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Originally Posted by whswhs
On the other hand, there are belief systems that have only one or the other: There's very little Philosophy to Biblical literalism and very little Theology to logical positivism (though its antecedent, Comte's positivism, had something called the Religion of Humanity attached to it).
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I'd tend to call Biblical literalism on the philosophy side - there's often quite a lot of semantic hairsplitting and subtle analogy involved in going from the actual words to a particular "literalist" interpretation.
To the degree there is a difference, theology covers the stuff that involves emotion, pageantry and just-so stories that might be left out of the philosophical version of a religion, but there's lots of overlap.