| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 331 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I: Metaphilosophy -- St Ephrem and the Pursuit of Wisdom -- The Emergence of the Scholastic Attitude Towards Philosophy in Greek Patristic Thought -- Part II: Philosophical Theology and Metaphysics -- What We Can and Cannot Say: An Apophatic Response to Atheism -- Divine Impassibility in Eastern Patristic Thought: Origen of Alexandria and Gregory Thaumaturgus -- Gregory of Nyssa on the Individuation of Actions and Events -- Part III: Epistemology and Philosophy of Language -- Warranted Eastern Christian Belief: Extending Plantinga’s Extended AC Model -- The Mystery of Words: Orthodox Theology and Philosophy of Language -- Part IV Ecological Philosophy and Bioethics -- Agency and Responsibility: Ecologically Inflected Insights from the Syriac Tradition -- Eastern Roman Theology and Its Philosophical Insights for Transhumanist and Transgender Understandings of the Body -- Part V Social and Political Philosophy -- Christian Philosophy as a Philosophy of Crisis: Re-reading Florensky in the Twenty-First Century -- Race in the Afterlife: An Eastern Christian Approach -- Theosis and Human Rights: Two Orthodox Approaches |
| Summary |
With few exceptions, the field of Eastern Christian studies has primarily been concerned with historical-critical analysis, hermeneutics, and sociology. For the most part it has not attempted to bring Eastern Christian philosophy into serious engagement with contemporary thought. This volume seeks to redress the matter by bringing the Eastern Christian tradition into a meaningful dialogue with contemporary philosophy. It boasts a diverse group of scholarsspecialists in ancient philosophy, analytic philosophy, and continental philosophywho engage with a wide range of pressing issues. Among other things, it addresses such topics as contemporary atheism, the metaphysics of action, religious epistemology, the philosophy of language, bioethics, the philosophy of race, and human rights. In so doing, it aims to introduce contemporary readers to unique perspectives and novel arguments often overlooked by mainstream anglophone philosophy |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 19, 2022) |
| Subject |
Christian philosophy.
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Eastern churches.
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Christian philosophy
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Eastern churches
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Siemens, James, editor.
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Brown, Joshua Matthan, editor
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| ISBN |
9783031107627 |
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3031107624 |
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