Christianity and philosophy

Tollefsen

pp. 129-147

in: Guttorm Fløistad (ed), Philosophy of religion, Berlin, Springer, 2010

Abstract

The history of attitudes and exchange between Christianity and philosophy is long and complex. Within the range of the topic there turns up a lot of different but related questions, connected with subjects like faith and reason, knowing and believing, theology and philosophy, theology, philosophy and science, Christian philosophy, etc. I shall not try to give an historical description of these many-faceted subjects, but rather focus on the topic of Christian philosophy and touch upon the related topic of faith and reason. Was there ever and is there a Christian philosophy? If yes, what would it be like? I claim that the first question