Terminology Tuesday: Materialism
The view that only material objects exist. Materialism is sometimes used as synonymous with physicalism, but some thinkers distinguish the two by allowing that physicalism holds th
Terminology Tuesday: Omnibenevolence
The quality of being completely good. Omnibenevolence is one of the traditional attributes of God and is thought to be necessarily possessed by a God who is perfect.
Terminology Tuesday: Liberation Theology
A theological movement that developed in Latin America in the 1960s, emphasizing the Gospel as a power that liberates oppressed peoples from unjust economic, political and social s
Terminology Tuesday: Communitarianism
Form of political philosophy traceable to G. W. F. *Hegel. Communitarianism rejects the liberal view that takes individual rights to be the foundation of society, putting in its pl
Terminology Tuesday: Ineffability
That which cannot be expressed in intelligible language. Many mystics have claimed that an experience of God is ineffable (though that has not stopped them from attempting to expla
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