Numen, Vol. 63, No. 2/3, Special Issue: Divine Word and Divine Work: Late Platonism and Religion (2016), pp. 245-270 (26 pages) The development of medieval Christian thought reveals from its inception ...
With its synthesis of Christian and Platonic thought, the Cambridge school, a 17th-century circle of Anglican theologians and philosophers, made an as yet hardly recognised contribution to the ...
Many theologians pine to write for a broader audience and not just fellow guild members. Few ever try it. Perhaps we’re afraid of being taken less seriously. Perhaps reading and writing for others ...
Alfred North Whitehead memorably described the history of Western philosophy as “a series of footnotes to Plato.” Perhaps this is even more apt as a description of the history of Christian philosophy.
The Closing of the Western Mind. Charles Freeman. Knopf. $24. 432 pp. Classical Greek writers, an argumentative group if there ever was one, agreed on one thing: Political justice could be achieved in ...