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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786036803321

Titolo

Philosophy and the Abrahamic religions [[electronic resource] ] : scriptural hermeneutics and epistemology / / edited by Torrance Kirby, Rahim Acar and Bilal Bas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013

ISBN

1-4438-4558-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (479 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KirbyW. J. Torrance

AcarRahim

Bas̀§Bilal <1974->

Disciplina

210.686

227/.06

Soggetti

Religions

Religion - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; PART II; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; PART III; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN; CHAPTER NINETEEN; CHAPTER TWENTY; CHAPTER TWENTY ONE; CHAPTER TWENTY TWO; CHAPTER TWENTY THREE; CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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 w...