Abstract
The article analyzes the concept of “Christian philosophy” from the perspective of its past and its future. First of all, there is revealed a multiplicity of senses and the meanings attributed to this concept. Their arrangement is one of the purposes of this text. Christian philosophy in the broad sense is a philosophy that permits indirect influences of Christianity; this is an idea created in Christian culture. However, strictly speaking Christian philosophy is a philosophy where we find an affirmative approach to the truth preached by Christianity. It is open to direct Christian inspiration. Twentieth-century revival of interest of religion in philosophy seems to foretell the future optimistically in the broad and narrow sense of Christian philosophy.
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What we find important about philosophy is not that it is Christian, but that it is true
Will philosophy pursued by Christians be Christian philosophy in every case? Can it not be just pure philosophy, which is what the abovequoted Siemianowski would want it to be?26 It appears that a Christian philosopher can philosophise, neutralising positive inspiration, while he must take negative inspiration into consideration, the result being that many contemporary thinkers find Christian philosophy to be selfcontradictory, a kind of “wooden iron,” or a “square circle.”
It is possible for Christians to pursue philosophy in a manner that is closed to positive inspiration, but on the other hand it must be assumed that the Gospel sheds some “metaphysical light” on man’s life and the meaning of life, which is hardly negligible, irrespective of the attitude to these “illuminations.” A different thing is the question of to what extent the experience of the world, life and existence sensu largo is linked
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