[PDF] What Has Athens To Do With Jerusalem eBook

Author : Jaroslav Pelikan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 27,59 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9780472108077

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An important contribution to early Christian studies

Author : John Mark Reynolds
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 34,48 MB
Release : 2010-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830878866

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Christian theology shaped and is shaping many places in the world, but it was the Greeks who originally gave a philosophic language to Christianity. John Mark Reynolds's book When Athens Met Jerusalem provides students a well-informed introduction to the intellectual underpinnings (Greek, Roman and Christian) of Western civilization and highlights how certain current intellectual trends are now eroding those very foundations. This work makes a powerful contribution to the ongoing faith versus reason debate, showing that these two dimensions of human knowing are not diametrically opposed, but work together under the direction of revelation.

Author : Miriam Leonard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 34,10 MB
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226472477

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Taking on the question of how the glories of the classical world could be reconciled with the Bible, this book explains how Judaism played a vital role in defining modern philhellenism.

Author : David Novak
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1487524153

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This book argues that tensions between Jewish and Christian doctrine may be lessened if texts are regarded as philosophical frameworks of exploration as opposed to ethical commitments.

Author : Samuel Gregg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 35,10 MB
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1621579069

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"Gregg's book is the closet thing I've encountered in a long time to a one-volume user's manual for operating Western Civilization." —The Stream "Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization offers a concise intellectual history of the West through the prism of the relationship between faith and reason." —Free Beacon The genius of Western civilization is its unique synthesis of reason and faith. But today that synthesis is under attack—from the East by radical Islam (faith without reason) and from within the West itself by aggressive secularism (reason without faith). The stakes are incalculably high. The naïve and increasingly common assumption that reason and faith are incompatible is simply at odds with the facts of history. The revelation in the Hebrew Scriptures of a reasonable Creator imbued Judaism and Christianity with a conviction that the world is intelligible, leading to the flowering of reason and the invention of science in the West. It was no accident that the Enlightenment took place in the culture formed by the Jewish and Christian faiths. We can all see that faith without reason is benighted at best, fanatical and violent at worst. But too many forget that reason, stripped of faith, is subject to its own pathologies. A supposedly autonomous reason easily sinks into fanaticism, stifling dissent as bigoted and irrational and devouring the humane civilization fostered by the integration of reason and faith. The blood-soaked history of the twentieth century attests to the totalitarian forces unleashed by corrupted reason. But Samuel Gregg does more than lament the intellectual and spiritual ruin caused by the divorce of reason and faith. He shows that each of these foundational principles corrects the other’s excesses and enhances our comprehension of the truth in a continuous renewal of civilization. By recovering this balance, we can avoid a suicidal winner-take-all conflict between reason and faith and a future that will respect neither.