ENGLISH

Scottish Philosophical Theology

By David Fergusson

Book information

Publisher
Andrews UK Ltd.
Year
2007
ISBN
9781845404499, 9780907845775
LCC
BT40 -- .S37 2007eb
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
945 kB (967410 bytes)
Series
Library of Scottish Philosophy
Edition
1
Pages
279\0
Time added
2023-08-03 19:24:37
Doctrinal -- Scotland. ; Scotland -- Religion.Philosophical theology. ; Theology

Description

This volume concentrates on the period from the beginning of the 18th century to the latter part of the 20th. It is impossible to depict a single school of philosophical theology in Scotland across three centuries, yet several strains have been identified that suggest some recurrent themes or intellectual habits. These include the following: the mutually beneficial cross-fertilisation of the disciplines of philosophy and theology; the tendency to eschew powerful philosophical systems that might threaten to imprison theological ideas; a stress on both the providential limitations and reliability of human reason; a suspicion of reductive theories of a materialist inclination; and a determination to inspect critically the proposals of theology and to place these in positive relation to other disciplines.

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