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Favourite Christian philosophers

  • 05-04-2008 12:50am
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    raah!
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    Well, here is a thread where we can talk about all our favourite christian philosophers........ I'll go first!

    I like Keith Ward, and Dostoyevsky (although I suppose he's not a philosopher but I like what he has to say with regar to morality and all that). I also like Yan martell's reasons for belief v non-belief


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  • #2
    Galvasean
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    Jesus.


  • #3
    raah!
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    hah! oh yeah, jesus!. Well i was on a different line of thought, but yes certainly jesus


  • #4
    PDN
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    raah! wrote: »
    Well, here is a thread where we can talk about all our favourite christian philosophers........ I'll go first!

    I like Keith Ward, and Dostoyevsky (although I suppose he's not a philosopher but I like what he has to say with regar to morality and all that). I also like Yan martell's reasons for belief v non-belief

    I like Alvin Plantinga's work - particularly when he deals with free will and the problem of evil.

    I would see Dostoyevsky as a philosopher. He certainly used fictional literature as his medium of communication, but he made some very profound points, particularly in The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment.


  • #5
    Galvasean
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    raah! wrote: »
    hah! oh yeah, jesus!. Well i was on a different line of thought, but yes certainly jesus

    He inspired a lot of people.


  • #6
    raah!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭raah!


    Yes of course, I was laughing at my ommision and not at anything else if that is what you are thinking

    Alvin platinga sounds very interesting (I looked him up on wikipedia there :))


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  • #7
    Soul Winner
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    raah! wrote: »
    Well, here is a thread where we can talk about all our favourite christian philosophers........ I'll go first!

    I like Keith Ward, and Dostoyevsky (although I suppose he's not a philosopher but I like what he has to say with regar to morality and all that). I also like Yan martell's reasons for belief v non-belief

    Although some of the following would not have regarded themselves as philosophers in the strictest sense of the word, I would still deem them worthy of inclusion in my list:

    St. Paul the Apostle (Study his Epistle to the Romans)
    Clement of Alexandria
    Origen
    Martin Luther
    John Calvin
    John Wesley
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    Karl Barth
    Paul Tillich
    C.S. Lewis
    G Campbell Morgan
    F.B. Meyer
    Gene Scott
    John Wright Follette


    and of course Jesus :D

    Until today I had not heard of Alvin Plantinga. I look forward to reading some of his work.


  • #8
    Excelsior
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    I have to agree with PDN. There is nothing like a good bit of Alvinization in the evening! But my favourite is Stanley Hauerwas.

    Nicholas Wolsterstorff and David Bentley Hart are two guys I've been reading this year and just adoring. Hart especially can write unbelievably well. I'm currently reading Søren Kierkegaard's Sickness Unto Death but to be honest, I don't understand it. :)

    Of course, the real answer to the question is my wife. :)


  • #9
    Húrin
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    Jesus
    Søren Kierkegaard
    John Stott


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