Religious Inventions: Four Essays - Couverture rigide

Charlesworth, Max

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521590760 ISBN 13 : 9780521590761

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1997

Synopsis

This book argues for the diversity of religions and the human element in the development of religion.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Many scholars assume that all genuine religions are basically similar and that it is possible to define the sphere of religion in terms of the 'sacred' or the 'holy'. In this book, Max Charlesworth argues that we must take the diversity of religions as a primary fact. Any religion is an active response to a revelation of the divine, and human beings receive these revelations, interpret them and develop them in a variety of ways. To illustrate his thesis, he considers a number of examples of the 'invention' of religion, ranging from Australian Aboriginal religions to the Rhineland mystical movement associated with Meister Eckhart in the early fourteenth century, from the seventeenth-century sects like the Muggletonians, to Roman Catholic attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to construct a theological account of doctrinal development and also to formulate a Christian ethic.

Revue de presse

'This elegantly slim volume approaches fat and unwieldy issues of religious creativity ... This is an intelligent, wide-ranging and interesting book.' The Times Literary Supplement

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521590760
• ISBN 13: 9780521590761
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 170
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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