VIII Philosophy
History of Western Philosophy
W. Durrant, The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time (Simon & Schuster, 2002) 2
---- The Story of Philosophy (Pocket Books, 1991) 2
A. Kenney, A New History of Western Philosophy (Oxford University Press, rpt., 2012) 2
C. Hartshorne, Creativity in American Philosophy (SUNY, 1984) 3
---- Insights and Oversights of Great Thinkers (State University of New York Press, 1983) 3
B. Russell, A History of Western Philosophy ( New York: Simon and Schuster, n.d.) 2
P. Stokes, Philosophy:100 Essential Ideas That Have Shaped Our World (Arcturus, 2012) 2
P. Wiener, ed. Dictionary of the History of Ideas, 4 Vols. (Scribner's Sons, 1973) 3
Christian Worldview
V Theology: The Nature of Theology/ Methodology
V Theology: The Nature of Revelation/ Biblical Authority
VIII Philosophy: Epistemology/Post-Modernism
A. F. Holmes, Contours of a Christian Worldview (Eerdmans, 1983) 2
C. Kraft, Christianity and Culture (Oribis, 1979) 2
K. Yandel, Christianity and Philosophy (InterVarsity Press, 1984) 2
Epistemology/ Post-Modernism
V Theology: The Nature of Theology/ Methodology
V Theology: The Nature of Revelation/ Biblical Authority
VIII Philosophy: Christian Worldview
R. J. Berstein, Beyond Objectivism and Relativism (University of Pennsylvania, 1988) 3
C. David, The Evidential Force of Religious Experience (Oxford University Press, 1989) 2
U. Eco, T. Sebok, The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce (Indiana University Press, 1988) 3
C. S. Evans, Subjectivity and Religious Belief (Christian University Press, 1976) 2
P. van Inwagen, God, Knowledge, and Mystery (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995) 3
C. S. Peirce, Chance, Love, and Logic (University of Nebraska Press, 1998) 3
A. Plantinga, Warranted Christian Belief (Oxford University Press, 1993) 3
K. Popper, Objective Knowledge (Oxford University Press, 1972) 3
W. V. Quine. J. S. Ullian, The Web of Belief (Random House, 2nd ed., 1978) 2
R. Trigg Reason and Commitment (Cambridge University Press, 1973) 2
D. Wolfe, Epistemology: The Justification of Belief (InterVarsity, 1982) 2
W. J. Wood, Epistemology: Becoming Intellectually Virtuous (IVP Academic, 1998) 2
K. E. Yandell, Christianity and Philosophy (InterVarsity Press, 1984) 2
---- The Epistemology of Religious Experience (Cambridge University Press, 1994) 3
Ethics
V Theology: Ethics
VII Christian Living: Social Justice
VII Christian Living: Reconciliation
VII Christian Living: Simplicity
S. M. Duncan, A Primer of Modern Virtue Ethics (University Press of America, 1995) 2
A. MacIntyre, After Virtue (University of Notre Dame Press, 2nd ed., 1984) 3
L. Quinn, Divine Commands and Moral Requirements (Oxford University Press, 1978) 3
D. Statman, ed. Virtue Ethics (Georgetown University Press, 1997) 1 1
S Wells, B. Quash, Introducing Christian Ethics (Wiley, 2010) 2
Defenses of Libertarian Free Will/Indeterminism
III New Testament: Arminian Interpretations of Romans 9
V Theology: Open View of the Future (Open Theism)
V Theology: Providence/Predestination/Free Will
V Theology: Warfare Worldview
VI Apologetics: Problem of Evil
D. J. Barthalomew, God of Chance (London: SCM Press, 1984) 2
D. Basinger, The Case For Freewill Theism: A Philosophical Assessment (InterVarsity, 1996) 2
B. Berofsky, ed. Free Will and Determinism (Harper & Row, 1966) 2
G. Boyd, Trinity and Process (Lang, 1992) 3
M. Brand and D. Walton, eds., Action Theory (D. Reidel, 1976) 3
C. A. Campbell, In Defense of Free Will (Allen & Unwin, 1967) 3
I. Dilman, Free Will (Routledge, 1999) 3
E. Eells, Probabilistic Causality (Cambridge University Press, 1991) 3
A. Goldman, A Theory of Human Action (Prentice Hall, 1970) 3
C. Hartshorne, Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method (University Press of America, rpt., 1983) 3
