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Faith and Philosophy The Historical Impact

By D. G. Leahy Copyright 2003
194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

This title was first published in 2003. This work examines how Christian faith has historically impacted the notion of Nous or divine mind in Western thought up to and including the present. Christian faith is seen to have inaugurated an essential transformation over time of the ancient notion of divine mind and of thought in general. Beginning with an examination of Aristotle's notion of... Read more
1: Creation Ex Nihilo and the Aristotelian Essence; 2: Descartes and the Image of God; 3: Kant, Hegel, and the Proof of God; 4: Kierkegaard and the Absurdity of Faith; 5: Jefferson, Emerson, and the Incarnate Word; 6: Nietzsche, Levinas, and the Death of God; 7: The Logic of Faith, or, Beyond Modernity

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D. G. Leahy