"This new edition of Philosophy for Understanding Theology adds chapters on postmodernism and questions of the self and the good to bring the book up to date with current scholarship. It introduces students to the influence that key philosophers and philosophical movement through the centuries have had on shaping Christian theology in both its understandings and forms of expression."--Jacket

Plato: the world is the handiwork of a mind --Plato: this world is not our home -- The platonic tradition: the stoics, plotinus, pseudo-dionysius -- Aristotle: his categories and the mystery of god -- Aristotle and the creation of scholastic theology -- Aquinas' program and two critics: karl barth and process theology -- The beginnings of the modem world: nominalism, humanism -- The scientific revolution -- Early modem philosophy: rationalism, empiricism, the enlightenment -- Kant and the limits of knowledge -- Hegel and the restoration of optimism -- The search for meaning in contemporary philosophy: -- Existentialism, phenomenology, and, hermeneutics -- Postmodernism: truth, objectivity and certainty -- Postmodernism: moral philosophy.