ebook img

Eastern Christian Approaches to Philosophy PDF

335 Pages·2022·2.761 MB·English
Save to my drive
Quick download
Download
Most books are stored in the elastic cloud where traffic is expensive. For this reason, we have a limit on daily download.

Preview Eastern Christian Approaches to Philosophy

Eastern Christian Approaches to Philosophy Edited by James Siemens · Joshua Matthan Brown Eastern Christian Approaches to Philosophy James Siemens • Joshua Matthan Brown Editors Eastern Christian Approaches to Philosophy Editors James Siemens Joshua Matthan Brown School of History, Archaeology, and Department of Philosophy Religion Messiah University Cardiff University Mechanicsburg, PA, USA Cardiff, UK ISBN 978-3-031-10761-0 ISBN 978-3-031-10762-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10762-7 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: funkyfood London - Paul Williams / Alamy Stock Photo This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland A cknowledgements We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Amy Invernizzi at Palgrave Macmillan for believing in this project, and for showing great patience with us as we worked to overcome significant obstacles and set- backs. Additionally, we deeply appreciate the helpful recommendations and advice we received from our esteemed colleagues Yujin Nagasawa, Augustine Cassidy, Elizabeth Theokritoff, and Brandon Gallaher, as well as the insightful input we received from several anonymous reviewers. Furthermore, we would like to express our gratitude to the exceptional philosophers who laboured day and night to produce the contents of this book. We are truly honoured to have partnered with such fantastic and talented people. Sadly, due to the complications of a worldwide pandemic (and, in one case, an intense battle with cancer) several of our original contributors were unable to meet the submission deadline. It would be remiss of us, therefore, if we did not offer a special thanks to Clemena Antonova, Nathan Placencia, Tyler Dalton McNabb, and Michael DeVito for swooping in at the last minute and producing superb contributions in a very short amount of time. Last but not least, we would like to thank our longsuffering and very large families (seriously, we have like fourteen chil- dren between us!) for supporting us as we worked on this project. We love you guys with all of our hearts. v c ontents 1 Introduction 1 Joshua Matthan Brown and James Siemens Part I M etaphilosophy 13 2 St Ephrem and the Pursuit of Wisdom 15 Andrew Hayes 3 The Emergence of the Scholastic Attitude Towards Philosophy in Greek Patristic Thought 39 Anna Zhyrkova Part II Philosophical Theology and Metaphysics 65 4 What We Can and Cannot Say: An Apophatic Response to Atheism 67 Joshua Matthan Brown 5 Divine Impassibility in Eastern Patristic Thought: Origen of Alexandria and Gregory Thaumaturgus 95 James Loxley Compton vii viii CoNTENTS 6 Gregory of Nyssa on the Individuation of Actions and Events 123 Beau Branson Part III Epistemology and Philosophy of Language 149 7 Warranted Eastern Christian Belief: Extending Plantinga’s Extended AC Model 151 Tyler Dalton McNabb and Michael DeVito 8 The Mystery of Words: Orthodox Theology and Philosophy of Language 171 Christoph Schneider Part IV Ecological Philosophy and Bioethics 197 9 Agency and Responsibility: Ecologically Inflected Insights from the Syriac Tradition 199 Christina M. Gschwandtner 10 Eastern Roman Theology and Its Philosophical Insights for Transhumanist and Transgender Understandings of the Body 227 E. Brown Dewhurst Part V Social and Political Philosophy 257 11 Christian Philosophy as a Philosophy of Crisis: Re-reading Florensky in the Twenty-First Century 259 Clemena Antonova CoNTENTS ix 12 Race in the Afterlife: An Eastern Christian Approach 281 Nathan Placencia 13 Theosis and Human Rights: Two Orthodox Approaches 303 Nathaniel Wood Index 327 n c otes on ontributors Clemena Antonova read art history at the universities of Edinburgh and oxford. She works on topics relating to the art of the icon, Russian cri- tiques of the image with a focus on Pavel Florensky (1882-1937), and the role of religion in modernity. She has published two books—Space, Time, and Presence in the Icon: Seeing the World with the Eyes of God (Ashgate, 2010) and Visual Thought in Russian Religious Philosophy: Pavel Florensky’s Theory of the Icon (Routledge, 2020). Her articles have come out in Sobornost, Cithara, Leonardo, etc. Recently, Clemena guest-curated the exhibition ‘Icons for our Time: orthodox Art from around the World’ at the Museum of Russian Icons, USA (14 october 2021-3 April 2022). At present, she is the Research Director of the Eurasia in Global Dialogue Programme at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Austria. Beau Branson is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brescia University in owensboro, Kentucky. He completed his PhD at the University of Notre Dame under Richard Cross with a dissertation focus- ing on the logic and metaphysics involved in St Gregory of Nyssa’s defence of the doctrine of the Trinity. His research continues to be centred on the philosophy of the early Church Fathers, lying at the intersection of ancient philosophy, patristic theology, and contemporary metaphysics. By bring- ing the rigor of contemporary logic and analytic metaphysics to bear on philosophical issues in patristics scholarship, he hopes to show how both analytic philosophy of religion and historical theology can benefit from a deeper engagement with one another. For more information on his xi xii NoTES oN CoNTRIBUToRS research, including links to papers and videos, visit his website at beau- branson.com. Joshua Matthan Brown recently obtained his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Birmingham (UK). His research interests include the eutaxiological argument for God’s existence, the coherence of apo- phatic theism, the epistemology of brute facts, and bringing Eastern Christian thinkers into conversation with contemporary philosophy. Currently, he is an adjunct lecturer in philosophy at Messiah University. Prior to this, he was an academic fellow at the Centre for Applied Theology and a research assistant for the Pantheism & Panentheism Project. He has published in such journals as the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Religious Studies, and the International Journal of Philosophy and Theology. E. Brown Dewhurst is a post-doctoral researcher at Ludwig-M aximilians Universität München, where they are working on a project entitled ‘The Absence of Sex and Gender in Early Byzantine Theology’. The project sets out to revisit the theology of agenderlessness and consider its impact on expressions of gender in early Christian monasticism. It also considers the importance of these findings as a contribution toward the study of LGBTQA+ history. She completed her doctorate at Durham University (UK) with the thesis Revolution in the Microcosm: Love and Virtue in the Cosmological Ethics of St Maximus the Confessor. Their primary area of interest is Greek Patristics and its relevance for contemporary eth- ics. She specialises in Maximus the Confessor and Gregory of Nyssa, with ethical topics of interest being anarchism, environmentalism, and bioethics. James Loxley Compton is a lecturer in the department of philosophy at Auburn University. He is a graduate of St Vladimir's orthodox Theological Seminary and received his PhD from the University of Birmingham (UK). He works in philosophy of religion and specialises in concepts of God in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. He has a particular interest in mediae- val Muslim arguments for the existence of God. He co-chairs the Auburn Philosophy and Religion Workshop and is an advisor for the philosophy and religion minor at Auburn University. Michael DeVito is a PhD candidate at the University of Birmingham (UK) working under the supervision of professors Jussi Suikkanen and Nikk Effingham. His dissertation focuses on the longstanding problem of divine foreknowledge and human free will, exploring appeals to paradox

See more

The list of books you might like

Most books are stored in the elastic cloud where traffic is expensive. For this reason, we have a limit on daily download.