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Rethinking Philosophy in Light of the Bible - From Kant to Schopenhauer (Hardcover)
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Rethinking Philosophy in Light of the Bible - From Kant to Schopenhauer (Hardcover)
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Rethinking Philosophy in Light of the Bible analyzes the ideas that
are central to the philosophy of Kant, Hegel, and Kierkegaard in
order to show that they are biblical in origin, both ontologically
and historically. Brayton Polka argues that Schopenhauer has an
altogether false conception of the fundamental ideas of the
Bible-creation, the Fall of Adam and Eve, and covenantal love-and
of Christianity, which leaves his philosophy irredeemably
contradictory, as he himself acknowledges. The aim, then, is to
show that our modern values, the values that constitute modernity,
are biblical in origin. It is only when we come to understand that
modernity is biblical from the beginning and that the Bible is
modern unto the end that we are able to overcome the opposition, so
evident today, between philosophy and theology, between reason and
faith, and between the secular and the religious. Polka makes
central the distinction that Kierkegaard draws between Christianity
and Christendom: Christianity represents the coming into historical
existence of the single individual; Christendom represents
Christian values that are rationalized in pagan terms. As
Kierkegaard shows us, if God has always existed eternally, then he
has never existed eternally, then he has never come into historical
existence for the single individual. The distinction between
Christianity and Christendom is the distinction not between faith
and reason, but between truth and idolatry. While theology and
philosophy each represent the truth of Christianity, Schopenhauer's
idolatrous concepts of faith, no less than of reason, represent
Christendom.
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