Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion

ALBERTUS MAGNUS, St 10 cosmos was created in time ex nihilo by God. His chief works include The Aims of Philosophers, The Incohe ...

11 AMOUR DE SOI School in order to deal with problems (from the perspective of Greek philoso- phy) such as anthropomorphic descr ...

ANALOGY 12 independent of how we relate to others. The other form of self-love, amour propre, does depend upon comparing oneself ...

ANGELS 13 some distinguished analytic philosophy of religion (represented by Alvin Plantinga and Richard Swinburne) has been rec ...

ANGST 14 Lucifer (Satan), were expelled from heaven by God because of rebellion, and that they now control the powers of evil an ...

15 ANSCOMBE, GERTRUDE ELIZABETH MARGARET morally and even divinely permissible to raise and eat animals. Judaism and Chris- tian ...

16 ANSELM OF CANTERBURY, St. in a debate on his theistic argument based on reason. Her chief works include Intention (1957), An ...

ANTICHRIST 17 language about God as expressive of atti- tudes (e.g., to profess belief in God is to be understood as professing ...

ANTINOMIANISM 18 ANTINOMIANISM. From Greek anti + nomos, meaning “against law.” The view that Christians who are saved by grace ...

19 AQUINAS, St. THOMAS OF assuming a human body. Apollinarian Christologies did not acknowledge the full humanity of Jesus Chris ...

20 ARENDT, HANNAH (1242–1243), On Truth (1256–1259), On Potency (1259–1263), Summa Contra Gentiles (1259–1263), On the Divine Na ...

21 ASCETICISM ancient philosophers of European philo- sophy and theology until the eighteenth century and perhaps even to the tw ...

ASEITY 22 ASEITY. From the Latin aseitas, meaning “from or by oneself (or itself ).” A being has aseity if its very nature is ex ...

23 ATTRIBUTES, DIVINE is often deterministic, one can be an atomist and allow for indeterminism. ATONEMENT, THEORIES OF. Chris- ...

AUGUSTINE, St 24 Christians believe the Godhead consists of three persons. AUGUSTINE, St. (354–430 CE). Augustine Aurelius Augus ...

25 AXIOLOGY itself is legitimate. In the history of reli- gion, two of the more significant disputes over authority involve the ...

26 AXIOM AXIOM. From the Greek for “to think worthy.” An axiom is a proposition that is assumed to be true, not being based on t ...

27 B BACON, FRANCIS (1561–1626). He developed an elegant case for empirical, scientific inquiry that was free from superstition ...

BAHÁ’Í FAITH 28 established in 832 CE. The Baghdad School also translated the works of Greek philosophers such as Plato, Aristot ...

29 BAYLE, PIERRE Gregory of Nyssa) who served as bishops and wrote multiple works in the central region of modern Turkey. Basil, ...