Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion

CONFESSION 50 to farmers and eventually achieve a per- fection in which all inequalities between persons are overcome. Despite h ...

CONTEMPLATION 51 the orthodox interpretation of Con- fucianism. Orthodoxy was enforced by the civil service examination system, ...

CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY 52 order is focused on acts of mercy and justice in the world. CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY. Phi- losophy that ...

COURAGE 53 a basis for our explanations of things within the cosmos. Cosmological argu- ments are sometimes formulated to jus- t ...

54 COVENANT COVENANT. From the Latin convenire, meaning “to come together.” The cove- nant is a key element in Judaism, which tr ...

CRITICAL REALISM 55 CREDO QUIA ABSURDUM EST. Latin, “I believe because it is absurd.” A phrase famously (and erroneously) attrib ...

56 CRITICISM CRITICISM. Kant called the Enlighten- ment the age of criticism. Subsequent Romantic philosophers set out to critic ...

57 D DALAI LAMA. Dalai is Mongolian for “Ocean” and Lama means teacher or guru, so the full title refers to a teacher with a spi ...

58 DANTE ALIGHIERI brother was even allowed to go with him to the palace and study. The 14th Dalai Lama was the fifth of 16 chil ...

DEATH 59 evolution and his assessment of a com- mon mammalian ancestry for human and nonhuman mammals, Darwin took leave of Chri ...

DECONSTRUCTION 60 be bad even if death is not bad for you. Some forms of Daosim see death as natural, whereas Christianity has t ...

61 DERRIDA, JACQUES revealed through miracles in human his- tory and does not play an active, sustain- ing role in creation. Som ...

62 DESCARTES, RENÉ well-known key terms that challenges Western metaphysics—it is a unified body of thought in the philosophical ...

63 DEUS EX MACHINA Roderick Chisholm): the interaction of mind and body is no less strange than the causal interrelationship of ...

64 DEUS SIVE NATURA DEUS SIVE NATURA. Latin, “God or Nature,” the slogan of Spinoza’s panenthe- ism. Spinoza recognized God and ...

65 DION CHRYSOSTOM (1905), The Essence of Philosophy (1907), and The Types of World View (1911). DIOGENES LAERTIUS (3rd century ...

DIRTY HANDS 66 north of Asia Minor, including the land of the Getae, about which he later wrote and spoke. After Domitian’s deat ...

DIVINE SIMPLICITY 67 while even denying their underlying structure. Divine command theories face the worry that God’s commands m ...

DOCETISM 68 behind the teaching can be stated thus: as the absolutely perfect source of the existence of everything, God cannot ...

DOUBLE EFFECTS, PRINCIPLE OF 69 birthplace in France was threatened greatly during the French Revolution, but around the same ti ...