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Philosophy and the Abrahamic Religions - Scriptural Hermeneutics and Epistemology (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Philosophy and the Abrahamic Religions - Scriptural Hermeneutics and Epistemology (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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From Greco-Roman Antiquity through to the European Enlightenment,
philosophy and religious thought were inseparably interwoven. This
was equally the case for the popular natural or 'pagan' religions
of the ancient world as it was for the three pre-eminent 'religions
of the book', namely Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The lengthy
and involved encounter of the Greek philosophical tradition - and
especially of the Platonic, Aristotelian, and Neoplatonic strands
of that tradition - initially with the Hellenistic cults and
subsequently with the three Abrahamic religions, played a critical
role in shaping the basic contours of Western intellectual history
from Plato to Philo of Alexandria, Plotinus, Porphyry, Augustine,
and Proclus; from Aristotle to al-Farabi, Avicenna, al-Gazali,
Aquinas and the medieval scholastics, and eventually to Meister
Eckhart and Nicholas Cusanus and such modern philosophers and
theologians as Richard Hooker, the Cambridge Platonists, Jacob
Boehme, and G. W. F. Hegel to name but a few. The aim of the
twenty-four essays comprising this volume is to explore the
intellectual worlds of the three Abrahamic religious traditions,
their respective approaches to scriptural hermeneutics, and their
interaction over many centuries on the common ground of the
inheritance of classical Greek philosophy. The shared goal of the
contributors is to demonstrate the extent to which the three
Abrahamic religions have created similar shared patterns of thought
in dealing with crucial religious concepts such as the divine,
creation, providence, laws both natural and revealed, such problems
as the origin of evil and the possibility of salvation, as well as
defining hermeneutics, that is to say the manner of interpreting
their sacred writings.
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