"Guides for the Perplexed" Series Opinions?

[Matt90]

Hey all

In a fury of procrastination I stumbled upon this series of books, as titled above. You can see a list (though I think it is incomplete) here

The series covers people such as Deleuze, Heidegger and Husserl to Balthasar, Benedict XVI and de Lubac. Certain books cover wider topics such as The Holy Trinity, Christian Bioethics and Process Theology too.

Has anybody had any encounters with the series? Do the insights tend to be objective, and include the main points of focus or can it be biased and the quality vary from one topic/thinker to the next?

Thanks

Kind regards
Matt

 

[landon13]

I’m assuming from these and from some books fairly similar that I have seen before that it would be very much just objective and stating the facts. They may state briefly objections to these ideas or philosophies or some progress since these philosophers but it should be fairly unbiased.

Blessings!

 

[Linusthe2nd]

Hey all

In a fury of procrastination I stumbled upon this series of books, as titled above. You can see a list (though I think it is incomplete) here

The series covers people such as Deleuze, Heidegger and Husserl to Balthasar, Benedict XVI and de Lubac. Certain books cover wider topics such as The Holy Trinity, Christian Bioethics and Process Theology too.

Has anybody had any encounters with the series? Do the insights tend to be objective, and include the main points of focus or can it be biased and the quality vary from one topic/thinker to the next?

Thanks

Kind regards
Matt

I don’t think reading authors neither you nor we know anything about would help strengthen your faith. On the other hand reading the Fathers of the Church, the Lives of the Saints, good histories of the Catholic Faith, the Catechism, St. Thomas, St. Augustine will do you much good - and that is a promise.

Linus2nd

 

[Matt90]

I’m assuming from these and from some books fairly similar that I have seen before that it would be very much just objective and stating the facts. They may state briefly objections to these ideas or philosophies or some progress since these philosophers but it should be fairly unbiased.

Blessings!

Thanks very much

I don’t think reading authors neither you nor we know anything about would help strengthen your faith. On the other hand reading the Fathers of the Church, the Lives of the Saints, good histories of the Catholic Faith, the Catechism, St. Thomas, St. Augustine will do you much good - and that is a promise.

Linus2nd

Thank you for your advice Linus2nd, as it happens I have been reading Athanasius and Augustine, and have writings from Bonaventure, Maximus Confessor, Benedict XVI and more lined up too . This thread was merely started out of curiosity. Once again, thank you for your sound advice

Kind Regards
Matt