Faith seeks understanding : a Christian approach to knowledge

內容簡介

Part One: Scientific knowledge -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Naive realism -- 3. Phenomenalism -- 4. Interpretive realism -- 5. Science and religion -- Part Two: Metaphysics and logic -- 1. Some inadequate views -- 2. Kinds of meaning 3. What is metaphysics? -- 4. The criteria of truth -- Part Three: Historical knowledge -- 1. The problem and its importance -- 2. The positivist view of history -- 3. The idealist view of history -- 4. The existentialist view of history -- 5. Interpretive realism -- Part Four: Moral knowledge -- 1. Ethics and religion -- 2. Ethics based on history: the problem of relativism -- 3. Ethics based on metaphysics: the question of natural law -- 4. Ethics based on experience: the limits of utilitarianism -- 5. Ethics and intuition: the problem of objective good -- Some constructive proposals -- Part Five: Personal knowledge -- 1. Our knowledge of other minds -- 2. Interpersonal knowledge -- Part Six: Religious knowledge -- 1. The Biblical concept of revelation -- 2. The ingredients of religious knowledge -- 3. The problem of religious language.