Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion

190 Q QI. Literally air or breath, qi is the matter or material force that, along with li or principle, makes up all existence. ...

191 R RADHAKRISHNAN, SARVEPALLI (1888–1975). Indian philosopher and statesman. Radhakrishnan is one of the major twentieth-centu ...

RATIONALISM 192 Catholic theologian. He was a proponent of a school of thought within Catholicism known as Nouvelle Théologie, w ...

REALITY 193 comprehensive religious doctrine, but he believed that law-making should be essentially secular. READING. Reading, f ...

REASON 194 know with certitude the nature of reality. Some realists distinguish the concept of reality from the concepts of delu ...

REINCARNATION 195 and regard creation as a divine gift and act of grace and yet marred by the fall and human sin. Reformed theol ...

RELATIVISM 196 Plotinus all held to some form of reincar- nation. Platonic reincarnation in particu- lar is characterized by a d ...

RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE 197 that guides its practitioners into what it describes as a saving, illuminating, or emancipatory relations ...

REPENTANCE 198 not (as with positivism) usually consid- ered incoherent until shown differently. REPENTANCE. More than regret, r ...

199 RICOEUR, PAUL (following Aquinas) or the information bearing pattern that organizes matter. Part of what is at stake in this ...

RITUAL / RITES 200 translated into English as Freedom and Nature (1966). In fact, we can recognize today how enduring the signif ...

ROMANTICISM 201 with other styles of Christianity (such as Protestantism and Eastern Orthodoxy), it also has distinctive feature ...

202 ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES colonies and France, along with industrial developments, was altering the structure of European socie ...

203 RUSSELL, BERTRAND ARTHUR WILLIAM Loyalty (1908), The Problem of Christian- ity (1913), Fugitive Essays (ed. J. Loewen- berg, ...

204 S SACRAMENT. Sacraments are liturgical rites that are both sensible signs and means by which divine grace is commu- nicated ...

SALVATION, CHRISTIAN CONCEPTION OF 205 figurative meaning is significant for ques- tions of ethics: for example, the problem of ...

SALVATION, NON-CHRISTIAN CONCEPTIONS OF 206 to God. Again, the various Christian traditions disagree about the details, but ther ...

207 SCHELER, MAX 1905–1906), Scepticism and Animal Faith (1923), Realms of Being (4 vols. 1927–1940), The Idea of Christ in the ...

208 SCHELLING, FRIEDRICH WILHELM JOSEPH VON a sense of the vitality of the good. Scheler’s early work employed phenome- nology i ...

209 SCHOPENHAUER, ARTHUR labeled “the father of modern theology,” Schleiermacher was a German theolo- gian, philosopher, and cla ...