| Jesus and Philosophy: New Essays Contributor(s): Moser, Paul K. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521873363 ISBN-13: 9780521873369 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2008 Annotation: This book considers Jesus' contribution and significance to philosophy in historical and intellectual contexts. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - General - Religion | Christian Theology - Christology - Religion | Biblical Studies - New Testament - General |
| Dewey: 232.904 |
| LCCN: 2008031948 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 8.9" (0.95 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What, if anything, does Jesus of Nazareth have to do with philosophy? This question motivates this collection of new essays from leading theologians, philosophers, and biblical scholars. Part I portrays Jesus in his first-century intellectual and historical context, attending to intellectual influences and contributions and contemporaneous similar patterns of thought. Part II examines how Jesus influenced two of the most prominent medieval philosophers. It considers the seeming conceptual shift from Hebraic categories of thought to distinctively Greco-Roman ones in later Christian philosophers. Part III considers the significance of Jesus for some prominent contemporary philosophical topics, including epistemology and the meaning of life. The focus is not so much on how "Christianity" figures in such topics as on how Jesus makes distinctive contributions to such topics. |
Contributor Bio(s): Moser, Paul K.: - Paul K. Moser is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Loyola University, Chicago. He is author of The Elusive God (Cambridge, 2008), and co-editor of Divine Hiddenness (Cambridge, 2002) and The Rationality of Theism (2003). He is also Editor of the journal American Philosophical Quarterly. His latest book is The Evidence for God, (Cambridge, 2010), aimed at a non-scholarly audience. |