By Charles Taliaferro
Emphasizing transferring perspectives of religion and the character of facts, Charles Taliaferro has written a dynamic narrative historical past of philosophical mirrored image on faith from the 17th century to the current. starting with the circulate of Cambridge Platonism, which shaped a bridge among the traditional and medieval worlds and early glossy philosophy, his booklet offers an summary of other pursuits in philosophy, in addition to targeted research and mirrored image on key arguments.
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