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The history of attitudes and exchange between Christianity and philosophy is long and complex. Within the range of the topic there turns up a lot of different but related questions, connected with subjects like faith and reason, knowing and believing, theology and philosophy, theology, philosophy and science, Christian philosophy, etc. I shall not try to give an historical description of these many-faceted subjects, but rather focus on the topic of Christian philosophy and touch upon the related topic of faith and reason. Was there ever and is there a Christian philosophy? If yes, what would it be like? I claim that the first question
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Tollefsen, T.T. (2010). Christianity and Philosophy. In: Fløistad, G. (eds) Philosophy of Religion. Contemporary Philosophy: A New Survey, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3527-1_6
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