First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, May 1st, 2001
The title of this essay is meant to be rather startling, and more startling than the phrase "Christian philosophy" which provoked no little controversy some few years ago. That phrase was introduced by the medievalist Etienne Gilson to describe the contributions to philosophy of such thinkers as St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Bonaventure. Gilson conceded to opponents that there could no more be a Christian philosophy, in the strict sense of the term, than a Christian mathematics or a Christian physics. All these studies were, in their formal idea, unconnected with matters of religious belief. Bu...
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