Scottish Philosophical Theology 1700-2000

This volume concentrates on the period from the beginning of the 18th century to the latter part of the 20th. It is impossible to depict a single school of philosophical theology in Scotland across three centuries, yet several strains have been identified that suggest some recurrent themes or intellectual habits. These include the following: the mutually beneficial cross-fertilisation of the disciplines of philosophy and theology; the tendency to eschew powerful philosophical systems that might threaten to imprison theological ideas; a stress on both the providential limitations and reliability of human reason; a suspicion of reductive theories of a materialist inclination; and a determination to inspect critically the proposals of theology and to place these in positive relation to other disciplines.

Author: David Fergusson
Publisher: Imprint Academic
Published: 09/01/2007
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.32h x 5.40w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780907845775