Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion

210 SCHWEITZER, ALBERT Schopenhauer accepts Immanuel Kant’s distinction between the world as it appears to perception and as thi ...

SECULAR 211 Father in bringing about the end of history. Jesus’ radical ethic is to be under- stood on the grounds that it is an ...

SELF-DECEPTION 212 simply meant “worldly” and was used in contrast with living the monastic life. So, a priest who was active in ...

213 SHAFTESBURY, ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, THIRD EARL OF but only concerning actions. Roger Williams, in the seventeenth century, a ...

SHAME 214 overriding theistic understanding of God as a beneficent creator, united ethics and aesthetics. His works include Char ...

SIKHISM 215 Amaterasu, as the putative ancestor of the imperial family, emerged as the most important deity for the purposes of ...

SIMPLICITY 216 Lord” in the Gurmukhi language), is the formless and genderless creator of the universe who is the eternal truth ...

217 SMITH, ADAM such as authenticity, purity, and openness carry something of the meaning of sin- cerity. To be insincere is to ...

SOCRATES 218 developed an account of the wealth of nations. He advocated small scale, free trade and a free market in which rati ...

219 SPINOZA, BENEDICT DE interprets omens, engages in witchcraft.” And Acts 8:9–11 says: “Now for some time a man named Simon ha ...

SPIRIT 220 descent born in Amsterdam. He was excommunicated from the synagogue in 1656 for heretical views such as the belief th ...

SUICIDE 221 see Jesus Christ as having a more vital cosmic role than theosophy allowed. He called his more Christ-centered spiri ...

222 SUMMUM BONUM Christian ethics traditionally forbids suicide as part of the general prohibition against homicide as well as o ...

SYNCRETISM 223 that religion is the result of an evolution- ary process. In each case, religion’s truth- claims may be dismissed ...

224 T TAO I S M. See DAOISM. TAWHID. The Islamic belief in God’s oneness. This is often held up in discus- sions with Christians ...

THEOLOGY 225 TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. Approaches that stress the apparent value and purpo- sive nature of ...

THOMISM 226 of the nature of God and the relationship between God and the world. The term was first used by Plato in the Republi ...

227 TOLSTOY, LEO TIME. The perceived continuous change in the world which is denoted by changes in objects or states. Most peopl ...

TRANSCEND / TRANSCENDENCE 228 Christianity that included a creed of nonviolence. Tolstoy approached Chris- tian faith as the ans ...

TRANSFER OF MERIT 229 tradition—from Plato and the Stoics to Boehme and Kant—both Emerson and Henry David Thoreau also actively ...