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An Elementary Christian Metaphysics
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Book Synopsis An Elementary Christian Metaphysics by : Joseph Owens
Download or read book An Elementary Christian Metaphysics written by Joseph Owens and published by University of Notre Dame Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Owens presents an introduction to metaphysics designed to develop in the reader a habitus of thinking. Using original Thomistic texts and Etienne Gilson's interpretation of St. Thomas Aquinas, Owens examines the application of metaphysical principles to the issues that arise in a specifically Christian environment. An Elementary Christian Metaphysics focuses on questions of existence and the nature of revealed truths. Following his historical introduction to metaphysics, Owens provides a general investigation of the first principles and causes of being and also a study of knowledge and of the divine nature and attributes in light of natural reason. "Irrespective of one's intellectual genotype, an exposure to the sustained, developmental elucidation of Aquinas' insights executed by an author such as Owens can only enhance any metaphysical approach to reality." --The New Scholastic "An Elementary Christian Metaphysics is intended primarily for undergraduate students as an introduction to metaphysics. . . . The scope of the metaphysical study pursued by Owens includes not only a general investigation of beings but also an analysis of knowledge (epistemology) and of the divine nature, all in light of natural reason." --Studies in Religion Joseph Owens (1908-2005) taught philosophy at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and the University of Toronto for forty years. He is the author of a number of books, including An Interpretation of Existence, also published by the University of Notre Dame Press.
Book Synopsis A Not-So-Elementary Christian Metaphysics by : Peter Redpath
Download or read book A Not-So-Elementary Christian Metaphysics written by Peter Redpath and published by Proving Press. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book's chief aim is novel and radical: to reunite philosophy, science, and wisdom (which had initially been separated several centuries ago by Rene Descartes) through a synthesis of two new interpretations, one of the nature of ancient Greek philosophy and science, and, two, of the metaphysical teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas about philosophy and science."
Book Synopsis A Not-So-Elementary Christian Metaphysics by : Peter Redpath
Download or read book A Not-So-Elementary Christian Metaphysics written by Peter Redpath and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing short of a metaphysical disturbance and metaphysical revolution of the highest order can resolve the West's and the world's current cultural, political, and civilizational problems. Dr. Redpath's contribution to resolving this metaphysical crisis has been chiefly to add to the vision of his mentors the dimension that the only way to reunite science and wisdom is through uniting philosophy and science, and the only way to reunite philosophy and science is through a new interpretation of Western intellectual history, especially that of the nature of ancient philosophy and of the teachings of St. Thomas. While in the first volume of this series, Dr. Redpath endeavored to accomplish this re-interpretation, in this second volume, he has sought chiefly to consider essential implications regarding the nature of the reunion between philosophy and science and the teachings of St. Thomas. He expects that he has helped his mentors give birth to aradically new interpretation of St. Thomas (what some colleagues of his and he have started to call "Born Again Thomism" or "Ragamuffin Thomism") as well as a radically new interpretation of philosophy and science.
Book Synopsis A Not-So-Elementary Christian Metaphysics by : Peter Redpath
Download or read book A Not-So-Elementary Christian Metaphysics written by Peter Redpath and published by Proving Press. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book's chief aim is novel and radical: to reunite philosophy, science, and wisdom (which had initially been separated several centuries ago by Rene Descartes) through a synthesis of two new interpretations, one of the nature of ancient Greek philosophy and science, and, two, of the metaphysical teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas about philosophy and science."
Book Synopsis A Not-So-Elementary Christian Metaphysics, Volume 1: Written in the Hope of Ending the Centuries-old Separation Between Philosophy and Science and Sci by : Peter Redpath
Download or read book A Not-So-Elementary Christian Metaphysics, Volume 1: Written in the Hope of Ending the Centuries-old Separation Between Philosophy and Science and Sci written by Peter Redpath and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book's chief aim is novel and radical: to reunite philosophy, science, and wisdom (which had initially been separated several centuries ago by René Descartes) through a synthesis of two new interpretations, one of the nature of ancient Greek philosophy and science, and, two, of the metaphysical teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas about philosophy and science.
Book Synopsis Four Views on Christian Metaphysics by : Timothy M. Mosteller
Download or read book Four Views on Christian Metaphysics written by Timothy M. Mosteller and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Views on Christian Metaphysics presents four prominent views held among Christians today on the major questions in philosophical metaphysics. What is the nature of existence itself? What is it for something to exist? What are universals? What is the soul? How do these things relate to God, in light of special and general revelation? The four Christian perspectives presented in this book are: Platonism, Aristotelianism, idealism, and postmodernism. The purpose of this book is to help Christians think deeply and carefully about a Christian view of the ultimate nature of reality and our place in it.
