or can they only be a theologian?
2007-03-13 03:56:28 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
of course. Kant, Kierkegaard, Plantinga and Schuurman?
2007-03-13 04:04:29 · answer #1 · answered by super Bobo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that might be akin to asking if a mechanic can be a philosopher.
A mechanic can philosophize, I suppose a theist can too, but perhaps when he is philosophizing about god, he is acting as a theologian, but then what is a philosopher that is philosophizing about god?
2007-03-13 03:59:56 · answer #2 · answered by poseidenneptune 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Anyone that follows and lives by a belief system whether religious or non religious is living a philosopher's life.
A theist recognizes their philosophy is based on an ideology that is much bigger and wiser and all knowing than man is. And so the theist acknowledges that and follows in the principles and lives the spirit of the law and it's letter as he lives with is fellow man.
2007-03-13 04:16:04 · answer #3 · answered by Uncle Remus 54 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Would an atheist believe it if a theologian claimed she was a philosopher?
I would think that yes, a theologian could be a philosopher, but perhaps one with fewer doubts, than another.
What do you think?
2007-03-13 04:06:46 · answer #4 · answered by thankyou "iana" 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What would prevent a theist to be philosopher and even scientist? Only personal ability and interest.
I don't know much about the following person except his reputation: Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
But wasn't he both!?
2007-03-13 04:08:58 · answer #5 · answered by Fuzzy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There have been many "theist" philosophers through the ages" Thomas Aquais, Augustine, Pascal, Kent, Plato, Aristotle, and thousands more.
2007-03-13 04:00:22 · answer #6 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes a theist can be a philosopher.
2007-03-13 03:59:40 · answer #7 · answered by Angelz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most lives are shaped by a number of influences. My best philosophy professor in college was also a minister (though I only discovered this later), and my favorite minister friends frequently hold us spellbound by philosophizing over dinner without ever bringing up the deity.
2007-03-13 03:59:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There have been many theistic philosophers. R. C. Sproul is a philosopher as sell as a theologian.
2007-03-13 03:59:23 · answer #9 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He could but he certainly would have to read and know the religious philosophers such as Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine and he'd have to understand basis moral questions such as where does temptation come from.
2007-03-13 04:03:11 · answer #10 · answered by Marg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many philosophers were theists.
2007-03-13 03:59:32 · answer #11 · answered by Quantrill 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