Introduction : Philosophy and religion as traditions -- Plato's inquiries : the gods and the good -- Plato's spirituality : the immortal soul and the other world -- Aristotle and Plato : cosmos, contemplation and happiness -- Plotinus : Neoplatonism and the ultimate unity of all-- The Jewish scriptures -- Platonist philsoophy and scriptural religion -- The New Testament : life in Christ -- Rabbinic Judaism : Israel and the Torah -- Church Fathers : the Logos made flesh -- The development of Christian Platonism -- Jewish rationalism and mysticism : Maimonides and Kabbalah.
Classical theism : proofs and attributes of God -- Medieval Christian theology : nature and grace -- Late medieval nominalism and Christian mysticism -- Protestantism : problems of grace -- Decartes, Locke, and the crisis of modernity -- Leibniz and theodicy -- Hume's critique of religion -- Kant : reason limited to experience -- Kant : morality as the basis of religion -- Schleiermacher : feeling as the basis of religion.
Hegel : a philosophical history of religion -- Marx and the Hermeneutics of suspicion -- Kierkegaard : Existentialism and the leap of faith -- Nietzsche : critic of Christian morality -- Neo-orthodoxy : the subject and object of faith -- Encountering the biblical other : Buber and Levinas -- Process philosophy : God in time -- Logical empiricism and the meaning of religion -- "Reformed" epistemology and the rationality of belief -- Conclusion : philosophy and religion today.
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