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Key concepts: Theocentrism, Creationism, «Creatio ex nihilo», Apologetics,
Patristic (Patrology), Scholasticism, Anthropocentrism, Humanism, Pantheism.

Basic concepts

Theocentrism - any philosophical problem is studied in the context of God.
Creationism - is the idea of creation by God from nothing, God creates not
generating. He creates out of nothing.

«Creatio ex nihilo» – creation from nothing: the doctrine that only a free act of
the Creator
Apologetics – in theology, the attempt to show that a faith is either provable by

reason, or at least consistent with reason. More generally, the attempts to defend a
doctrine.
Patristics or Patrology is the study of the Early Christian writers who are

designated Church Fathers.
Scholasticism – philosophic and theological movement that attempted to use
natural human reason, in particular, the philosophy and science of Aristotle, to
understand the supernatural content of Christian revelation.

Anthropocentrism – the belief that human beings are the most important entity
in the universe Anthropocentrism interprets or regards the world in terms of human

values and experiences.
Humanism – most generally, any philosophy concerned to emphasize human
welfare and dignity, and optimistic about the powers of unaided human
understanding. More particularly, the movement distinctive of the Renaissance and

allied to the renewed study of Greek and Roman literature a rediscovery of the unity
of human beings and nature, and a renewed celebration of the pleasures of life, all
supposed lost in the medieval world. Humanism in this Renaissance sense was quite

consistent with religious belief, it being supposed that God had put us here precisely
in order to further those things the humanists found important.
Pantheism – the belief that the universe (or nature as the totality of everything)

is identical with divinity, or that everything composes an all-encompassing,
immanent God.

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