Reason Faith and Otherness in Neoplatonic and Early Christian Thought

This book brings together a selection of Kevin Corrigan’s works published over the course of some 27 years. Its predominant theme is the encounter with otherness in ancient medieval and modern thought and it ranges in scope from the Presocratics-through Plato Aristotle Plotinus and the late ancient period on the one hand and early Christian thought especially Gregory of Nyssa Augustine and much later Aquinas on the other. Among the key questions examined are the relation between faith and reason; the nature of creation and insight being and existence; literature philosophy and the invention of the novel; personal human and divine identity; the problem of evil (particularly here in Dostoevsky’s adaptation of a Platonic perspective); the character of ideas themselves; women saints in the early Church; love of God and love of neighbor; the development of Christian Trinitarian thinking; the strange notion of philosophy as prayer; and the mind/soul-body relation.