RT Book
T1 Religious inventions: four essays
A1 Charlesworth, M.
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 1997
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/883410311
AB 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.
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
CN BL50
SN 9780511621529
K1 Religious invention : Case studies.
K1 Religious invention : Case studies
K1 Religious invention ; Case studies
DO 10.1017/CBO9780511621529