Eastern Christian Approaches to Philosophy
With few exceptions, the field of Eastern Christian studies has primarily been concerned with historical-critical analysis, hermeneutics, and sociology. For the most part it has not attempted to bring Eastern Christian philosophy into serious engagement with contemporary thought. This volume seeks t...
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| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Metaphilosophy
- Chapter 1: Ephrem and the Pursuit of Wisdom
- Chapter 2: The Emergence of the Scholastic Attitude towards Philosophy in Greek Patristic Thought
- Part II: Philosophical Theology & Metaphysics
- Chapter 3: What We Can and Cannot Say: An Apophatic Response to Atheism
- Chapter 4: Divine Impassibility in Eastern Patristic Thought: Origen of Alexandria and Gregory Thaumaturgus
- Chapter 5: Gregory of Nyssa on the Individuation of Actions and Events
- Part III: Epistemology & Philosophy of Language
- Chapter 6: Towards an Epistemology of Mystical Experience: Controversies on ‘Perceiving God’ in Late Antique Greek and Syriac Christianity
- Chapter 7: The Mystery of Words: Orthodox Theology and Philosophy of Language
- Part IV: Ecological Philosophy & Bioethics
- Chapter 8: The Human Role in the Cosmos: Potential Contributions to an Ecological Philosophy
- Chapter 9: Byzantine Theology and its Philosophical Insights for Transhumanist and Transgender Understandings of the Body
- Part V: Social & Political Philosophy
- Chapter 10: The Problematic Essence of the Oriental ‘Mother’: Eastern Christian Approaches to Orientalism
- Chapter 11: Theosis and Rights: The Personalist Basis of Individual Rights in Russian Religious Philosophy
- Chapter 12: The Liturgy after the Liturgy: Compassion, Vulnerability, Solidarity, and the Quest for Social Justice