Sentences with phrase «western philosophy and theology»

For twenty - five centuries of Western philosophy and theology, apart from Judaism, only two forms of philosophical theism were widely known: what I call classical theism and classical pantheism, the latter best known as Stoicism (until Spinoza); the former was chiefly Islamic or Christian, except for some among the Jews.

Hartshorne's dependence upon Whitehead finds clearest expression in his enthusiastic adoption of Whitehead's view of the universe as essentially one of perpetual change and becoming, in opposition to the dominant views of traditional Western philosophy and theology that the basic realities of both God and the universe endure permanently without essential change.

Accordingly, the Whiteheadian - Hartshornian conception of the universe - in - process is squarely in opposition to the dominant views of traditional Western philosophy and theology.

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However, the relation between theology and philosophy is markedly altered once we fully recognize that the starting point of philosophy, that is, the fundamental vision with which the thinker begins, is historically conditioned and that Christian faith has played a major role in the formation of the Western vision.

Some turn to the East, particularly to Taoism; some to Native American perspectives and other primal traditions; some to emerging feminist visions; still others to neglected themes or traditions within the Western heritage, ranging from materials in Pythagorean philosophy to neglected themes in Plato to Leibniz or Spinoza; and still others to twentieth - century philosophers such as Heidegger or to philosophical movements such as the Deep Ecology movement.9 As one would expect in an age characterized by a split between religion and philosophy, few environmental philosophers turn to sources in the Bible or Christian theology for help, though some — Robin Attfield, for example — argue that Christian history has been wrongly maligned by environmental philosophers, and that it can serve as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230).

Niebuhr's prophetic politics, steeped in biblical theology, Greek classics, Western history and philosophy, depth psychology, and shrewd economic analysis, was the intellectual salvation of some of the most secular of statesmen and scholars.

A. Boyce Gibson in «The Two Strands of Natural Theology, «55 for example, analyzes the «two compelling conceptions of divinity» in Western philosophy the «self - sufficient» and the «outgoing.»

He draws his conclusions about reality mainly from existential and personalistic, Western European philosophy, Roman Catholic (neo --RRB- thomist theology and certain branches of Indian philosophy.

The aesthetic order of nature suggested by new physics, process theology, ecology, and Buddhist philosophy presents a radical shift from the currently dominant «logical order» of mainline Christianity and Western rational thought.

Western culture has been plunged into seemingly endless debates about what is art, or what is philosophy, or what is theology, and over and over again those who stirred such debates arrived at the answer that there are no answers.

Learning about Hindu philosophy and Western Idealist philosophers, such as Royce and Bosanquet, to whom my Indian Professor Dr. C. T. K. Chari introduced me, gave me an intellectual basis for a theology rooted in religious experience.

It can be contrasted effectively with the metaphysics of Being which has dominated Western philosophy and Christian theology.

Accordingly, he paid special attention to (1) the special place of Judaism and Christianity in Western civilization, which the first approach had stressed; (2) the relationship between the history of religions and philosophy of religion (or theology), which the second approach had emphasized; and (3) the concern North Americans had shown for specific religious traditions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam.

All of these types of thinking about theology are Western ways of thinking which stem primarily from Greek Philosophy and the Enlightenment.

How will evangelicals mediate between their secure North American white base, with theologies born of Western philosophy, to Asian and African matrices?

John Cobb reviews the history of the relationship between science and religion focusing on how Western science and Christian theology are both influenced by philosophy.

However, while Ogden is convinced that faith is unavoidable and a ground for faith is necessary, he also maintains that it is impossible to develop a coherent understanding of this divine ground utilizing the categories of traditional Western theology and philosophy.