Category: Philosophy of Religion

David Hume’s Philosophical Critique of Theology and its Significance for the History of Christian Thought (1972) [REVISED]

Dissertation Abstracts International, February 1973, Volume 33, Number 8, Segment A: The Humanities and Social Sciences (Xerox University Microfilms, Xerox), pp.4467-A and 4468-A. The dissertation was defended and approved on the 8th of August of 1982, before a Dissertation Committee composed by Profs. Drs. Wilfrid Sellars, Richard Gale, Joseph Kemp, George Kehm and William Warren… Read More David Hume’s Philosophical Critique of Theology and its Significance for the History of Christian Thought (1972) [REVISED]

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Abstract of my Ph.D. Thesis on David Hume

Dissertation Abstracts International, February 1973, Volume 33, Number 8, Segment A: The Humanities and Social Sciences (Xerox University Microfilms, Xerox), pp.4467-A and 4468-A. DAVID HUME’S PHILOSOPHICAL CRITIQUE OF THEOLOGY AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN THOUGHT Eduardo O. C. Chaves, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 1972 ABSTRACT Commentators on Hume often say that Hume’s… Read More Abstract of my Ph.D. Thesis on David Hume

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David Hume and Religion: A Talk (in Portuguese)

Below, my class of almost three hours — unfortunately, for the English speakers, in Portuguese — about “David Hume and Religion”, taught, on 3-Mar-2019, in the course “Philosophy of Religion”, in the Graduate Program of Religion of the Methodist University of São Paulo (which, curiously, is not located in the city of São Paulo, but… Read More David Hume and Religion: A Talk (in Portuguese)

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David Hume and the Great Divide between Traditional and Modern Thought about God

[ This article, “David Hume and the Great Divide Between Traditional and Modern Thought about God”, was presented on the Third Annual Conference on “God: The Contemporary Discussion”, sponsored by the New Ecumenical Research Association (New ERA), San Juan, Porto Rico, from 30- December-1983 thru 4-January-1984 ] o O o Peter Gay once mentioned that… Read More David Hume and the Great Divide between Traditional and Modern Thought about God

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