of Søren Kierkegaard
Murray Rae

7Nature, Nurture and Nietzsche’s Faith in Life
Nalin Ranasinghe

8Reason and Faith:
A Comparison of Immanuel Kant and Albert Schweitzer
Predrag Cicovacki

9Faith and Reason: Shestov and Gilson
Mathew Del Nevo

10Karl Barth: Reason Beyond Autonomy?
Phillip Tolliday

11Consciousness and Transcendence:
Voegelin and Lonergan on the Reasonableness of Faith
Glenn Hughes

12Reason and Violence in Girard’s Mimetic Theory:
The Anthropology of the Cross
Robert Hamerton-Kelly

13The Spirit Has Reasons That Rationalists Cannot Fathom:
The Emergence of Christian Dao-ology
in Late Twentieth Century China
Lauren Pfister

Index
Contributors

Product details

Published Dec 09 2011
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 238
ISBN 9780761854906
Imprint University Press of America
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Wayne Cristaudo

Anthology Editor

Heung-wah Wong

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