S. Hook, ed. Determinism and Freedom in the Age of Modern Science (Collier-Macmillan, 1958) 2
P. van Inwagen, An Essay on Free Will (Oxford University Press, 1983) 3
I. Janis and L. Mann, Decision Making (Free Press, 1977) 3
R. Kane, The Significance of Freedom (Oxford University Press, 1996) 3
K. Lehrer, ed., Freedom and Determinism (Random House, 1966) 2
J. R. Lucas, The Freedom of the Will (Clarendon, 1970) 3
---- The Future: an Essay on God, Temporality, and Truth (Bail Blackwell, 1989) 3
R. Nozick, Philosophical Explanations (Harvard University Press, 1981) 3
C. S. Peirce, Chance, Love, and Logic (University of Nebraska Press, 1998) 3
K. Popper, The Open Universe: An Argument for Indeterminism (London: Hutchinson, 1982) 3
-----Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics (London: Hutchinson, 1982) 3
R. Taylor, Action and Purpose (Prentice-Hall, 1966) 3
---- On Action (Cambridge University Press, 1990) 3
M. Tooley, Causation: A Reality Approach (Clarendon Press, 1987) 3
J. Trusted, Free Will and Responsibility (Oxford, 1984) 2
D. Wallace, Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will (Columbia University Press, 2011) 3
R. Worsley, Human Freedom and the Logic of Evil (St. Martin's Press, 1996) 2
Metaphysics
VIII Philosophy: Christian Worldview
VIII Philosophy: Phenomenology
VIII Philosophy: Process Philosophy/Theology
J. Buchler, Metaphysics of Natural Complexes (SUNY, 2nd ed. 1990 [1966]) 3
U. Eco, T. Sebok, The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce (Indiana University Press, 1988) 3
C. Hartshorne, Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method (University Press of America, rpt., 1983) 3
H. Oliver, A Relational Metaphysics (Martinus Nijhoff, n.d.) 3
S. D. Ross, Philosophical Mysteries (SUNY, 1981) 3
---- Transition to an Ordinal Metaphysics (SUNY, 1980) 3
---- Perspective in Whitehead's Metaphysics (SUNY, 1983) 3
A. N. Whitehead, Process and Reality (Free Press, rpt. 1978 [1929]) 4
Phenomenology
M. Heidegger, Being and Time (Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2008) 3
M. Maurice-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge, 2013 [1942]) 4
---- The Primacy of Perception (Northwestern University Press, 1964) 3
--- The Visible and the Invisible (Northwestern University Press, 1968) 4
D. Moran, Edmund Husserl: Founder of Phenomenology (Polity Press, 2005) 3
R. Solokowski, Introduction to Phenomenology (Cambridge University Press, 1999) 3
Process Philosophy/Theology
V Theology: Nature and Attributes of God
V Theology: Doctrine of Creation
VIII Philosophy: Metaphysics
D. Basinger, Divine Power in Process Theism (SUNY, 1988) 2
G. Boyd, Trinity and Process (Lang, 1992) 3
S. G. Davaney, Divine Power: A Study of Karl Barth and Charles Hartshorne (Fortress, 1986) 2
S. T. Franklin, Speaking From the Depths (Eerdmans, 1990) 3
C. Gunton, Becoming and Being (Oxford University Press, rpt. 1980 [1978]) 3
C. Hartshorne, Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method (University Press of America, rpt., 1983) 3
---- The Divine Relativity (Yale University Press, rpt. 2012) 3
---- Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes (SUNY, 1984) 2
---- C. Peden, Whitehead's View of Reality (Pilgrim, rev. ed., 1981) 2
R. H. Nash, ed., Process Theology (Baker, 1987) 2
R. Neville, Creativity and God: A Challenge to Process Theology (SUNY, rpt..1995 [1980]) 3
W. Reese, C. Hartshorne, Philosophers Speak of God (Humanity Books, 2nd ed., 2000) 2
A. N. Whitehead, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (New York: Free Press, rev. ed. 1978 [1929] ) 4
Primary Sources: Hellenistic Philosophy And the Development of Early Christian Theology
Note: This is a list of primary sources that Greg believes are most relevant to understanding how Hellenistic philosophy influenced Christian thinking on divine perfection and provide.
