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De Carne Christi (c. 203–206, 'On the Flesh of Christ ') is a polemical work by Tertullian against the Gnostic Docetism of Marcion, Apelles, Valentinus and Alexander.It purports that the body of Christ was a real human body, born from the virginal body of Mary, but not by way of human procreation.
Credo quia absurdum is a Latin phrase that means "I believe because it is absurd", originally misattributed to Tertullian in his De Carne Christi.It is believed to be a paraphrasing of Tertullian's "prorsus credibile est, quia ineptum est" which means "it is completely credible because it is unsuitable", or "certum est, quia impossibile" which means "it is certain because it is impossible".
Absurdism is a concept in philosophy related to the notion of absurdity. The term absurdity has been used throughout history regarding foolishness and extremely poor reasoning to form beliefs. [ 4 ] In Aristophanes ' 5th century BC comedy The Wasps , his protagonist Philocleon learned the "absurdities" of Aesop's Fables , considered to be ...
Herbert Spencer, System of Synthetic Philosophy, 1862–1892; Karl Marx, Das Kapital, 1867–1894; John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill, The Subjection of Women, 1869; William Stanley Jevons, The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method, 1874; Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics, 1874
A priori and a posteriori; A series and B series; Abductive reasoning; Ability; Absolute; Absolute time and space; Abstract and concrete; Adiaphora; Aesthetic emotions
Fideism (/ ˈ f iː d eɪ. ɪ z əm, ˈ f aɪ d iː-/ FEE-day-iz-əm, FAY-dee-) is a standpoint or an epistemological theory which maintains that faith is independent of reason, or that reason and faith are hostile to each other and faith is superior at arriving at particular truths (see natural theology).
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Philosophy and theology shape the concepts and self-understanding of canon law as the law of both a human organization and as a supernatural entity, since the Catholic Church believes that Jesus Christ instituted the church by direct divine command, while the fundamental theory of canon law is a meta-discipline of the "triple relationship ...