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- Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy of
Religion is the study of the meaning
and justification of fundamental religious
claims, particularly about the nature and
existence of God (or gods, or the
divine).
Philosophy of religion was
classically regarded as part of metaphysics, since
Aristotle, in some of whose writings were
later identified by editors as The
Metaphysics, described one of the
subjects of his investigation as the
investigation of first causes. ...
- Theology
Th
eology was used as early as in Plato's Republic (book ii, chap
18). The the term, compounded from two Greek
words theos (god) and logos
(rational utterance), has been defined as reasoned discourse about God or
the gods, or more generally
about religion or spirituality. ...
- Gnosticism
Gnosticism is a blanket term for various
religions and sects most prominent in the
first few centuries A.D. Many elements of
second-century gnosticsm are pre-Christian.
The name of gnosticism comes from the Greek word for
knowledge, gnosis (??????),
referring to the idea that there is special,
hidden knowledge (esoteric knowledge) that
only a few may possess. ...
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