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Ashgate Studies in the History of Philosophical Theology provide students and researchers in the field with the means of consolidating and re-appraising philosophy of religion's recent appropriation of its past. This new Ashgate series offers a focused cluster of high profile titles presenting critical, authoritative surveys of key thinkers' ideas as they bear upon topics central to the philosophy of religion. Summarizing contemporary and historical perspectives on the writings and philosophies of each thinker, the books concentrate on moving beyond mere surveys and engage with recent international scholarship and the author's own critical research on their chosen thinker. Each book provides an accessible, stimulating new contribution to thinkers from ancient, through medieval, to modern periods.
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Philosophical Theology and Christian Doctrine surveys and assesses recent work on the doctrines of the Christian creed by philosophers of religion in the analytic tradition. The topics covered include the core doctrines of revelation, creation, incarnation, the Trinity, salvation, and eschatology. This volume serves as an excellent resource for readings looking to explore meaning and plausibility in Christian theology by careful, philosophical scrutiny of Christian doctrine.
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Darren J. N. Middleton is a graduate of the University of Oxford and the University of Glasgow and a past recipient of the Owen Chadwick Prize in Philosophical Theology. He currently teaches religion and culture at Texas Christian University. His previous publications include God’s Struggler: Religion in the Writings of Nikos Kazantzakis which he coedited with Peter A. Bien.
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[W]hile modernity raised serious, perhaps insurmountable problems for the "perfect being theology" of the medieval period, the question of God remained a deep and abiding concern in many of the great modern philosophical systems. Clayton shows how key thinkers of the modern period continued to wrestle with the concept of God as "infinite" and "perfect" and to make fresh proposals for understanding the divine. The sophisticated models of God developed by Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Fichte, and Schelling, among others, are presented, analyzed, and constructively applied to contemporary philosophical theology. Clayton's penetrating work reveals the resources that modern thought continues to offer to philosophical theologians. Ultimately, he finds in the narrative of modern thought about God strong support for panentheism, the new theological movement that maintains the transcendence of God while denying the separation of God and the world.
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Philip Clayton's monumental account of the history of philosophical theology analyzes such figures as Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Spinoza, Fichte, and Schelling in describing how the question of God became problematical in the modern period. It is widely believed that modern philosophers have dismissed the idea of God and opted instead for a secular humanism. Challenging these stereotypes through a careful study of major philosophical texts written since the Enlightenment, Clayton shows how the main thinkers of the modern period have continued to wrestle with the problem of God and to make proposals for understanding the divine. Analysis of the respective models of God presented by these thinkers is then constructively applied to contemporary philosophical theology. In doing so, Clayton argues for a notion of panentheism, whereby God's transcendence is maintained without severing the relationship between God and the world.
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An investigation of major themes in the philosophical theology of Anselm of Canterbury with special reference to his development of God's existence and nature from the concept of God as a perfect being. Elective.
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