Idealism and Christian Theology

In the recent history of philosophy few works have appeared which favorably portray Idealism as a plausible philosophical view of the world. Considerably less has been written about Idealism as a viable framework for doing theology. While the most recent and significant works on Idealism composed by the late John Foster (<i>Case for Idealism</i> and <i>A World for Us: The Case for Phenomenological Idealism</i>) have put this theory back on the philosophical map no such attempt has been made to re-introduce Idealism to contemporary Christian theology. <i>Idealism and Christian Theology </i>is such a work retrieving ideas and arguments from its most significant modern exponents (especially George Berkeley and Jonathan Edwards) in order to assess its value for present and future theological construction. As a piece of constructive philosophical-theology itself this volume considers the explanatory power an Idealist ontology has for contemporary Christian theology.