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Philosophy of religion

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Paul Helm
J.I. Packer Professor of Theology and Philosophy, Regent College, Vancouver. Author of The Providence of God and Faith and Understanding.
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Philosophy of religion, discipline concerned with the philosophical appraisal of human religious attitudes and of the real or imaginary objects of those attitudes, God or the gods. The philosophy of religion is an integral part of philosophy as such and embraces central issues regarding the nature and extent of human knowledge, the ultimate character of reality, and the foundations of morality. Philosophical interest in religion may be said to have originated in the West with...

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