Jesus and Philosophy: New Essays

What, if anything, does Jesus of Nazareth have to do with philosophy? This question motivates this collection of new essays from leading theologians, philosophers, and biblical scholars. Part I portrays Jesus in his first-century intellectual and historical context, attending to intellectual influences and contributions and contemporaneous similar patterns of thought. Part II examines how Jesus influenced two of the most prominent medieval philosophers. It considers the seeming conceptual shift from Hebraic categories of thought to distinctively Greco-Roman ones in later Christian philosophers. Part III considers the significance of Jesus for some prominent contemporary philosophical topics, including epistemology and the meaning of life. The focus is not so much on how "Christianity" figures in such topics as on how Jesus makes distinctive contributions to such topics.

Author: Paul K. Moser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 10/20/2008
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780521694865

Review Citation(s):
Christianity Today 01/01/2009 pg. 70
Choice 04/01/2009

About the Author
Moser, Paul K.: - Paul K. Moser is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Loyola University, Chicago. He is author of The Elusive God (Cambridge, 2008), and co-editor of Divine Hiddenness (Cambridge, 2002) and The Rationality of Theism (2003). He is also Editor of the journal American Philosophical Quarterly. His latest book is The Evidence for God, (Cambridge, 2010), aimed at a non-scholarly audience.