The history of philosophy is usually told as a “Greek miracle”: in the sixth century BC, in the cities of Ionia, reason is supposed to have broken with myth and the sacred, so that to think has meant, ever since, to emancipate oneself from faith. This section starts elsewhere. Émile Bréhier already asked whether philosophy was born in the Ionian cities, as the tradition going back to Aristotle holds, or had older roots among Greek and Eastern peoples. Jean-Pierre Vernant observed that to date the birth of philosophy one would first need its definition, and the definition is precisely what is in dispute.
In Jonas Madureira’s philosophical training, the answer runs through a comprehensive conception of philosophy taken from Wilhelm Dilthey: the riddle of existence (where do I come from, why do I exist, what shall I be) faces human beings in every age with the same face, and the poet, the prophet and the thinker meet it in common. Philosophy does not begin where religion ends; it reaches, in Dilthey’s words, into the wide domains of theological speculation.
That is why the sources gathered here favour philosophy in conversation with faith: philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, the patristic and scholastic tradition, and the Greek and Latin inheritance the Church Fathers received. In his Saint Thomas Aquinas, Chesterton pictured man as a tree whose roots feed on the earth while its highest branches seem to rise almost to the stars. That is the philosophy a Pentecostal blog needs.
It is a directory of English-language sources, chosen for open access: what you can read in full, free, without an institutional login. Each name below opens a short guide: what the source is, how it serves those who think about faith, how to use it in daily study, and the link to go there.
Encyclopaedias and bibliographic databases
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — peer-reviewed and free. Covers authors Stanford has not yet reached, and is generally more introductory.
- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews — reviews commissioned from specialists within months of a book’s release. The fastest way to know what is worth reading.
- PhilPapers — the bibliographic index of philosophy: over three million records across some six thousand categories.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — the standard reference. Signed, editorially reviewed, and archived by version, which makes it citable.
Philosophy of religion and philosophical theology
- AGATHEOS — European Journal for Philosophy of Religion — Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion, with Uppsala and Gävle. Double-blind review, no fees.
- Faith and Philosophy — the journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers and the principal venue of analytic Christian philosophy.
- Journal of Analytic Theology — Christian doctrine handled with the precision instruments of analytic philosophy. Fully open access.
- TheoLogica — analytic, natural and philosophical theology, from the Université catholique de Louvain.
Primary texts and classical philosophy
- Corpus Thomisticum — the complete works of Thomas Aquinas in Latin, with critical text and concordance tools.
- Logeion — Liddell-Scott-Jones, Lewis & Short and Bailly in a single lookup, with frequencies and context.
- Perseus Digital Library — the Greek and Latin corpus in the original, with translation and word-by-word parsing.
Brazilian journals in conversation with faith (Basilíade, Horizonte, Síntese and Veritas), the classical-philosophy journal Archai and the country’s leading general philosophy journals (Analytica, Discurso, Dissertatio, Kriterion, Manuscrito and Trans/Form/Ação) are listed on the Portuguese version of this page. Several publish in English and all are open access.
Every address checked individually on 2 October 2026; section reorganised on 14 October 2026. If a link has gone dead, please say so through the contact form.
