Tennant, Frederick Robert (1866-1957) - Research Article from Encyclopedia of Philosophy

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 6 pages of information about Tennant, Frederick Robert (1866–1957).

Tennant, Frederick Robert (1866-1957) - Research Article from Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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Frederick Robert Tennant, the philosopher of religion and theologian, spent most of his life in Cambridge, England, and was educated at Cambridge University. He was a fellow of Trinity College and university lecturer in the philosophy of religion. His writings are in two main areas. In the strictly theological field he produced several influential studies of the concepts of sin and the fall of man, in which he diverged widely from the traditional Augustinian doctrines. In the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of science (in both of which his thought shows the influence of his Cambridge contemporary James Ward) Tennant's magnum opus is the two-volume Philosophical Theology, which develops, from foundations in the sciences, the thesis that there is "a theistic world-view commending itself as more reasonable than other interpretations or than the refusal to interpret, and congruent with the knowledge...

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