Concept
Christianity
Overview
Abrahamic monotheistic religion
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Possible passages
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"Salvation is of the Jews."--Christianity is the formula for exceeding _and_ summing up the subterranean cults of all varieties, that of Osiris, that of the Great Mother, that of Mithras, for instance: in his discernment of this fact the genius of Paul showed itself. His instinct was here so sure that, with reckless violence to the truth, he put the ideas which lent fascination to every sort of Chandala religion…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Antichrist
States what Christianity is; names Christianity several times.
From this point of view the gospels are documents of the highest value; and the Book of Enoch is still more so. Christianity as sprung from Jewish roots and comprehensible only as grown upon this soil, represents the counter-movement against that morality of breeding, of race and of privilege:—it is essentially an anti-Aryan religion: Christianity is the transvaluation of all Aryan values, the triumph of Chandala…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Twilight of the Idols
States what Christianity is; the author is tied to Christianity in the knowledge graph.
The very fact that the latter were national religions precluded them, to a certain extent, from incorporating alien ideas. It was not only mediæval Christianity that took over a large part of the earlier belief of heathen peoples. Even present-day Christianity might doubtless be called a world religion in this sense, among others, that, in the various forms of its beliefs and professions, it includes within itself…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
Names Christianity several times.
Philosophers who discussed Christianity
- Edmund Burke
- Epicurus
- Józef Maria Bocheński
- Étienne Cabet
- Madhvacharya
- Max Stirner
- Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)
- Ernst Troeltsch
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Thomas Carlyle
- Giordano Bruno
- René Girard
- William Godwin
- The Ego and Its Own
- Roberto Mangabeira Unger
- Damascius
- Slavoj Žižek
- Peter van Inwagen
- Ammonius Hermiae
- Ammonius Saccas
- Al-Farabi
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Simone Weil
- Max Weber
Related ideas
- Manchester University Press
- Eusebius
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Ritual
- Evangelicalism
- First Crusade
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Yale University Press
- Armenia
- Jesus
- God in Christianity
- Turkey
- Hellenistic Judaism
- BBC News
- Francis of Assisi
- Greek language
- Greece
- Anglicanism
- G. K. Chesterton
- Gnosticism
- Gospel of Luke
- Gospel of Matthew
- Gospel of John
- Stanford University Press
Opposing perspectives
- Process philosophy
- Secularization
- Nous
- Eastern Christianity
- Incorporeality
- Reformism
- Religious cosmology
- Non-denominational
- Burton L. Mack
- Positivist calendar
Place in the tradition
Part of Ancient Greek philosophy.