How Christianity influenced education.

1. Prepared by Il Yung V. Han II – 8 BSSE

2. • Life and teachings
• Gospels
• No records of any
writing
• No systematic
theology or
philosophy
• New Testament
Jesus
Origins of Christian
Philosophy
St.
Paul
• Saul of Tarsus
• Persecuted
Early Christians
• Epistles/Letters
- doctrine
- theology
• Book of Acts

3. Hellenism
Hellenistic Christian
Philosophy

4. St. Irenaeus
• Unity of God
• Against
Gnosticism
• Original sin is
latent to
humanity
• Christ is a
teacher
Hellenistic Christian
Philosophy
Tertullian
• Philosopher
• Father of the
western church
• Traducianism
• Against
Marcionism
• Montanism
Origen
• Integrated
Platonism
• Logos
• Two churches
- One ideal
- One real
• God
- perfect
- ideal
Augustine of
Hippo
• Classical
Chrisitian
Philosophy
• Greek
- Plato
- Neoplatonism
- Stoicism
• Altered for
Christian
teaching

5. Medieval Christian
Philosophy
John Duns
Scotus
• Subtle doctor
• Professor at University
of Paris
Anselm of
Canterbury
• Ontological Argument
of God’s existence
• Reintroduced Aristotle
in the West
• Arabic translations
St. Thomas of
Aquinas
• Professor at
University of Paris
• Introduced
Aristotelian
Philosophy
• Contemporary of St.
Bonaventure

6. Modern and Contemporary
Christian Philosophy
Karl Barth
• German
survivor
• Wrote massive
Church
Dogmatics
• Division
between
human though
and divine
reality
• Dogmatician of
the church and
Preacher
John D. Caputo
• American
Catholic
Deconstructionis
t and theologian
G.K. Cheterton
• British author
• Christian
thought in
fiction, non-
fiction, poems,
• Seeking truth
• Resistance to
Eugenics and
Distributivism
Etienne Gilson
• The Spirit of
the Medieval
Philosophy
• The Spirit of
Thomism
• Existential
Thomism

7. Modern and Contemporary
Christian Philosophy
Herman
Dooyerweerd
• A New Critique
of Theoretical
Thought
C.S Lewis
• Literary critic
• Mythographer
• Apologist for the
Christian faith
St. John Paul II
• Fides at Ratio
Josef Pieper
• German Roman
Catholic
Philosopher
• Plato
• St. Thomas
Aquinas

8. Modern and Contemporary
Christian Philosophy
Alvin Plantinga
• Notre Dame
University
• Reformed
Epistemology
• Synthesizes
Analytical
Philosophy and
Christian
philosophical
concerns
Egbert Schuurman
• Leading
philosopher of
technology
• Espouses
Christian
philosophical
approach
Paul Tillich
• Phenomenology
of the holy
• Religion is the
Ultimate Concern

9. Modern and Contemporary
Christian Philosophy
D.H. Th. Vollenhover
• Calvinism and the Reformation of Philosophy
• Philosophy of the Law-Idea
• Association of Calvinist Philosophy / Association for
Reformation Philosophy
• Best describes as “modern” or “post-modern”
Despite division and different sects., most agrees on:
• God as creator of all things
• Jesus is the Messiah, Son of God
• Holy Trinity
• Human as a sinner
• Jesus came to redeem mankind
• Our soul is immortal
• Old and New Testament as guides to ideal Christian life
• Baptism is necessary
• Afterlife

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philosophy-with-related-tags-and-terms.html
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• https://philosophytheology.wordpress.com/2013/07/20/the-problem-of-religion
-without-religion/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton
• maverickphilosopher.typepad.com
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis
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• http://www.reasonablefaith.org/an-interview-with-alvin-plantinga
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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._H._Th._Vollenhoven
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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irenaeus
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertullian
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Prepared by Il Yung V. Han II – 8 BSSE