Speaking of a personal God : an essay in philosophical theology

This short work shows how systematic theology is itself a philosophical enterprise. After analysing the nature of philosophical enquiry and its relation to systematic theology, and after explaining how theology requires that we talk about God, Vincent Brümmer illustrates how philosophical analysis can help in dealing with various conceptual problems involved in the fundamental Christian claim that God is a personal being with whom we may live in a personal relationship. This short work shows how systematic theology is itself a philosophical enterprise. After analyzing the nature of philosophical enquiry and its relation to systematic theology, and after explaining how theology requires that we talk about God, Vincent Brmmer illustrates how philosophical analysis can help in dealing with various conceptual problems involved in the fundamental Christian claim that God is a personal being with whom we may live in a personal relationship. This short work shows how systematic theology is itself a philosophical enterprise. After analyzing the nature of philosophical enquiry and its relation to systematic theology, and after explaining how theology requires that we talk about God, Vincent Brummer illustrates how philosophical analysis can help in dealing with various conceptual problems involved in the fundamental Christian claim that God is a personal being with whom we may live in a personal relationship This book, written by an influentual philosopher of religion, shows how systematic theology is itself largely a philosophical enterprise. After analysing the nature of philosophical inquiry and its relation to systematic theology, Vincent Brummer illustrates how philosophical analysis can help in dealing with various conceptual problems involved in the fundamental Christian claim that God is a personal being with whom we may live in a personal relationship. This book, written by an influential philosopher of religion, shows how systematic theology is itself largely a philosophical enterprise. After analysing the nature of philosophical inquiry and its relation to systematic theology, Vincent Brummer illustrates how philosophical analysis can help in dealing with various conceptual problems involved in the fundamental Christian claim that God is a personal being with whom we may live in a personal relationship

This short work, written by an influential philosopher of religion, shows how systematic theology is itself largely a philosophical enterprise.

Between theologians and philosophers there has often been a strange love-hate relationship.