THEOLOGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL
BIOGRAPHY AND GLOSSARY

IDEALISM

• Absolute Idealism
• Kantianism
• Objective idealism
• Subjective Idealism
• Voluntaristic idealism

IDENTITY, LAW OF

• Any entity is what it is and is not something else.

Ignatius of Antioch

(d. 117)

Ignatius of Antioch

• apostolic Father
• martyred
• He was condemned to fight wild beasts in Rome
• wrote a series of letters on the way to his death, including one to Polycarp, which is his shortest epistle
• in another epistle, Ignatius warned Polycarp and his congregation of the danger of a new theology, which was later named Docetism

Ignatius of Loyola

(1491-1556)

Ignatius of Loyola

• Spanish soldier wounded in war
• founded Society of Jesus (Jesuits).

Illingworth, John Richardson

(1848-1915)

• English Rector
• wrote
  1. Divine Immanence, Divine Transcendence
  2. Personality Human and Divine
• Absolute Idealism

IMMANENTISM

• God is directly concerned with the world.
• According to Radical Theology, God is immanent when man is responsibly involved in the world.

IMPERATIVE

• See Categorical imperative

IMPERATIVISM

• A non-cognitivist ethics

INDETERMINACY PRINCIPLE

• see Uncertainty Principle

INDETERMINISM

• see Libertarianism.

INDUCTIVE REASONING

• Reasoning from the particular to the general.
• Analytical method developed by Aristotle
• Compare Deductive reasoning

Inge, William Ralph

(1860-1954)

William Inge

• "the gloomy dean" of St. Paul's in London.

INNATE IDEAS

• Ideas not given in experience.
• You are born with them.
• All men possess innate ideas by virtue of their rational nature.

INSTRUMENTAL VALUE

• sometimes called Extrinsic Value.
• Value as a means to another end or value.

INSTRUMENTALISM

• A cognitivist ethic.
• See Experimentalism

INTERACTIONISM

• The theory that mind and body are separate realities that mutually influence each other.

INTRINSIC

• a priori theory of the intrinsic

INTRINSIC VALUE

• Value for its own sake, not as a means to an end or another value.

INTUITIONISM

• stresses the immediacy of knowledge or the self-evident character of certain ideas.
• Seen in Platonism
• Bergsonianism
• Cartesianism

Irenaeus

(c 130-200)

Irenaeus

• Early Church Father
• doctrine of recapitulation (Christ took human nature and His obedience restored what was lost through Adam's disobedience)
• wrote Against the Heresies

Ironside, Henry Allen

(1876-1951)

Henry Allen Ironside

• Brethren
• evangelist
• author
• pastor of Moody Memorial Church
• popularized dispensationalism
• method of preaching was explain, illustrate, apply

Irving, Edward

(1792-1834)

Edward Irving

• Scottish Presbyterian pastor
• assistant to Thomas Chalmers
• popularized premillennialism
• when he became a charismatic, he was asked to leave Church of Scotland
• followers organized the Catholic Apostolic Church.