H. Unuma: Faith and Thought of Modern Japanese Christian Thinkers

On the Entanglement of Universals-Theory and Christian Faith in the Modern Theological Discourse of Karl Barth

The philosophical investigations into universals was entangled with the combination of a certain Christian faith and Ontology, especially in ancient and medieval times. That is, God’s creative activity provided us with the ontological presumption which enabled universals to be predicated, be perceived and be thought about. Times then have changed, and “the modern turn” in Philosophy tends to re...

Christian Faith as a Way of Life

the Holy Father goes out of his way to praise the many positive contributions to human self-understanding made by philosophers who presuppose a split between faith and reason. For more on Fides et Ratio , see my “Fides et Ratio: A ‘Radical’ Vision of Intellectual Inquiry,” pp. 13-31 in Alice Ramos and Marie George, eds., Faith, Scholarship and Culture in the 21st Century (American Maritain Asso...

Dialogues between Faith and Reason: The Death and Return of God in Modern German Thought

Buss, Impact of Faith on Relational Thought 1 THE IMPACT OF FAITH ON RELATIONAL THOUGHT

It is easy to think of possible tensions between one’s faith and academic reality, but I wish to address here a positive relation, namely, the fact that the academy is itself indebted to religious faith. In particular, I want to point to the impact of Jewish and Christian traditions on a phase of thought that began at the end of the nineteenth century. A significant theme of this thinking was t...

Machiavelli and the Foundation of the Modern Political Thought

The present article intends to start introduction to the political thinking of          Machiavelli by passing through some key concepts in his thinking, and by placing his idea in the area of political thinking. Surveying ethics in Machiavelli’s political thinking needs     separate individual ethics from political (civil) one.  And explaining Machiavelli’s remarks about the category of ethics...