Book Synopsis A Not-So-Elementary Christian Metaphysics, Volume 2 by : Peter Redpath
Download or read book A Not-So-Elementary Christian Metaphysics, Volume 2 written by Peter Redpath and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing short of a metaphysical disturbance and metaphysical revolution of the highest order can resolve the West's and the world's current cultural, political, and civilizational problems. Dr. Redpath's contribution to resolving this metaphysical crisis has been chiefly to add to the vision of his mentors the dimension that the only way to reunite science and wisdom is through uniting philosophy and science, and the only way to reunite philosophy and science is through a new interpretation of Western intellectual history, especially that of the nature of ancient philosophy and of the teachings of St. Thomas.While in the first volume of this series, Dr. Redpath endeavored to accomplish this re-interpretation, in this second volume, he has sought chiefly to consider essential implications regarding the nature of the reunion between philosophy and science and the teachings of St. Thomas. He expects that he has helped his mentors give birth to a radically new interpretation of St. Thomas (what some colleagues of his and he have started to call "Born Again Thomism" or "Ragamuffin Thomism") as well as a radically new interpretation of philosophy and science.
Book Synopsis Aquinas: Summa Theologiae, Questions on God by : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Download or read book Aquinas: Summa Theologiae, Questions on God written by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-16 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Aquinas (1224/6-1274) was one of the greatest of the medieval philosophers. His Summa Theologiae is his most important contribution to Christian theology, and one of the main sources for his philosophy. This volume offers most of the Summa's first 26 questions, including all of those on the existence and nature of God. Based on the 1960 Blackfriars translation, this version has been extensively revised by Brian Davies and also includes an introduction by Brian Leftow which places the questions in their philosophical and historical context. The result is an accessible and up-to-date edition of Aquinas' thoughts on the nature and existence of God, both of which have continuing relevance for the philosophy of religion and Christian theology.
Book Synopsis Being and Some Philosophers by : Étienne Gilson
Download or read book Being and Some Philosophers written by Étienne Gilson and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1952 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of being was one of the main preoccupations of Etienne Gilson's scholarly and intellectual life. Being and Some Philosophers is at once a testament to the persistence of those concerns and an important landmark in the history of the question of being. The book charts the ways in which being is translated across history, from unity in Plato and substance in Aristotle to essence in Avicenna and the act of existence in Aquinas. It examines the vicissitudes of essence and existence in Suarez and Christian Wolff, in Hegel and Kierkegaard, in order to uncover the metaphysical and existential foundations of modern thought. And yet Being and Some Philosophers remains not so much an historical investigation (although it could only have been written by a scholar steeped in the history of philosophy) but, in the words of its author, "a philosophical book, and a dogmatically philosophical one at that." Its passionate vigour has proven, over many years, at once fresh and provocative. Indeed, the appendix to this revised edition contains critiques of the book by two Thomists as well as Gilson's replies to their objections.
Download or read book Cognition written by Joseph Owens and published by University of Notre Dame Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognition is a basic introductory text for college courses in the philosophy of knowledge. Joseph Owens, C.Ss.R., here expands the narrowly metaphysical treatment of knowledge given in his earlier book, An Elementary Christian Metaphysics, into a full-fledged epistemology. This text utilizes the traditions of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas to reacquaint students of philosophy with a number of insights basic for a philosophic understanding of knowledge. These insights into the nature of abstraction, truth, the ground of certitude, and other major concerns of epistemology will help students clarify the approaches of contemporary philosophies.
Book Synopsis The Named God And The Question Of Being by : Stanley J. Grenz
Download or read book The Named God And The Question Of Being written by Stanley J. Grenz and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Stanley Grenz examines the long-standing trajectory of thought that has equated the concept of "being" with the God of the Bible--and thus claimed that the ontological category of being is the guiding concept by which God should be understood. Grenz extends the engagement between Christian theology and the Western philosophical tradition and focuses the discussion on the importance of naming, particularly given that the Christian God is both named and triune. In doing so, he organizes the book into three parts, forming an overarching story of the interplay between the named character of God and the question of being. First he analyzes the history of the philosophical concept of Being, then he shifts the focus to an exegesis of the "I Am" texts, and finally he moves to a renewed conversation between theology and ontological philosophy by means of the divine name.
Book Synopsis On Being and Essence by : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Download or read book On Being and Essence written by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1968 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers more the reader more aids -- including notes and a commentary -- than does any other translation.
Book Synopsis Christian Philosophy by : Craig G. Bartholomew
Download or read book Christian Philosophy written by Craig G. Bartholomew and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third book in a series of successful introductory textbooks by Craig Bartholomew and Michael Goheen builds on their previous projects, The Drama of Scripture and Living at the Crossroads, to offer a comprehensive narrative of philosophical thought from a distinctly Christian perspective. After exploring the interaction among Scripture, worldview, theology, and philosophy, the authors tell the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through postmodern times, positioning the philosophers in their historical contexts and providing Christian critique along the way. The authors emphasize the Reformed philosophical tradition without neglecting other historical trajectories and show how philosophical thought relates to contemporary life.
Book Synopsis The Way Toward Wisdom by : Benedict M. Ashley O.P.
