The Pioneering Appearances ofPhilosophy of Religionin Europe: François Para du Phanjas on the Nature of Religion

• Authors: Vladimir K. Shokhin
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Philosophy is, in some sense, the self-reflection of general culture, and perpetual self-reflection has been a primary occupation of philosophy in the West. Consequently, self-reflection is of great importance for dividing philosophical fields into separate divisions, and philosophy of religion is no exception. This paper deals with a thinker who constructed a “philosophy of religion” as a discipline, but was overlooked by historians. The main achievements of François Para du Phanjas (1724-1797), who tried to offer a theory of religion in the theological context, have not lost their significance for today, especially his insights into epistemology of religious beliefs, his conception of “certainty” and classification of “religious evidences”, and the shortcomings of his analysis of “natural religion”.

Keywords

EN

François Para du Phanjas; Sigmund von Storchenau; philosophy of religion; natural religion; revealed religion; theology; deism; apologetics; scholasticism; evidence

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Open Theology
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1

Dates

received

2014-10-20

accepted

2014-11-24

online

2015-01-26

Contributors

author

Vladimir K. Shokhin

• Institute of Philosophy: Russian Academy of Sciences

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/opth-2014-0008