scholarly journals Descriptive currents in philosophy of religion for Hebrew Bible studies

2011 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacobus W. Gericke
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Comparative Philosophy ◽  
Natural Theology ◽  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Propositional Justification ◽  
Bible Studies ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
History Of

This article argued that the utilisation of philosophy of religion in the study of the Hebrew Bible is possible if we look beyond the stereotype of erroneously equating the auxiliary field with natural theology, apologetics or atheological criticism. Fruitful possibilities for interdisciplinary research are available in the form of descriptive varieties of philosophy of religion primarily concerned with understanding and the clarification of meaning rather than with the stereotypical tasks of propositional justification or critical evaluation. Three examples are discussed in the article: analytic traditions (Wittgensteinianism and ordinarylanguage philosophy), phenomenological perspectives involving reduction (bracketing) and comparative philosophy of religion that works in tandem with the history of religion and comparative religion.

Troeltsch, Ernst Peter Wilhelm (1865–1923)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Loup Seban
Keyword(s):  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Protestant Reformation ◽  
Scientific Culture ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ernst Troeltsch

Ernst Troeltsch was a theologian, sociological historian, and philosopher of religion and history. He aimed to reconcile theology with modern scientific culture by grounding his philosophy of religion on historical analysis, and is regarded as the systematician of the ‘history of religion school’. He is famous for his critical appraisal of the Protestant Reformation, which, he argued, had retarded the development of modern culture.

scholarly journals Current Issues of Religious Studies in Ukraine

2004 ◽  
pp. 4-10
Author(s):  
Anatolii M. Kolodnyi
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Dynamic Phenomenon ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Absolute

In our literature, following Professor D. Ugrinovich, it is still customary to divide religious studies into theoretical and historical ones. It even found its name in the name of some religious departments, institutes. We will not discuss here the issue of the legitimacy of such a division. To me, the philosophy of religion is one of the disciplinary entities of religious studies, as is the history of religion. The main specificity of religious studies (as opposed to the study of religious phenomena by individual sciences) is that it studies religion not as a whole, but as a whole, in the organic totality of all its components and functions. Religion appears to him not as a static phenomenon, but as a dynamic phenomenon. The subject of religious studies is a functioning religion, and this functioning occurs through the interaction and interplay of all its components, and not with the absolute extinction of something in it in the change of historical eras, because religion has a prehistoric meaning.

scholarly journals Historioosophy of religion as knowledge of the historical nature of religion

2005 ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
Borys O. Lobovyk
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Nature

The History of Religion is a branch of religious studies that is on the verge of history and philosophy of religion. With regard to the latter, it has common and specific features. If history studies the origin and development of religion in its states and forms, if the philosophy of religion is intended to give a theoretical understanding of the essence and meaning of religion as such, then the historiography of religion is the doctrine of the historical nature of the phenomenon of religion taken in its entirety. In this sense, the historiography of religion can be called the phenomenology of religious studies.

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