Analytic patristics
The logic of apophaticism, natural theology, and the metaphysics of the Trinity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12190890 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paweł Rojek (0000-0002-2584-0108, Jagiellonian University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 51-84 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in East European Thought (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0925-9392 • E-ISSN: 1573-0948 |
| Publisher | Springer Nature (PUBLISHER • SG) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11212-023-09609-y |
| OpenAlex | W4390880292 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 60 |
Georges Florovsky, in 1936, called for a revival of the teaching of the Church Fathers. At the same time, Fr. Joseph Bocheński formulated the program for the renewal of Thomism by means of formal logic. In this paper, I propose to integrate these two projects. Analytic Patristics aims at expressing and developing patristic thought with the tools of analytic philosophy. The broad program of the logic of religion formulated by Bocheński included semiotics, methodology, and the formal logic of religion. I present here three examples of the integration of analytic philosophy and patristics in these three areas. I discuss first Basil Lourié’s paraconsistent interpretation of Dionysius the Areopagite’s theory of the divine names, then Richard Swinburne’s efforts to revive Orthodox natural theology, and finally Beau Branson’s reconstruction of Gregory of Nyssa’s metaphysics of the Trinity. These examples perfectly illustrate how analytic philosophy can contribute to the development of patristics, and how the tradition of the Church Fathers can inspire contemporary analytic philosophy of religion
Analytic philosophy · Contemporary philosophy · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Metaphysics · Philosophy of language · Political philosophy · Politics · Theology · Thomism · Augustinian Studies and Theology · Karl Barth and Christian Theology · Law · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy
Perceiving Things Divine
Perceiving God
Warranted Christian Belief
The Christian God
Basil of Caesarea on the Semantics of Proper Names
Archaeology of Logic
How Philosophical Theology Became Possible within the Analytic Tradition of Philosophy
The Five Ways
It is impossible not to “trust” Frank… Semyon Frank and George Florovsky
The ineffability of God
The unfinished business of Trinitarian theorizing
Georges Florovsky and the Russian Religious Renaissance
The Vienna Circle and the Lvov-Warsaw School
Ontologism in Semyon Frank
Antinomism in Twentieth-Century Russian Philosophy
The Name-glorifying projects of Alexei Losev and Pavel Florensky
God and Cogito
Florovsky’s logical relativism
Polish Attempts to Modernize Thomism by Logic (Bocheński and Salamucha)
Józef M. Bocheński and the Cracow Circle
Knowledge of God in St Gregory Palamas
The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church. Vladimir Lossky
Gregory of Nyssa on Universals
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |