Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of BeliefHarper Collins, 2 ต.ค. 2007 - 496 หน้า Discovering God is a monumental history of the origins of the great religions from the Stone Age to the Modern Age. Sociologist Rodney Stark surveys the birth and growth of religions around the world—from the prehistoric era of primal beliefs; the history of the pyramids found in Iraq, Egypt, Mexico, and Cambodia; and the great "Axial Age" of Plato, Zoroaster, Confucius, and the Buddha, to the modern Christian missions and the global spread of Islam. He argues for a free-market theory of religion and for the controversial thesis that under the best, unimpeded conditions, the true, most authentic religions will survive and thrive. Among his many conclusions:
Most people believe in the existence of God (or Gods), and this has apparently been so throughout human history. Many modern biologists and psychologists reject these spiritual ideas, especially those about the existence of God, as delusional. They claim that religion is a primitive survival mechanism that should have been discarded as humans evolved beyond the stage where belief in God served any useful purpose—that in modern societies, faith is a misleading crutch and an impediment to reason. In Discovering God, award-winning sociologist Rodney Stark responds to this position, arguing that it is our capacity to understand God that has evolved—that humans now know much more about God than they did in ancient times. |
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... God , outside of specific contexts . Hence , this also is an interpretive history of the origins of the great religions . REVELATION AS DIVINE ACCOMMODATION Theology involves formal reasoning about God . The emphasis is on discov- ering ...
... God's words . This line of thought is entirely consistent with one of the most funda- mental , yet remarkably neglected , of all Judeo - Christian premises , that of Divine Accommodation , which holds that God's revelations are always ...
... God's tolerance of human failings . A generation later , Origen ( c . 185–251 ) wrote in On First Principles that “ we teach about God both what is true and what the multitude can understand . " Hence , " the written revelation in in ...
... God(s): Humans will tend to adopt and retain images of God(s) that appear to provide greater satisfactions, both subjective and ma- terial. Given this master trend, it follows that humans will prefer Gods to unconscious divine essences ...
... God of rain or of wind. A God that controls the weather everywhere on earth is of greater scope than a God whose control of weather is restricted to a small tribal area. Over the long run, the trend will be toward a conception of God(s) ...
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Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2009 |
Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2009 |