IV Church History: Hellenistic Philosophical Influence on Early Christian Theology
V Theology: Critiques of Classical Theism
Alcinous, The Handbook of Platonism (Clarendon, 1993) 3
Alexander of Aphrodisias, On Fate, tran., ed., comm., R. W. Sharples (Duckworth, 1983). 3
---- Quaestiones 1.1-2.15, tran., ed., comm., R. W. Sharples (Cornell University Press, 1992). 3
J. Barnes, ed. The Complete Works of Aristotle, 2 Vols (Princeton University Press, 1984) 3
---- The Presocratic Philosophers ( Routledge, rpt., 1982 [1979]) 3
Cicero, The Nature of the Gods (Oxford University Press, 1998) 2
A. H. Coxon, ed., trans. The Fragments of Parmenides: A Critical Text (Van Gorcum, 1986) 3
K. Guthrie, trans. The Neoplatonic Writings of Numenius (Selene Books, 1987 [1917]) 3
E. Heitsch. Parmenides : Die Fragmente (Artemis & Winkle, 3d ed., 1995 [1974]). 3
H. D. P. Lee. Zeno of Elea: A Text, with Translation and Notes (Luzac, 1936) 3
A. A. Long, D. N. Sedley, The Hellenistic Philosophers, 2 Vols (Cambridge University Press, 1987) 3
Maximus of Tyre, The Philosophical Orations, trans., M. B. Trapp, (Clarendon, 1997) 3
Plato: Complete Works, ed. John Cooper (Cambridge University Press, 1997) 3
Plotinus, The Enneads , tran. S. MacKenna (Larson Publications, 1992) 3
G. Seel, ed, Ammonius and the Seabattle, Texts, Commentary, and Essays (Walter de Gruyter, 2001) 3
R. Sorabji, Aristotle Transformed: The Ancient Commentators and Their Influence (Cornell, 1993) 4
W. Tefler, ed. Cyril of Jerusalem and Nemesius of Emesa (SCM, 1955) 3
C.D. Yonge, trans. The Works of Philo (Hendrickson, 1993) 3
Secondary Sources: Hellenistic Philosophy And the Development of Early Christian Theology
Note: This is a list of secondary works that Greg feels are most helpful in discussing the influence that Hellenistic philosophy exercised on early Christian thinkers, culminating in St. Augustine.
