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Zusatztext Idealistic metaphysics is the oxygen of speculative theology. Any faith seeking reason must wrestle with the philosophical significance of those idealistic arguments that have shaped Christian theology since its inception in the school of Alexandria. This volume focuses on two of the greatest modern proponents of an idealistic metaphysics within the Christian tradition: Edwards and Berkeley. The essays here offer a fascinating and rich foray into some of the key questions of philosophical theology. Idealism may not be fashionable but its persisting power is admirably demonstrated in this fine collection. Informationen zum Autor Joshua R. Farris is Assistant Professor of Theology at Houston Baptist University, Smith College of Liberal Arts and the Academy. He is the chief editor (with Charles Taliaferro) for Ashgate Research Companion to Theological Anthropology (2015). S. Mark Hamilton is a PhD candidate University of Bristol, UK. Supervised by Dr. Oliver D. Crisp, Mark is writing his doctoral thesis on the subject, Jonathan Edwards on Christ and Salvation. He is co-editor of New England Dogmatics: A Systematic Collection of Questions and Answers in Divinity (2014). James S. Spiegel is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Taylor University in Indiana, USA. He has published scholarly articles in such journals as Faith and Philosophy, Sophia, Theory and Research in Education , and Philosophia Christi . His books include The Love of Wisdom (2010), Faith, Film, and Philosophy (2007), Hypocrisy: Moral Fraud and Other Vices (1999), and the award-winning How to be Good in a World Gone Bad (2004). Vorwort Idealism and Christian Theology considers the viability of both the historic and contemporary Idealist philosophical tradition for contemporary theological construction. Zusammenfassung In the recent history of philosophy few works have appeared which favorably portray Idealism as a plausible philosophical view of the world. Considerably less has been written about Idealism as a viable framework for doing theology. While the most recent and significant works on Idealism, composed by the late John Foster ( Case for Idealism and A World for Us: The Case for Phenomenological Idealism ), have put this theory back on the philosophical map, no such attempt has been made to re-introduce Idealism to contemporary Christian theology. Idealism and Christian Theology is such a work, retrieving ideas and arguments from its most significant modern exponents (especially George Berkeley and Jonathan Edwards) in order to assess its value for present and future theological construction. As a piece of constructive philosophical-theology itself, this volume considers the explanatory power an Idealist ontology has for contemporary Christian theology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction: Idealism and Christian Theology Joshua R. Farris (University of Bristol, UK) and S. Mark Hamilton (Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 1. The Theological Orthodoxy of Berkeley’s Immaterialism James S. Spiegel (Taylor University, USA) 2. Berkeley, Edwards, Idealism and the Knowledge of God William J. Wainwright (University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, USA) 3. Idealistic Panentheism: Reflections on Jonathan Edwards’s Account of the God-World Relation Jordan Wessling (University of Notre Dame, USA) 4. Berkeley, Realism, Idealism and Creation Keith Yandell (University of Wisconsin—Madison, USA) 5. Edwardsian Idealism, Imago Dei, and Contemporary Theology Joshua R. Farris (University of Bristol, UK) 6. On the Corruption of the Body: A Theological Argument for Metaphysical Idealism S. Mark Hamilton (Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 7. Idealism and the Resurrection Mark Cort...
