From hanging out here for a few years it seems like:
(a) Catholics aren't too interested in understanding many philosophers after, say, Aquinas.
(b) Evangelicals and Protestants aren't too interested in anyone before, say, Luther, or much of anything after, say, Calvin.
1. If these are unfair generalizations, tell me why.
2. If you're a Christian, do you feel it's important at all to understand the heavy hitters of philosophy, morality, and religion? (Spinoza, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and so forth). Do you ever challenge your own beliefs about the nature of faith, or nature of God, or hermeneutics by reading philosophers that have different views from what you've been taught?
(a) Catholics aren't too interested in understanding many philosophers after, say, Aquinas.
(b) Evangelicals and Protestants aren't too interested in anyone before, say, Luther, or much of anything after, say, Calvin.
1. If these are unfair generalizations, tell me why.
2. If you're a Christian, do you feel it's important at all to understand the heavy hitters of philosophy, morality, and religion? (Spinoza, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and so forth). Do you ever challenge your own beliefs about the nature of faith, or nature of God, or hermeneutics by reading philosophers that have different views from what you've been taught?