IV Church History: Hellenistic Philosophical Influence on Early Christian Theology
V Theology: Critiques of Classical Theism
VIII Philosophy: Primary Sources: Hellenistic Philosophy and the Development of Early Christian Theology
Algra, Concepts of Space in Greek Thought (Brill, 1995) 4
R. E. Allen, ed., Studies in Plato's Metaphysics (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965) 3
T. Allin, The Augustinian Revolution in Theology (London: Clark & Co. 1911) 2
D. Amand, Fatalisme et liberté dan l'antiquité grecque (Bibliothèque de l' Université, 1945) 3
A. H. Armstrong, ed. Classical Mediterranean Spirituality (New York, 1986) 3
P. Aubenque, ed., Etudes sur Parmenides. 2 vols (Vrin, 1987) 3
D. E. Aune, Prophecy in Early Christianity and the Ancient Mediterranean World (Eerdmans, 1983) 3
S. Austin, Parmenides: Being, Bounds, and Logic (Yale University Press, 1986) 3
C. P. Bammel, Christian Faith and Greek Philosophy in Late Antiquity (Brill, 1993) 3
J. Barnes, The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle (Cambridge University Press, 1995) 3
P. Brown, Religion and Society in the Age of Saint Augustine (Harper & Row, 1972) 2
J. F. Callahan, Saint Augustine and the Greek Philosophers (Villanova University Press, 1967) 3
V. Caston, D. W. Graham, eds., Presocratic Philosophy (Ashgate, 2002) 3
H. Chadwick, Early Christian Thought and the Classical Tradition (Oxford University Press, 1985) 3
M. Colish, The Stoic Tradition From Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages (Brill, 1985) 3
L. Cooper, ed., The Greek Genius and It's Influence (Cornell University Press, 1952) 3
P. Curd, The Legacy of Parmenides (Parmenides Publishing, rpt. 2004. [1998]) 3
A.Dihle, The Theory of Will in Classical Antiquity (Berkeley, 1982) 3
J. Dillion, The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347-274) (Clarendon Press, 2003) 3
----- The Middle Platonists (Cornell University Press, 1977) 3
I. Dilman, Free Will: An Historical and Philosophical Introduction (Routledge, 1999) 3
E. R. Dodds, ed. Ancient Concepts of Progress (Oxford University Press, 1973) 3
----.The Greeks and the Irrational (University of California Press; 4th ed., 1964) 3
E. Ferguson, Background to Early Christianity (Eerdmans, 2002) 2
M. L. Gill, Pierre Pellegrin, eds., A Companion to Ancient Philosophy (Blackwell, 2006) 3
S. Gersh, Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism, 2 Vols (University of Notre Dame, 1986) 3
I. Gobry. La cosmologie des Ioniens (L'Harmattan, 2000) 3
A. Graeser, Plotinus and the Stoics (Brill, 1972) 3
R. Grant, Gods and the One God (Westminster, 1986) 2
W. C. Greene, Moira: Fate, Good, and Evil in Greek Thought (Harper & Row, 1944) 3
W. K. C. Guthrie. A History of Greek Philosophy. 6 Vols (Cambridge University Press, 1962-1981) 3
R. K. Hack, God in Greek Philosophy to the Time of Socrates (Kessinger, rpt., 2008 [1931])
R. Hood, Must God Remain Greek? (Fortress, 1990) 3
S. I. Johnston, Ancient Greek Divination (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) 3
W.Jaeger. The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers (Oxford University Press, 1947) 3
W. T. Jones, The Classical Mind (Harcourt Brace Javanovich, Inc, 2nd ed., 1970) 2
M. Joyal, ed., Studies in Plato and the Platonic Tradition (Ashgate, 2002) 3
R. Kraut, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Plato (Cambridge University Press, 1992) 3
C. H. Kahn. Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology (Columbia University Press, 1960) 3
J. C. McLelland. God the Anonymous (The Philadelphia Patristic Foundation, Inc., 1976) 3
P. Merlan, From Platonism to Neoplatonism (Springer, rpt. 1975) 3
P. Morewedge, ed., Philosophies of Existence (Fordham University Press, 1982) 3
Raoul Mortley, From Word to Silence, 2 Vols (Bonn, 1986) 4
A. P. D. Mourelatos., ed., The Pre-Socratics (Princeton University Press, 1974) 3
