A History of Western Philosophy and Theology by John Frame – Analytical Outline

Here is the Analytical Outline for the first 5 chapters of John Frame‘s upcoming title: A History of Western Philosophy and Theology. This title will be released later this month.

1. Philosophy and the Bible

a. Why Study Philosophy?

b. Philosophy, Theology, and Religion

c. Subdivisions of Philosophy

i. Metaphysics

ii. Epistemology

iii. Value Theory

d. Relations of the Three Subdivisions

e. Biblical Philosophy

i. Creator and Creature

ii. Absolute Tripersonality

iii. Lordship

f. Perspectives of Human Knowledge

g. Sin and Philosophy

h. Christian and Non-Christian Philosophy

i. The Antithesis in Metaphysics

j. The Antithesis in Epistemology

k. The Antithesis in Values

2. Greek Philosophy

a. Greek Worldviews: One and Many

b. The Greek Way of Worship

c. Philosophy, the New Religion

d. A Survey of Greek Philosophy

i. The Milesians

ii. Heraclitus

iii. Parmenides

iv. The Atomists

v. Pythagoras

vi. The Sophists

vii. Socrates

viii. Plato

ix. Aristotle

x. Stoicism

xi. Plotinus

e. Conclusion

3. Early Christian Philosophy

a. The Apostolic Fathers

b. The Apologists

c. Justin Martyr

d. Irenaeus

e. Tertullian

f. Clement of Alexandria

g. Origen

h. Athanasius

i. Augustine

i. Manichaeism

ii. Epistemology

iii. The Trinity

iv. Pelagianism

v. The City of God

vi. TheConfessions

4. Medieval Philosophy

a. Boethius

b. Pseudo-Dionysius

c. John Scotus Erigena

d. Anselm of Canterbury

i. Faith and Reason

ii. Monologium

iii. Proslogium

iv. Cur Deus Homo

e. Toward Scholasticism

f. Thomas Aquinas

i. Faith and Reason

ii. The Existence of God

iii. The Nature of God

iv. Epistemology

v. Language

g. John Duns Scotus

h. William of Occam

i. Eckhart von Hochheim

j. Epilogue

5. Early Modern Thought

a. The Renaissance

b. The Reformation

i. Martin Luther

ii. John Calvin

c. Post-Reformation Protestantism

i. Protestant Scholasticism

ii. Pietism

d. Rebirth of Secular Philosophy

e. Continental Rationalism

i. Rationalism and Empiricism

ii. René Descartes

iii. Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza

iv. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

f. British Empiricism

i. Thomas Hobbes

ii. John Locke

iii. George Berkeley

iv. David Hume

g. Summary