101 Key Terms in Philosophy and Their Importance for Theology

by Clark, Kelly James

• ISBN13: 9780664225247
• ISBN10: 0664225241
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-01
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

Summary

Written by two philosophers and a theologian, this book provides easy access to key terms in philosophy and how they are understood and used in theology. The focused entries discuss what the terms have meant in classical and contemporary philosophy and then shift to what these philosophical understandings have meant in the history of Christian theology to the present day. The result is a unique volume that clearly shows the interplay of these disciplines and how theology has been influenced by the language and vocabulary of philosophy.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Reader's Guide	vii
Aesthetics	1	(1)
Analytic /Continental Philosophy	1	(1)
Anselm	2	(2)
Anthropomorphic Language	4	(1)
Apologetics	5	(1)
Aquinas, Thomas	6	(2)
Aristotle	8	(1)
Atheism	9	(1)
Augustine	10	(1)
Being and Goodness	11	(1)
Cause/Causality	12	(1)
Common Sense Philosophy	13	(1)
Cosmology	14	(1)
Deconstruction	15	(1)
Descartes, Rene	16	(1)
Dualism/Monism	17	(1)
Enlightenment	18	(1)
Epistemology	19	(1)
Essence/Essentialism	20	(1)
Eternal/Everlasting	21	(1)
Ethics	22	(1)
Ethics, Biblical	23	(1)
Euthyphro Problem	24	(1)
Evil, Problem of	25	(1)
Existentialism	25	(1)
Faith	26	(1)
Faith and Reason	27	(1)
Feminism/Feminist Philosophy	28	(2)
Feuerbach, Ludwig	30	(1)
Free Will	30	(1)
Freud, Sigmund	31	(1)
God, Belief in	32	(1)
God, Nature of	32	(1)
Good/Goodness	33	(1)
Happiness	34	(1)
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich	35	(1)
Heidegger, Martin	36	(1)
Hell	37	(1)
Hermeneutics	38	(1)
Human Nature	39	(1)
Hume, David	40	(1)
Idealism	41	(1)
Immutability and Impassibility	42	(1)
Justice	43	(2)
Kant, Immanuel	45	(1)
Kierkegaard, Soren	46	(1)
Leibniz, Gottfried	47	(1)
Logic	48	(2)
Logos	50	(1)
Marx, Karl	50	(1)
Metaphysics/Ontology	51	(1)
Mind/Soul/Spirit	52	(2)
Miracles	54	(1)
Modernity/Modernism	54	(1)
Naturalism/Materialism	55	(1)
Natural Theology	56	(1)
Necessity	57	(1)
Neoplatonism	58	(1)
Nietzsche, Friedrich	59	(1)
Nihilism	60	(1)
Ockham, William of	61	(1)
Omnipotence	61	(1)
Omnipresence	62	(1)
Omniscience and Foreknowledge	62	(2)
Ontotheology	64	(1)
Ordinary Language Philosophy	64	(1)
Pascal, Blaise	65	(1)
Perspectivalism	66	(1)
Phenomenology	67	(1)
Philosophy	68	(2)
Plato and Platonism	70	(1)
Pluralism, Exclusivism, and Inclusivism	71	(1)
Positivism	72	(1)
Postmodernism	73	(2)
Pragmatism	75	(1)
Process Thought	75	(1)
Pseudo-Dionysius	76	(1)
Realism/Anti-Realism	77	(1)
Reason/Rationality	78	(1)
Reason and Belief in God	79	(1)
Reductionism	80	(1)
Relativism	81	(1)
Religious Language	82	(1)
Renaissance Humanism	83	(1)
Resurrection/Immortality	83	(1)
Schleiermacher, Friedrich	84	(1)
Scholasticism	85	(1)
Scotus, John Duns	86	(1)
Self	87	(1)
Semiotics	88	(1)
Simplicity	88	(2)
Stoicism	90	(1)
Substance	90	(1)
Teleology	91	(1)
Theistic Arguments	92	(1)
Theodicy	93	(2)
Transcendence	95	(1)
Truth	96	(1)
Underdetermination	97	(1)
Universals	97	(1)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig	98	(3)
Bibliography	101	(12)
Cross-Reference Index	113