SCM Studyguide

Philosophy and the Christian Faith

By: Ben Pugh

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Paperback | 31 December 2018

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The challenges that Western culture keeps posing to the Christian faith are ever new. The goal-posts keep changing. This study guide will equip theology students to understand the culture-shaping beliefs that are driving the kinds of questions it brings to faith. It will be an historical overview of the key stages in the history of Western philosophy with each section carefully tracing the genealogical line of ideas and the Christian responses to them, right up to the present day.

For most theology students, learning abstract philosophical concepts involves literally learning a new language, a language that the initiated converse in with ease but which leaves the uninitiated baffled. Thus, each chapter in this study guide opens with a glossary of terms.

Throughout the studyguide students are encouraged to reflect on the ways in which what has been learned might be applied in both explicitly theological and wider cultural contexts - for example, they might be asked to think of a film or book that seems to express elements of existentialism or postmodernism, or to describe how something very like the extreme subjectivity of idealism can sometimes shows itself in Sunday morning worship.

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'This is a very clearly structured and well written survey of the history of philosophy and how different philosophies have influenced Christian theology. Pugh has a real talent for explaining complex philosophical ideas and theories in an accessible and entertaining way. The SCM Studyguide to Philosophy and the Christian Faith will be a very useful resource for anyone studying or teaching the history of philosophy. I will certainly be using it in my classes!' -- David Law, Professor of Christian Thought and Philosophical Theology, University of Manchester

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