R. Patterson, Image and Reality in Plato's Metaphysics (Hackett, 1985) 3
J. Pelikan, Christianity and Classical Culture (Yale University Press, 1993) 3
J. M. Rist Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized (Cambridge University Press, 1994) 3
---- Plotinus (Cambridge University Press, 1967) 3
----The Stoics (University of California Press, 1978) 3
G. Seel, Stoics, Epicureans, and Skeptics (Routledge, 1996) 3
R. W. Sharples, Stoics, Epicureans, and Skeptics (Routledge, 1996) 2
J. Shiel, Greek Thought and the Rise of Christianity (New York: Barnes and Noble, Inc., 1968) 3
C. Stead, Doctrine and Philosophy in Early Christianity (Ashgate, 2000) 3
---- Philosophy in Christian Antiquity (Cambridge University Press, rpt 1998) 3
---- Substance and Illusion in the Christian Fathers (Variorum Reprints, 1985) 3
G. Striker, Rationality in Greek Thought (Clarendon Press, 1996) 3
M. C. Stokes. One and Many in Presocratic Philosophy (Center for Hellenic Studies,1971) 3
L. Sweeney, S. J. Divine Infinity in Greek and Medieval Thought (Lang, 1992) 3
---- Infinity in the Presocratics (Martinus Nijhoff, 1972) 3
H. B. Timothy, The Early Christian Apologists and Greek Philosophy (Van Gorcum, 1973) 3
G. Vesey, ed. The Philosophy in Christianity (Cambridge University Press, 1989) 3
G.Watson, Greek Philosophy and the Christian Notion of God (Columbia, 1996) 3
N. White, Plato on Knowledge and Reality (Hewett Publishing Company, 1976) 3
P. Wiener, ed. Dictionary of the History of Ideas, 4 Vols (Scribner's Sons, 1973) 2
D. Winston, Of Scholars, Savants and Their Texts (Lang, 1989) 3
Ancient Hellenistic Philosophy and Jewish Thought
J. S. Collins, Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age (Westminster John Knox, 1997) 3
C. Fritsch, The Anti-Anthropomorphisms of the Greek Pentateuch (Princeton University Press, 1943) 2
A. Laato, J. C. de Moor, eds., Theodicy in the World of the Bible (Brill, 2003) 3
---- Of Scholars, Savants and Their Texts (Lang, 1989) 3
The Nature of Time/ the Future
V. Theology: Open View of the Future (Open Theism)
V Theology: Providence/Predestination/Free Will
VIII Philosophy: Defenses of Libertarian Free Will/Indeterminism
IX Contemporary Science, Free Will and Time: The Nature of Time/ the Future/ Free Will
P. Brockelman, Time and Self: Phenomenological Explorations (Scholars Press, 1985) 3
P. Covey, R. Highfield, The Arrow of Time (New York: BasicBooks, 1990) 3
W. L. Craig, Time and Eternity (Crossway, 2001) 3
R. Gale, The Language of Time (Humanities Press, 1968) 3
D. Ray Griffin, ed., Physics and the Ultimate Significance of Time (SUNY, 1986) 3
C. Hartshorne, Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method (University Press of America, rpt., 1983) 4
P. Horwich, Asymmetries in Time (MIT Press, 1989) 3
G. Lakoff, M. Johnson, Philosophy in the Flesh (Basic Books, 1999) 3
J. R. Lucas, The Future: an Essay on God, Temporality, and Truth (Bail Blackwell, 1989) 3
B. Ludlow, Semantics, Tense, and Time (MIT Press, 1999) 4
D. H. Mellor, Real Time (Oxford University Press, 1981) 3
H. Price, Time's Arrow and Archimedes Point (Oxford University Press, 1996) 3
Q. Smith, Language and Time (Oxford University Press, 1993) 3
R. Sorabji, Time, Creation, and the Continuum (Cornell University Press, 1983) 4
D. Wallace, Fate, Time, and Language (Columbia University Press, 2011) 3
Contents
History of Western Philosophy
Christian Worldview
Epistemology/ Post-Modernism
Ethics
Defenses of Libertarian Free Will/Indeterminism
Metaphysics
Phenomenology
Process Philosophy/Theology
Primary Sources: Hellenistic Philosophy And the Development of Early Christian Theology
Secondary Sources: Hellenistic Philosophy and the Development of Early Christian Theology
Ancient Hellenistic Philosophy and Jewish Thought
The Nature of Time/ the Future
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