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PHL 221 Terms
Part I
Philosophy of Religion
Analytical Philosophy
The Intellectual Process
Metaphysics
Epistemology
Materialism
Idealism
Naturalism
Realism
Supernatural Being
Ultimate Reality
Theology
Atheism
Pan-theism
Polytheism
Monotheism
Fideism
Monism
Dualism
Pluralism
Determinism
Fetishism
Totemism
Mysticism
Ninian Smart’s Definition of Religion
Morris’s Fully Human and Merely Human
Alston’s Three Models
Mavrodes’s Three Models
Part II
Brahman
Dao
Logos
Neoplatonism
Classical Theism & Process Theism
Devine Attributes
The Nature of God
Necessary Being
Anselmian Theology
Baruch de Spinoza
Self-existent
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A. N. Whitehead
God’s Omnipresence
God’s Omnipotence
God’s Omniscience
Augustine
Absolute Sovereignty
Problem of Evil
Compatibilist Free Will & Libertarian Free Will
God’s Existence
Person-relative View of Proof
The Ontological Argument
The Cosmological Argument
The Teleological Argument
The Moral Argument
David Hume
Thomas Aquinas
Final Causation
The Method of Correlation
Bertrand Russell
The Rock of Atheism
Moral Evil & Natural Evil
The Logical Problem of Evil & The Evidential problem of Evil
Augustinian Theodicy, Irenaean Theodicy & Process Theodicy
God’s Morality & Human Morality
The Ultimate Harmony
Karma & Reincarnation
Four Views of Life after Death
Immortality
Resurrection
Re-creation
The Identity Theory
Central State Materialism
A Posteriori Argument
A Priori Argument
Part III
Skepticism
Agnosticism
Religious Experience
Observation
Normal Sensory Language
Shunya (pure emptiness)
The Principle of Credulity
Diversity of Religious Experience
The People¡¯s Temple
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Strong Rationalism
John Locke
Thomas Aquinas
World Views
Fideism
The Neo-orthodox Theology
Critical Rationalism
Evidentialism
Foudationalism
Self-evident
Properly Basic Beliefs
Reformed Epistemology
Neutral Rationality
Sensory Experience
The Problem of the conflicting Ideas of God
Miracles
Miraculous Divine Intervention
David Hume
Natural Laws
The occurrence of nonrepeatable Counterinstances
Buddhism
Hinduism
Confucianism
Taoism (Daoism)
Islam
Judaism
Unitarianism
Unificationism
Exclusivism
Pluralism
Inclusivism
Part IV
Normative Ethics (Prescriptive Ethics)
Non-normative Ethics (Descriptive Ethics)
Metaethics
Teleological Ethics (Virtual Ethics)
Deontological Ethics
Moral Relativism
Ethical Pluralism
Religious or Theological Feminism
The Galileo Affair
Scientific Materialism
Biblical Liberalism
Scientific Creationism
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“Monkey Trial” of 1925
Protestant Neo-orthodoxy
Existentialism
Sartre
Linguistic Analysis
Philosophy of Science
Thomas Kuhn
The Classical Theory of Analogy
Anthropomorphism
Agnosticism
Logic Positivism
A. J. Ayer
Verification Principle
Falsification Principle
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Feminist Theology
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