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Religion, philosophy of
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1. Western variants

1.1. Terminological history

The term “philosophy of religion” is first attested in the title of a 1770 treatise by the German theologian Abraham Friedrich Rückersfelder [11]. Sigismund von Storchenau then used it in 1772 in his work Die Philosophie der Religion (“The Philosophy of Religion”) [15], before Karl Leonhard Reinhold introduced the term into the discussion of Immanuel Kant’s moral theology [10]. It began to be used frequently in the 1790s, and soon also in the s…

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Großhans, Hans-Peter and Kuße, Holger, “Religion, philosophy of”, in: Encyclopedia of Early Modern History Online, Editors of the English edition: Graeme Dunphy, Andrew Gow. Original German Edition: Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit. Im Auftrag des Kulturwissenschaftlichen Instituts (Essen) und in Verbindung mit den Fachherausgebern herausgegeben von Friedrich Jaeger. Copyright © J.B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH 2005–2012. Consulted online on 28 September 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2352-0272_emho_COM_026546>
First published online: 2015
First print edition: 20210601



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