The Services of Present-Day Philosophy to Theological Reconstruction
The philosophy of our day has as great variety as religion. One difficulty in our modern theological world is that the church has built theological systems of the Greek or Roman worlds into its formulas. As these philosophies are almost nowhere taught except in theological seminaries, it is a little...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
1915
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The biblical world
Year: 1915, Volume: 46, Issue: 1, Pages: 9-14 |
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| Summary: | The philosophy of our day has as great variety as religion. One difficulty in our modern theological world is that the church has built theological systems of the Greek or Roman worlds into its formulas. As these philosophies are almost nowhere taught except in theological seminaries, it is a little difficult for university-trained men to appreciate the truth which our inherited theology expresses. This is very unfortunate. While religion is for us all, theology must be the peculiar property of men who have been taught to think. Can our modern philosophy do for our day what Aristotle and Plato, the Stoic and the Alexandrine, did for their day? |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The biblical world
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/475316 |