| The Intellectual Foundations of Christian and Jewish Discourse: The Philosophy of Religious Argument Contributor(s): Chilton, Bruce (Author), Neusner, Jacob (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415153980 ISBN-13: 9780415153980 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1997 Annotation: "The Intellectual Foundations of Christian and Jewish Discourse" is a unique and controversial analysis of the genesis and evolution of Judeo-Christian intellectual thought. Jacob Neusner and Bruce Chilton argue that the Judaic and Christian heirs of Scripture adopted, and adapted to their own purposes, Greek philosophical modes of thought, argument and science. "Intellectual Foundations of Christian and Jewish Discourse" explores how the earliest intellectuals of Christianity and Judaism shaped a tradition of articulated conflict and reasoned argument in the search for religious truth and focuses especially on methods of discourse in the Judaic and Christian intellectual and literary traditions. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - General - Religion | Judaism - General - Religion | Comparative Religion |
| Dewey: 296.301 |
| LCCN: 97003402 |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.34" W x 8.76" (0.76 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
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| Publisher Description: The Intellectual Foundations of Christian and Jewish Discourse argues that the Judaic and Christian heirs of Scripture adopted, and adapted to their own purposes and tasks, Greek philosophical modes of thought and argument. The authors explore how the earliest intellectuals of Christianity and Judaism shaped a tradition of articulated conflict and reasoned argument in the search for religious truth that was to be shared through continuing that argument with others. Neusner and Chilton examine, using the formative sources of Judaism and Christianity, the literary media of adaptation and reform: precisely where and how we identify in the foundation writings of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism the new opposing modes of articulated conflict and reasoned argument that through Christianity and Judaism, Greek philosophy and science bequeathed to the West. |