Favourite Christian philosophers

raah!

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

Galvasean

Jesus.

raah!

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

PDN

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.

Galvasean

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.

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 )

Soul Winner

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

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

Excelsior

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.

Húrin

Jesus
Søren Kierkegaard
John Stott