Philosophical Theologies In South Africa Genealogies Traditions And Speculations Khegan M Delport by Khegan M. Delport 9780906785003, 0906785006 instant download after payment.

Navigating the shared and contested space of “philosophy” and “theology” is a struggle that has existed for almost as long as these disciplines have been practised. Since the first recorded usage of “theology” in the Platonic corpus, there have been debates about its relation to philosophical practice and wisdom. In the wake of Aristotle’s inclusion of “theology” within the encyclopaedia of theoretical philosophy, the Abrahamic traditions have sought to relate, distinguish, and separate the pathways of philosophy and theology. For Christian theology, these relationships became particularly fraught after the Condemnations of 1277, a watershed moment within the history of Christianity. These internal debates within religious traditions were further exacerbated by the via moderna of nominalism and later through the Enlightenment critique of religious authority. It is chiefly Immanuel Kant who is credited with the disposing of “natural theology” through a delimitation of finite reason, while simultaneously emphasising the primacy of practical reasoning as the appropriate domain for religious expression – even as this curtailment of speculative metaphysics did not prevent its continuation (e.g., G.W.F. Hegel and F.W.J. Schelling). Nonetheless, the post-Kantian scepticism towards “philosophical theology” continues among practitioners of philosophy of religion until the present day – both within the so-called analytic and Continental traditions.