All the -isms
| position | era | |
|---|---|---|
| empiricism | Enlightenment | The only things that can be known are those composed of matter-energy in spacetime that are observable and measurable through the senses as extended by the instruments of science. Locke and Hume. |
| rationalism | Enlightenment | Reason sets the boundaries to what can be believed. |
| positivism | ||
| linguistic criticism | Better known as "linguistic analysis," but that doesn't fit the pigeonhole of "all the -isms." | |
| pietism | ||
| Protestantism | ||
| Catholicism | ||
| modernism | ||
| egalitarianism | ||
| existentialism | ||
| scientism | ||
| evidentialism | ||
| pragmatism | ||
| scholasticism | ||
| mathematicism | ||
| idealism | ||
| liberalism | ||
| conservatism | ||
| traditionalism | ||
| Marxism | ||
| Kantianism | ||
| Thomism | ||
| gnosticism | ||
| agnosticism | ||
| fideism | ||
| fundamentalism | ||
| literalism | ||
| theism | ||
| pantheism | ||
| atheism | ||
| historicism | ||
| animism | ||
| monism | ||
| creationism | ||
| biblical criticism | ||
| terrorism | ||
| quietism | ||
| mysticism | ||
| nominalism | ||
| Jansenism | ||
| perfectionism | ||
| minimalism | ||
| materialism | ||
| spiritualism | ||
| rubricism | ||
| clericalism | Modernity | "The essence of clericalism is a certain mindset, a way of thinking about persons, relationships, and roles within church settings. The clericalist mindset assumes that priests (and, to a lesser degree, religious) are always the people in charge—the natural decision-makers, direction-setters, and initiators of action in the Church. Lay people make up a permanent ecclesiastical under-class. They are by nature passive and subservient, in need of clerical direction."[1] |