Christian Perspectives on the History of Philosophy

Speaker(s): Loren Wilkinson
Date: Winter 2005
Length: 24:02:56
Product ID: RGDL3440S

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Description

The Christian Gospel came into a world of thought, and it continues to be proclaimed, debated, doubted, accepted and rejected in a world of thought. This course is an overview of that world and the relation of the Gospel to it. The central purpose is to explore the major themes in the history of philosophy, in the light of the Christian Gospel. Lectures include:

Introduction
The Pre-Socratic Philosophers
Socrates
Socrates and Plato
Aristotle
Aristotle and Neo-Platonism
Augustine
Early Medieval Philosophy
Early Medieval Philosophy and Aquinas
Aquinas and Franciscan Philosophy
Renaissance Philosophy
Rationalism
Empiricism: John Locke
Empiricism: George Berkley and David Hume
Immanuel Kant
G.W.F. Hegel
Karl Marx
Positivism
Analytic Philosophy
Phenomenology and Existentialism: Kierkegaard and Nietzsche
Heidegger and Deconstruction
Critical Realism
Conclusions

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Loren E. Wilkinson is retired as Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies & Philosophy at Regent College. Previously he served as Associate Professor in the Department of English at Seattle Pacific College and Fellow at the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship. He is editor of Earthkeeping in the Nineties: Stewardship of Creation, and co-wrote Caring for Creation in Your Own Backyard with his wife, Mary Ruth.