Download or read book The Way Toward Wisdom written by Benedict M. Ashley O.P. and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2006-07-31 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once thought to be the task of metaphysics, the synthesis of knowledge has been discounted by many philosophers today. Benedict Ashley, a leading Thomistic scholar, argues that it remains a valid and intellectually fruitful pursuit by situating metaphysics as an endeavor that must cross disciplinary and cultural boundaries. Working from a realist Thomistic epistemology, Ashley asserts that we must begin our search for wisdom in the natural sciences; only then, he believes, can we ensure that our claims about immaterial and invisible things are rooted in reliable experience of the material. Any attempt to share wisdom, he insists, must derive from a context that is both interdisciplinary and intercultural. Ashley offers an ambitious analysis and synthesis of major historical contributions to the unification of knowledge, including non-Western traditions. Beginning with the question "Metaphysics: Nonsense or Wisdom?" Ashley moves from a critical examination of the foundations of modern science to quantum physics and the Big Bang; from Aristotle's theory of being and change, through Aquinas's five ways, to a critical analysis of modern and postmodern thought. Ashley is able to interweave the approaches of the great philosophers by demonstrating their contributions to philosophical thought in a concrete, specific manner. In the process, he accounts for a contemporary culture overwhelmed by the fragmentation of data and thirsting for an utterly transcendent yet personal God. The capstone of a remarkable career, The Way Toward Wisdom will be welcomed by students in philosophy and theology.
Book Synopsis Christian Metaphysics by : Harold Bledsoe
Download or read book Christian Metaphysics written by Harold Bledsoe and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the few who seek the wisdom that draws them closer to the redeeming embrace of our Heavenly Father as taught by his Son, rather than the religion of man that binds them in darkness, leading them in the way of the blind. Within the pages of this book you will find spiritual insights to unlock the doors to the passageway of understanding, where you can inquire to know and learn the hidden mysteries written within the word of God. For each word written, on each page, is subject to one purpose, the Evolution of one's Soul from Wretchedness to Righteousness, walking the Enlightened Path to God.
Download or read book Metaphysics written by Donald Wallenfang and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is metaphysics? Metaphysics: A Basic Introduction in a Christian Key gives a simplified answer to this daunting question. Born under the shadow of the Parthenon by Aristotle and his contemporaries, metaphysics eventually enjoyed its heyday in the medieval era and is finding a resurgence today in modernity. This book explores the perennial question of being and its uptake in the world of Christian theology. Donald Wallenfang leads the reader through five navigable chapters that feature the most basic themes of metaphysics: the question of being, first principles, causality, cosmology, and morality. The abstract tendencies of metaphysics are brought down to earth with reference to the gospel of Jesus and the relevance of metaphysics for daily living. Altogether, the reader will be inspired to think toward the whole by asking questions that penetrate beneath the surface of things. Beauty, truth, and goodness will be unveiled to the degree that we accompany Jesus the metaphysician along his itinerary of being given.
Book Synopsis God, Our Universal Self by : Joseph Adam Pearson
Download or read book God, Our Universal Self written by Joseph Adam Pearson and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the publication of this book, the author has completed his trilogy on Christian metaphysics. (Each of the three books in the series may be used on a stand-alone basis.) The author's first book, entitled "As I See It: The Nature of Reality by God," is intended to be read first in the series. It is written as a narrative in the first person singular as if God were writing in order to more fully engage readers in their introduction to Christian metaphysics. The author's second book, entitled "Divine Metaphysics of Human Anatomy," is intended to be read last in the series. After the author wrote it, he recognized the need for a more basic book on Christian metaphysics - a primer of sorts - not for understanding past works on Christian metaphysics by other authors but for future studies on Christian metaphysics that would make it more understandable and practical for students to use during the third millennium of the Christian era. This current book, entitled "God, Our Universal Self: A Primer for Future Christian Metaphysics," is meant to be read second in the series - after "As I See It: The Nature of Reality by God" but before "Divine Metaphysics of Human Anatomy." Whereas the first book is meant to help students understand how to look at life from the standpoint of Christian metaphysics, this second book is meant to help the reader think metaphysically and solve problems daily using Christian metaphysics. The third book completes the trilogy by presenting a detailed view of the human body from the standpoint of contemporary Christian metaphysics; it is intended for advanced students of Christian metaphysics. All three books, taken together, will help their readers understand how spiritual reality and physical reality are interwoven. The three books will also enable readers to harmonize mainstream Christianity with Christian metaphysics by helping them to see that the two areas are complementary and not contradictory. Finally, the trilogy will enable readers to harmonize Biblical truth with facts and well-grounded theories from the natural sciences. (The only way to harmonize some aspects of the two is through Christian metaphysics.) All three books will be useful not only to Christians before the return of Christ Jesus but also to those living during his Millennial rule on earth: At the time of their initial publication, these three books are the only books that have been written intentionally for a readership living during the 1,000 years that Christ Jesus reigns on earth.
