this investigation, is consideration in relation between faith and moral in soren kierkegaard`s point of view, as two undeniable fact of mankind living reality that wich kierkegaard, christian fideist philosopher, describe from christian faith; she scrutinize`s this relation with study bible and some of chiristianity teachings as incarnation and expiate and the three persons. on the other hand,...

This paper focuses on the comparison between Augustine’s and Luther’s understanding of bondage will. As a philosopher will, Augustine establishes independence will in his earlier work. In debate with Julian Eclanum that comes from later period, emphasizes grace original sin. The salvation freedom humans rely Holy Spirit. Erasmus, Luther introduced conception necessity However, both thinkers hav...

Most political theorists are familiar with Augustine's story of Alexander asking a captured pirate where he got the right to steal from other ships, and receiving the answer that he got it from the same place Alexander got the right to conquer other countries. Most will recognize Augustine's famous summation of the point of the story: "Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminal...

Referring to Christian Wolff’s letters to the Count of Manteuffel, his maecenas, I want to show how the philosopher Wolff had to present himself (dependant on the expectations of his addressee) as a specific social or intellectual type in order to propagate reliably what he and his adherents called the ‘truth’ of his philosophical worldview.1 Based on my analysis of Wolff’s correspondence with ...

Abstract I argue that the epistemology underlying Cornelius Van Til’s presuppositional apologetic methodology is quasi-fideist. According to this view, rationality of religious belief dependent on absolutely certain ungrounded grounds, called hinges . further quasi-fideist apologetics explains why method neither fideist nor problematically circular: are rational in sense they partly constitutiv...

To speak this evening on the phenomenology of John Paul II – this is my appointed task, graciously assigned to me by Sister Judith Kathryn when she established this Edith Stein lecture series. While I am grateful for the invitation to lecture at Immaculata University, we have a slight problem! I am a theologian, not a philosopher, and the late pope himself once wrote, “A Christian thinker, and ...