Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion

DOUBT 70 utilitarian use of the principle, especially in light of the fourth condition. A controversial use of the principle wou ...

DUTY 71 The writings of Duns Scotus are characterized as extremely complex and lengthy, which earned him the nickname “Subtle Do ...

72 E ECKHART, MEISTER (c. 1260–1327). German Christian theologian and mystic whose philosophy of the relationship between God an ...

73 EINSTEIN, ALBERT Ethical egoism is the view that one ought to act out of self-interest if one fully understands a situation. ...

74 ELIADE, MIRCEA and General Theories of Relativity: A Popular Exposition (1917), Cosmological Considerations of General Relati ...

ENLIGHTENMENT 75 Essays (2 vols., 1841, 1844), Poems (1846), Representative Men (1850), English Traits (1856), The Conduct of Li ...

76 ENS REALISSIMUM “Dare to know” (Latin: sapere aude). Con- temporary philosophers are not united in assessing the achievement ...

77 ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS God? In epistemology one also studies theories of evidence, justification, and warrant. What are the poss ...

78 ERIUGENA, JOHN SCOTTUS Testament (1516), a series on the Church Fathers, including Jerome, Cyprian, Pseudo-Arnobius, Hilarius ...

ETERNAL 79 thoroughly eschatological. This is evident from the pregnant line Christians repeat when they celebrate the Eucharist ...

ETERNAL RETURN / RECURRENCE 80 ETERNAL RETURN / RECURRENCE. Events A, B, and C have and will reoccur infinitely, in the same ord ...

EVANGELICALISM 81 relieve suffering and so on. Ethics is sometimes studied or carried out with respect to particular traditions ...

EVANGELISM 82 of the eighteenth century. This pan- denominational evangelicalism includes Pentecostal and charismatic Christiani ...

EXISTENTIALISM 83 natural selection, it is ipso facto good or virtuous or more ethical than organisms that perish. Darwin propos ...

EXISTENTIALISM 84 on the plight of the concrete individual in his or her quest for authenticity, that is, responsibility (as opp ...

85 F FAITH. May refer either to what is believed (religious teachings or creeds) or the act of believing itself. The latter has ...

FALSE 86 is infallibly known, it is incorrigible (not subject to correction), but it is possible (logically) for a belief to be ...

FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION 87 Farrer’s first book, Finite and Infinite (1943) was written, by his own admission, while he w ...

88 FEUERBACH, LUDWIG ANDREAS The “new” in twenty-first century femi- nist philosophy of religion includes greater attention to m ...

89 FILMER, SIR ROBERT (1843), and The Essence of Religion (1846). FICHTE, JOHANN GOTTLIEB (1762– 1814). German idealist philosop ...