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Christian Philosophy and Free Will (Hardcover)
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Following an ardent debate in the 1930s on the question over
whether something like a "Christian philosophy" exists, as Etienne
Gilson, Jacques Maritain, and others held, the term was used by
many thinkers and rejected by many others, not only by Heidegger
who called it a contradiction in terms, an "iron wood," but also by
Thomists who wanted to see philosophy and Christian faith strictly
separated. Seifert analyses five understandings of the term
"Christian philosophy" which have never been expounded with such
clarity and which he rejects for different, partly for opposite,
reasons. He presents these senses of Christian philosophy, and his
reasons for rejecting them, in clear, straight-forward language. He
presents for the first time a series of eleven wholly different and
thoroughly positive and fruitful ways of understanding the (rather
misleading) term "Christian philosophy." Identifying and
distinguishing these legitimate ways to speak of "Christian
philosophy" shed light on the manifold fruitful relations between
reason and faith. In a second part of the book, Seifert gives an
example of Christian philosophy in the sense of a philosophy of
religion that shows the absolute presupposedness and necessity of
the existence of human, divine, and angelic free will to make any
sense of divine revelation and of Christian (but also of Muslim and
Jewish) religion. In a third part, he presents a penetrating
analysis of seven indubitable evidences that demonstrate the nature
and real existence of human free will (in a so-called "libertarian"
sense that rejects the thesis of the compatibility between free
will and determinism). The book is introduced by the eminent
Thomist philosopher, John Finnis.
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