A History of Western Philosophy and Theology
John M. Frame
Trace the evolution of Western thought as John M. Frame maps the dynamic and often turbulent relationship between philosophical inquiry and biblical theology. By mastering these intellectual foundations, you will gain the discernment to navigate modern worldviews and understand the deep-seated ideas that continue to shape our contemporary culture.
The Root of the Matter: Philosophy and Worldview
Introduction to the relationship between faith and reason, and the inescapable nature of presuppositions in all human thought.
The Myth of Neutrality
The Greek Dilemma
The Medieval Synthesis
How early Christian thinkers attempted to integrate biblical revelation with Greek philosophical categories.
Augustine: Faith Seeking Understanding
Aquinas and the Nature-Grace Dualism
The Modern Turn: Subjectivity and Certainty
The shift from God-centered to man-centered philosophy during the Renaissance and Enlightenment.
Descartes and the Quest for Certainty
Empiricism and the Road to Skepticism
The Kantian Revolution
Immanuel Kant's attempt to save science and morality by redefining the limits of human knowledge.
The Wall Between Worlds
Religion Within the Limits of Reason
The 19th Century: Systems and Rebellion
The rise of grand idealistic systems and the existentialist reactions against them.
Hegel: The God of History
The Individual Against the Crowd
The Materialist Alternative
20th Century Philosophical Fragmentation
The divergence of Western thought into Analytic and Continental traditions.
Language and Logic
Existence and Deconstruction
Modern Theology: Adaptation and Response
How the church responded to modernism through compromise, paradox, and radicalism.
Liberalism and the Feeling of Dependence
Neo-Orthodoxy: The Wholly Other God
The Radical and the Secular
Post-Conservative Currents
The Christian Outlook: Tri-Perspectivalism
Frame's constructive proposal for a biblical way of knowing and interpreting history.
The Three Perspectives
Applying the Lordship Attributes
Evaluating the History
Living Coram Deo
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