Christian philosophy

Christian philosophy is the generalized - ecumenical umbrella term for a wide range of philosophical research programs that understand decidedly as related to Christian terms.

The term is used in a narrower sense only in relation to approaches that estimate specifically Christian requirements, but not for approaches that universal knowledge conditions demand. Since modern philosophy - attributed by a usually reason Immanuel Kant concept - calls widely the principle of universalizability truth and validity claims are projects of Christian philosophy, insofar as they require specific disclosures of Christian provenance, since the mid 19th century, especially but the 20th J. H. often critically evaluated. In addition, the term " Christian philosophy " sometimes used strictly descriptive in the history of philosophy to describe the corpus of all those texts that have been produced in the Christian cultural environment - similar to the designations Arab philosophy, Chinese philosophy, Jewish philosophy, etc.