THEOLOGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL
BIOGRAPHY AND GLOSSARY

Vaihinger, Hans
(1852-1933)
Hans Vaihinger

Hans Vaihinger

  • professor at Halle
  • Neo-Kantian
  • Wrote The Philosophy of As-If
  • All abstract ideas are useful fictions that serve as instruments of the will to live.
  • Knowledge is a means of orientation, prediction, and control in a world of sensations.
  • "Because our conceptual world is a product of the real world, it cannot be a reflection of the real world."
  • Knowledge does not reveal reality but helps us cope with it.

Valla, Laurentius
(1407-1457)
  • Italian Renaissance philologist
  • showed "Donation of Constantine" was spurious
VALUE
Van Buren
Van Dusen, Henry P.
(1897-1975)
  • US Presbyterian President of Union Seminary
  • ecumenical leader
Van Dyke, Henry
(1852-1933)
  • US Presbyterian pastor
  • professor at Princeton
Van Ruysbroeck
VanTil, Cornelius
(1895-1987)
Cornelius Van Til

Cornelius Van Til

  • Professor at Westminster
  • defender of Calvinistic orthodoxy
  • wrote
    1. Christian Apologetics
    2. An Introduction to Systematic Theology.

VARIATION
  • A factor in Darwin's principle of Natural selection.
  • Each generation produces differences of structure and function in organisms.
Varisco, Bernardino
(1850-1933)
  • Italian professor at Rome
  • wrote
    1. The Great Problems
    2. Philosophy of Spirit
  • spirit is ultimate reality but not same as Hegelian thought; man not only a purely physical being but also a spiritual one; all things (even inanimate things) have a kind of spiritual life of their own; emphasized on spirit as the agent of action, rather than merely thought; strong empirical emphasized
Varley, Henry
(1835-1912)
  • Non-denomination British preacher
Vaughan, Bernard J.
(1847-1922)
Bernard J. Vaughan

Bernard J. Vaughan

  • British Roman Catholic preacher

Vaughan, Charles John
(1816-1897)
Charles John Vaughan

Charles John Vaughan

  • Welsh Anglican
  • wrote commentaries on the Bible

Venerable
Venerable Bede
Venn, Sir Henry
(1725-1797)
  • Anglican pastor
  • His letters are available
VERIFIABILITY PRINCIPLE
  • The central principle of Logical Positivism.
  • A statement is true if there is some criteria by which we can verify the proposition or meaning it makes.
Vermigli, Peter Martyr
(1499-1562)
Peter Martyr Vermigli

Peter Martyr Vermigli

  • Italian reformer
  • wrote and taught in Switzerland, England, and France

Verona, Peter
(1205-1252)
Peter Verona

Peter Verona

  • AKA Peter the Martyr
  • Peter of Ravenna
  • Roman Catholic Dominican
  • assassinated by his enemies

Victor
Vinci
Vinet, Alexander
(1797-1847)
  • Swiss Reformed
  • theologian and preacher
Viret, Pierre
(1511-1571)
Pierre Viret

Pierre Viret

  • Swiss Reformed preacher

Visser 't Hooft, Willem Adolf
(1900-1985)
Willem Adolf Visser 't Hooft

Willem Adolf Visser 't Hooft

  • ecumenical leader
  • head of World Council of Churches

VITAL
VITALISM
  • Evolution is the product of an ever-present and inherent urge (entelechy) in all things.
Karl Christoph Vogt
(1817-1895)
Voltaire
(1694-1778)
Voltaire

Voltaire


VOLUNTARISTIC
VOLUNTARISTIC IDEALISM
von Frank, Franz Hermann Reinhold
(1827-1894)
  • German Lutheran apologist and theologian
von Harnack
von Staupitz
von Wesel, Johannes Ruchrath
Von Zinzendorf
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