In the Shadow of God (stampa su richiesta)

In the Shadow of God tells us the story of the vicissitudes of Christian reflection in its confrontation with Greek-Roman philosophy: a confrontation thanks to which Christianity developed new conceptual categories appropriate to its message of salvation. It is a speculative itinerary starting from the Gospels and ending with the dissolution of medieval Scholasticism; it spans 14 centuries, which are among the most interesting
and fruitful in European culture.
The author of this book, a well-known Italian philosopher and historian of philosophy, professor at the University of Tubingen, shows that the definition of “Christian philosophy” reserved for this phase of Western culture, is fully justified. In fact, it was Christian faith that then pushed theologians and philosophers to try to explain the contents of religion with the resources of reason.
On the whole, In the Shadow of God is a useful primer for teaching students the value and the relevance of Christian philosophy as it was developed both in the early centuries (Apologetic and Patristic) and in the Middle Ages (Scholasticism).