Abstract

Abstract Philosophy uses logic and reason to critically evaluate life's most pressing issues. Christian philosophy (now “CP”) applies logic (providing models of what is possible ) to Christian faith and theology (providing theories of what is actual concerning God and his actions). The most common model in CP is Augustine's faith seeking understanding : philosophy's craft elucidates revealed truths about God, incarnation, miracles, belief in God, and allied topics. Nevertheless, a long debate exists about CP: from Kant's denying knowledge to make room for faith to the Émile Bréhier–Étienne Gilson debate among Catholics in the 1920s–early 1930s (cf. Dulles 2000; McInerny 1993: 259ff.), from the claims of positivism to postmodernism, from secular scientists viewing science and religion as “nonoverlapping magisteria” to naturalistic analytic philosophers claiming that Christian philosophers offer only an antiquated metaphysical picture of the world (realism of some stripe) which Kant already destroyed. Yet CP is possible because it's actual. Many Christian philosophers testify that faith significantly improves their philosophical enterprise.

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