Faith Within Reason

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9547-1
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 242 g

Posthumously, McCabe's writings have enjoyed quite astonishing and welcome success.
- Herbert McCabe was certainly one of the most outstanding Dominican theologians of the Post War Years.
- McCabe has been praised by people as varied as Rowan Williams, P.J. Kavanagh, Anthony Kenny and Terry Eagleton.

Is it possible to think about religious beliefs philosophically? Should religious beliefs be viewed as a flight from reason or as capable of rational support? Can theologians learn from philosophers? Can philosophers learn from theologians? Is it possible to be both a good Christian and a good thinker? Can there be such a thing as reasonable faith?

This book is chiefly concerned with these questions and others related to them. A collection of previously unpublished papers written by the late Herbert McCabe O.P., it examines the nature of religious belief, especially belief in God, with an eye on both theological and philosophical arguments. Some thinkers have sought to drive a wedge between philosophy and theology. Like Thomas Aquinas, whose writings he especially admired, McCabe seeks to show how the two can be systematically connected. Some religious truths, he argues, may defy our understanding. But this does not mean that they cannot be reasonably discussed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mccabe, Herbert

Davies, Brian

Turner, Denys

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Christliche Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Denys Turner
Introduction by Brian Davies O.P.
1. Is Belief Wishful Thinking?
2. Are Creeds Credible?
3. Doubt is Not Unbelief
4. Why God?
5. Causes and God
6. A Very Short Introduction to Aquinas
7. Aquinas on 'God is Good'
8. Soul, Life, Machines, and Language
9. Son of God
10. Forgiveness
11. Immaculate Conception
12. Freedom

Über Autor(innen)

Herbert McCabe was a Dominican Friar and theologian of outstanding originality who died in 2001. He was deeply influential on philosophers such as Anthony Kenny and Alasdair MacIntyre and poets and writers like Terry Eagleton and Seamus Heaney.

Friar Brian Davies is a Dominican and is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, New York.

Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity, and Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge.