Pocket Dictionary of Apologetics & Philosophy of Religion: 300 Terms Thinkers Clearly Concisely Defined (The IVP Pocket Reference Series)

For philosophers, the pursuit of truth travels on precise definitions. For Christian apologists, the defense of the faith is founded on the defining Word. And for beginning students of either discipline, the difference between success and frustration begins with understanding the terms and ideas and identifying the thinkers and movements. The Pocket Dictionary of Apologetics & Philosophy of Religion is designed to be a companion to your study of these two related disciplines. Among its 300 entries are terms, from a posteriori to worldview apologists, from Abelard to Van Til philosophers of religion, from Alston to Wolterstorff movements, from analytic philosophy to voluntarism apologetic arguments, from the cosmological to the wager theologies, from Arminianism to Zoroastrianism Here is an affordable and easily accessible "help key" for your readings, lectures, writing assignments and exam preparation. It's a must-have study aid for any student who expects to cogitate on coherentism or ruminate on Ricouer. A Posteriori, A Priori -- Abelard, Peter -- Action (divine And Human) -- Advaita Vedanta -- Afterlife -- Agapism -- Agnosticism -- Alston, William -- Analogical Predication -- Analogy Of Being -- Analogy Of Faith -- Analytic Philosophy -- Angels -- Animism -- Anselm, St. -- Anthropomorphism -- Antirealism -- Antithesis -- Apologetics -- Aquinas, St. Thomas -- Argument From Prophecy -- Aristotle -- Arminianism -- Aseity -- Atheism -- Atonement -- Attributes Of God -- Augustine, St. -- Authority -- Autonomy -- Averroës -- Avicenna -- Barth, Karl -- Beatific Vision -- Beauty -- Behaviorism -- Belief -- Berkeley, George -- Boethius -- Bonaventure -- Brunner, Emil -- Buber, Martin -- Buddhism -- Bultman, Rudolf -- Burden Of Proof -- Butler, Joseph Calvin, John -- Camus, Albert -- Cappadocian Fathers -- Carnell, Edward John -- Categorical Imperative -- Categories -- Category Mistake -- Causation -- Chain Of Being -- Character -- Chesterton, G. K. -- Christology -- City Of God -- Clarke, Samuel -- Clement Of Alexandria -- Cognition, Cognitive -- Coherentism -- Colonialism, Paternalism, Imperialism -- Common Grace -- Common Sense Philosophy -- Communitarianism -- Compatibilism -- Complementarity -- Conceptualism -- Confucianism -- Conscience -- Consciousness -- Consequentialism -- Conservation Of Creation -- Contingency -- Conversion -- Correspondence Theory Of Truth -- Cosmological Arguments -- Counterfactuals -- Covenant -- Creation -- Creation Order -- Creationism -- Cultural Relativism -- Cumulative Case Arguments -- Cupitt, Don Daly, Mary -- Daoism -- Darwinism -- Death, Survival Of -- Deductive Argument -- Deism -- Demons -- Demythologization -- Deontological Theory -- Derrida, Jacques -- Descartes, René -- Design Argument -- Determinism -- Dewey, John -- Dialectic -- Dialectical Materialism -- Dialectical Theology -- Divine Action -- Divine Attributes -- Divine Command Theories -- Dogma -- Dooyeweerd, Herman -- Double Effect, Principle Of -- Doubt -- Dualism -- Duns Scotus, John -- Durkheim, Émile -- Ecofeminism -- Ecological Crisis -- Edwards, Jonathan -- Egoism -- Eliminative Materialism -- Embodiment -- Enlightenment -- Epistemology -- Equivocal -- Eschatological Verification -- Eschatology -- Essentialism -- Eternity/everlasting -- Ethics -- Euthyphro Dilemma -- Evidentialism -- Evil, Nature Of -- Evil, Problem Of -- Evolution, Theory Of -- Exclusivism -- Existentialism -- Experience Of God -- Faith -- Fall, The -- Fatalism -- Feminism -- Feuerbach, Ludwig -- Fideism -- Finitude -- First Cause -- Five Ways -- Foreknowledge, Divine -- Foundationalism -- Foundationalism, Classical -- Free Will -- Free Will Defense -- Freud, Sigmund -- Functionalism -- Fundamentalism Gadamer, Hans-georg -- Galileo Galilei -- Gender -- General Revelation -- Gnosticism -- God -- God-of-the-gaps Argument -- Good, The -- Grace -- Happiness -- Heaven -- Hedonism -- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich -- Heidegger, Martin -- Hell -- Henotheism -- Hermeneutics -- Hick, John -- Hildegard Of Bingen -- Hinduism -- Historical Jesus -- Hobbes, Thomas -- Holiness -- Holism -- Hope -- Humanism -- Hume, David -- Husserl, Edmund -- I-thou Relationship -- Ibn Rushd -- Ibn Sina, Abu Ali -- Idealism -- Identity, Personal -- Image Of God -- Imago Dei -- Immortality -- Immutability -- Impassibility -- Incarnation -- Incorporeality -- Inductive Reasoning -- Ineffability -- Inerrancy -- Infallibility -- Inference To The Best Explanation -- Infinity -- Inspiration -- Intelligent Design -- Irenaeus -- Islam -- Islamic Philosophy -- Jainism -- James, William -- Judaism -- Judgment, Last -- Just War Theory -- Justice -- Justification -- Justin Martyr -- Kalam Cosmological Argument -- Kant, Immanuel -- Kenotic Theories -- Knowledge Language, Religious (theories Of) -- Law (moral, Divine, Natural) -- Leibniz, Gottfried -- Lessing, Gotthold -- Levinas, Emmanuel -- Lewis, C. S. -- Liberalism (theological) -- Liberation Theology -- Libertarianism (metaphysical) -- Libertarianism (political) -- Life After Death -- Locke, John -- Logical Positivism -- Logos -- Love -- Luther, Martin -- Macintyre, Alasdair -- Magic -- Magisterium -- Maimonides, Moses -- Manichaeism -- Marcel, Gabriel-honoré -- Marx, Karl -- Marxism -- Materialism -- Mere Christianity -- Metaethics -- Metaphor -- Metaphysics -- Middle Knowledge -- Mind-body Problem -- Miracle -- Model -- Modernism -- Molinism -- Monism -- Monotheism -- Moral Arguments (for God's Existence) -- Morality -- Mystery -- Mysticism -- Natural Law -- Natural Light -- Natural Theology -- Nature/grace Relationship -- Necessary Being -- Necessary Truths -- Necessity -- Negative Theology -- Neo-orthodoxy -- Neo-platonism -- Newman, Cardinal John Henry -- Nietzsche, Friedrich -- Nihilism -- Nominalism -- Noncognitivism -- Nonreductive Materialism -- Numinous Objectivity -- Ockman, William Of -- Omnibenevolence -- Omnipotence -- Omnipresence -- Omniscience -- Ontological Argument -- Ontology -- Open Theism -- Order Of Being / Order Of Knowledge -- Origen -- Original Sin -- Pacifism -- Paganism -- Pain -- Paley, William -- Panentheism -- Pannenberg, Wolfhart -- Pantheism -- Paradigm -- Parity Arguments -- Pascal, Blaise -- Patriarchy, Matriarchy -- Peirce, Charles Sanders -- Pelagianism -- Perception -- Perfection -- Personalism -- Personhood -- Phenomenology -- Philosophical Theology -- Philosophy -- Philosophy Of Religion -- Physicalism -- Plantinga, Alvin -- Plato -- Plotinus -- Polanyi, Michael -- Polytheism -- Positivism -- Possible Worlds -- Postmodernism -- Pragmatism -- Prayer -- Predestination -- Predication (analogical, Univocal, Equivocal) -- Presuppositionalism -- Process Theology -- Prophecy -- Providence -- Public Square -- Puritanism -- Rational -- Rationalism -- Realism -- Reason -- Redemption -- Reductionism -- Reformed Epistemology -- Reformed Tradition -- Reid, Thomas -- Reincarnation -- Relativism -- Religious Experience -- Religious Language -- Resurrection -- Retribution -- Revelation -- Ricoeur, Paul -- Romanticism -- Rorty, Richard -- Rousseau, Jean-jacques -- Russell, Bertrand Salvation -- Sartre, Jean-paul -- Schaeffer, Francis -- Schleiermacher, Friedrich -- Scholasticism -- Science -- Scientism -- Scotus, John Duns -- Secularism -- Self -- Sexuality -- Sign -- Simplicity -- Sin -- Skepticism -- Smith, Wilfred Cantwell -- Social Trinitarianism -- Socrates -- Sola Fides -- Sola Gratia -- Sola Scriptura -- Solipsism -- Soul -- Sovereignty -- Special Revelation -- Spinoza, Baruch -- Stoicism -- Strauss, David Friedrich -- Structuralism -- Subjectivism -- Substance -- Sufficient Reason, Principle Of -- Supererogation -- Swinburne, Richard -- Symbol -- Tacit Knowledge -- Taoism -- Teleological Argument -- Tertullian -- Theistic Arguments -- Theistic Attributes -- Theodicy -- Theology -- Thomism -- Tillich, Paul -- Time -- Timelessness -- Tolerance -- Torrance, Thomas F. -- Tradition -- Transcendence -- Transcendental Argument -- Transcendentalism -- Transcendentals -- Transubstantiation -- Trinity -- Truth -- Universalism -- Univocal -- Utilitarianism -- Van Til, Cornelius -- Verification Theory Of Meaning -- Virtue -- Voluntarism -- Wager Argument -- Weil, Simone -- Westphal, Merold -- Whitehead, Alfred North -- Wicca -- Will To Believe -- Wittgenstein, Ludwig -- Wolterstorff, Nicholas -- Worldview -- Worship -- Zen Buddhism -- Zoroastrianism. C. Stephen Evans. For philosophers, the pursuit of truth travels on precise definitions. For Christian apologists, the defense of the faith is founded on the defining Word. And for beginning students of either discipline, the difference between success and frustration begins with understanding the terms and ideas and identifying the thinkers and movements.The Pocket Dictionary of Apologetics Philosophy of Religion is designed to be a companion to your study of these two related disciplines. Among its 300 entries areterms, from a posteriori to worldviewapologists, from Abelard to Van Tilphilosophers of religion, from Alston to Wolterstorffmovements, from analytic philosophy to voluntarismapologetic arguments, from the cosmological to the wagertheologies, from Arminianism to ZoroastrianismHere is an affordable and easily accessible'help key'for your readings, lectures, writing assignments and exam preparation. It's a must-have study aid for any student who expects to cogitate on coherentism or ruminate on Ricouer.Designed for students and pastors alike, the short and accessible volumes in the IVP Pocket Reference Series will help you tackle the study of biblical languages, church history, apologetics, world religions, Christian spirituality, ethics, theology, and more. Annotation For philosophers, the pursuit of truth travels on precise definitions. For Christian apologists, the defense of the faith is founded on the defining Word. And for beginning students of either discipline, the difference between success and frustration begins with understanding the terms and ideas and identifying the thinkers and movements. The Pocket Dictionary of Apologetics & Philosophy of Religion is designed to be a companion to your study of these two related disciplines. Among its 300 entries areterms, from a posteriori to worldviewapologists, from Abelard to Van Tilphilosophers of religion, from Alston to Wolterstorffmovements, from analytic philosophy to voluntarismapologetic arguments, from the cosmological to the wagertheologies, from Arminianism to ZoroastrianismHere is an affordable and easily accessible "help key" for your readings, lectures, writing assignments and exam preparation. It's a must-have study aid for any student who expects to cogitate on coherentism or ruminate on Ricouer "For philosophers, the pursuit of truth travels on precise definitions. For Christian apologists, the defense of the faith is founded on the defining Word. And for beginning students of either discipline, the difference between success and frustration begins with understanding the terms and ideas and identifying the thinkers and movements." "Here is an affordable and easily accessible "help key" for your readings, lectures, and writing assignments and exam preparation. It's a must-have study aid for any student who expects to cogitate on coherentism or ruminate on Ricouer."--BOOK JACKET Designed as a companion to the study of apologetics and philosophy of religion, this pocket dictionary by C. Stephen Evans offers 300 entries covering terms, apologists, philosophers, movements, apologetic arguments and theologies