Philosophy of Religion

Just as the boatman sits in his small boat, trusting his frail craft in a stormy sea that is boundless in every direction, rising and falling with the howling, mountainous waves, so in the midst of a world full of suffering and misery the individual man calmly sits, supported by and trusting the principium individuationis, or the way in which the individual knows things as phenomena.

Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I, §63, p. 353 [Dover Publications, 1966, E.F.J. Payne translation]

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
[Matthew 4:4]

Editorial Essays

• God after Kant [40.0K]

• What Would God Be? -- with a natural history of the gods [56.5K]
  • God as Love
  • The gods of Euripides

• Religion and Humanism, The Sophists to Secular Humanism [57.0K]
  • Why I am not a Christian
    • Bertrand Russell's "Why I Am Not a Christian"

• The Kant-Friesian Theory of Religion and Religious Value [29.1K]
  • Intuition and Mysticism in Kantian Philosophy [70.6K]
  • Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773-1843) [16.4K]
  • Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) [20.6K]
  • Rudolf Otto (1869-1937) [4.2K]
    • Rudolf Otto in Rem B. Edwards' Reason and Religion [7.9K]
  • Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) [19.9K]
    • Terms used in Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane [6.2K]

• The New Friesian Theory of Religious Value [16.4K]
  • Scientific Naturalism and Intelligent Design [8.2K]
  • Childhood's End, the Mystery of Order [29.7K]
  • Thought Experiments on the Soul [44.3K]
    • The Egyptian Soul
    • The Metaphysics of Nothing [21.7K]
  • Faith, Works, and Knowledge [18.3K]
  • The "Need to Know" and the Meaning of Life [22.2K]
  • Cause and Purpose, The World Turned Inside Out [17.5K]
  • Myth, Religion, and Philosophy [7.9K]
  • Religious Value and the Antinomies of Transcendence [16.1K]
  • Shame, Beauty, and the Ambivalence of the Flesh [12.6K]
    • Pornography [4.6K, 29.2K]
  • Religious Morality and Discrimination [22.3K]

• Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) [16.4K]

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) [26.1K]

• Existentialism [36.1K]

• Egyptian Royal Tombs of the New Kingdom [49.5K]

• Islâmic Fascism and Satyagraha in Palestine [33.1K]

To you I'm an atheist.
To God I'm the Loyal Opposition.

Woody Allen, Stardust Memories [1980]

• Christianity
  • Why I am not a Christian [57.0K]
    • Bertrand Russell's "Why I Am Not a Christian"
  • The Determination of Easter [34.3K]
  • Faith, Works, and Knowledge [18.3K]
  • Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels, Vintage Books, 1979, 1989, and Beyond Belief, the Secret Gospel of Thomas, Random House, 2003 [46.6K]
  • The Passion of the Christ: A Response to Critics, 2004 [14.8K]
  • The Bishops of Rome, the Popes, 42 AD-present [315.2K]
    • Patriarchal Index
    • Bishops of Rome and Popes
      • Patriarchs of Aquileia, Grado, and Venice [15.7K]
      • Archbishops of Canterbury
      • Archbishops of Milan [123.9K]
      • Archbishop-Electors of Mainz, Trier, and Cologne
      • Archbishops of Salzburg
    • Patriarchs of Constantinople
      • Primates of Russia, Metropolitans & Patriarchs of Kiev & Moscow [12.2K]
      • Latin Patriarchs of Constantinople
      • Armenian Patriarchs of Constantinople
    • Coptic Patriarchs of Alexandria
      • Melkite Patriarchs of Alexandria
      • Latin Patriarchs of Alexandria
      • Primates & Patriarchs of Ethiopia [25.0K]
    • Patriarchs of Antioch
      • Syrian Orthodox Patriarchs of Antioch
      • Maronite Patriarchs of Lebanon
      • Latin Patriarchs of Antioch
      • Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchs of Antioch
    • Patriarchs of Jerusalem
      • Armenian Patriarchs of Jerusalem
      • Latin Patriarchs of Jerusalem
      • Jerusalem in Sacred Geography
        • Purgatory
    • Patriarchs of Armenia
      • Patriarchs of the Great House of Cilicia
    • Patriarchs of the East

• Hinduism
  • The Fours Vedas and the Parts of the Vedas
    • The Thirteen Principal Upanis.ads with their associated Vedas, Brâhman.as and Âran.yakas
      • The Mân.d.ûkya Upanis.ad
    • The Caste System and the Stages of Life in Hinduism [10.4K]
  • The "Six Schools" of India [22.2K]
    • Karma, the Problem of Evil in India [26.0K]
  • Comments on the Bhagavad Gita
    • The Major and Minor Books of the Mahâbhârata and Synopsis [44.7K]
  • The Devotionalistic Gods in Hinduism [25.7K]
    • The 33 Gods of the Vedas
    • Cycles of Time in Hinduism and Buddhism
    • Excerpt from the Bhavis.ya Purân.a
  • Violence, Non-Violence, and Progress in History [40.2K]
  • The Calendar in India [92.5K]

• Buddhism
  • The Basic Teachings of Buddhism [105.0K]
  • Basic Buddhist Philosophical Doctrines
  • Stages in the History of Buddhism
    • Theravâda Buddhism
    • Mahâyâna Buddhism
    • Vajrayâna Buddhism
    • The Final Dharma Age
  • The Seven Lucky Gods of Japan [59.0K]
  • The "Six Schools" of Japan [27.8K]
  • Zen and the Art of Divebombing, or The Dark Side of the Tao [81.7K]

"Moe, a wise man once said, 'Religion's a good thing for good people and a bad thing for bad people.'"

Jonathan Kellerman, True Detectives [Ballantine Books, 2009, p.237]

Calendars

• The Century and the Millennium; Cardinalists vs. Ordinalists [43.1K]

• Traditional English Names of Full Moons, and the "Blue Moon"

• The Days of the Week [15.6K]
  • David Ewing Duncan's Calendar [Avon, 1998]

• The Determination of Easter [34.3K]

• The Greek Orthodox and Soviet Calendar Reforms [41.4K]

• Chronology and Julian Day Numbers for the Egyptian XII Dynasty [20.1K]
  • The Egyptian Calendar

• The Babylonian Calendar [92.5K]

• The Jewish and Moslem Calendars with the Era of Nabonassar

• Islâmic Dates with Julian Day Numbers

• The Jewish Calendar
  • The Jewish Eras of the World

• Groundhog Day and Chinese Astronomy [15.8K]

• The Solar Terms and the Chinese Calendar [21.7K]
  • The Chinese 60 Year Calendar Cycle
  • The Occurrence of the Solar Terms 1995-2009

• The Calendar in India
  • Cycles of Time in Hinduism and Buddhism [25.7K]

• Iranian Calendars

• The Mayan Calendar [86.7K]

• Julian Day Numbers for dates on the Gregorian and Julian Calendars [14.8K]

Reviews

• Bertrand Russell's "Why I Am Not a Christian," Why I Am Not a Christian and other essays on religion and related subjects, edited by Paul Edwards, A Touchstone Book, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1957 [57.0K]
• Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels, Vintage Books, 1979, 1989, and Beyond Belief, the Secret Gospel of Thomas, Random House, 2003 [46.6K]
• The Passion of the Christ: A Response to Critics, 2004 [14.8K]

Humor

• A Short Guide to Comparative Religions [2.9K]

Contributed Essays

• Emptiness and the Institutional Suicide of Chinese Buddhism, by Neal Donner [39.1K]

• Mysticism and the Idea of Freedom: A Libertarian View, by Neal Donner, Ph.D. [91.1K]

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