Concept
Society of Christian Philosophers
Overview
The Society of Christian Philosophers (SCP) was founded in 1978. The society is open to anyone interested in philosophy who considers himself or herself a Christian. Membership is not restricted to any particular "school" of philosophy or to any branch of Christianity, nor to professional or academic philosophers. Terence Cuneo of the University of Vermont is currently President of the SCP, Justin McBrayer of Fort Lewis College is Executive Director, and Kevin Timpe of Calvin University is Treasurer.
Meetings of the society are regularly held in conjunction with the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Eastern, Central, and Pacific Divisions of the American Philosophical Association, and the Canadian Philosophical Association, and at the World Congress of Philosophy. The society also publishes a quarterly journal, Faith and Philosophy, which addresses philosophical issues from a Christian perspective.
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The confession of impotence, the abandonment of the programmatic intent is due to identification of the ideal with metaphysical fact, to the hypostasis of the ideal. With Christianism, that being a philosophy operating as a religion, world-weariness made the apology unnecessary and converted the hypostasis into the basis of that program of complete surrender of the attempt to master the problems of existence upon…
John Dewey, Creative Intelligence
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The adoption of such theories as a satisfactory system of belief, indicates a very exaggerated or rather false view of intellectual requirements, and a very insufficient recognition of moral and social wants. It is generally connected with the visionary but mischievous tendencies of ambitious thinkers to uphold what they call the empire of Reason. In the moral sphere it forms a sort of basis for the degrading…
Auguste Comte, A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life
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As far as one can judge, it is for the same reason that philosophers have aimed at a threefold division of science, or rather, were enabled to see that there was a threefold division (for they did not invent, but only discovered it), of which one part is called physical, another logical, the third ethical. The Latin equivalents of these names are now naturalized in the writings of many authors, so that these…
of Hippo Augustine, The City of God, Volume I
States what Society of Christian Philosophers is.
Philosophers who discussed Society of Christian Philosophers
- Linda Zagzebski
- Nicholas Wolterstorff
- Peter van Inwagen
- Robert Merrihew Adams
- William Alston
- Eleonore Stump
- Robert Audi
- Alvin Plantinga
- C. Stephen Evans
- Dean Zimmerman (philosopher)
- Kelly James Clark
- Ernan McMullin
- Marilyn McCord Adams
- Alexander Pruss
- Michael Bergmann (philosopher)
- Nancey Murphy
- Douglas Groothuis
- Paul Copan
Related ideas
- Linda Zagzebski
- Nicholas Wolterstorff
- World Congress of Philosophy
- American Philosophical Association
- Peter van Inwagen
- Christians
- Robert Merrihew Adams
- University of Vermont
- William Alston
- Eleonore Stump
- Robert Audi
- Alvin Plantinga
- Michael C. Rea
- C. Stephen Evans
- Marilyn McCord Adams
- Michael Bergmann (philosopher)
Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.
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