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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... Moses that he had made himself known to Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob , not as Yahweh , but as El Shaddai , " presumably this was because the Patriarchs were not ready to be told more.18 Or , when asked by his disciples why he spoke to ...
... Moses " was ordained a teacher as well of the un- learned and rude as of the learned , he could not otherwise fulfill his office than by descending to this grosser method of instruction .... [ Seeking to ] be intelligible to all ... Moses ...
... Moses ... [or] of Zoroaster. [These were] placed before us as a complete system from the first.”10 But the surviving Sanskrit literature goes back so far “that I have selected the ancient reli- gion of India to supply the historical ...
... Moses from a burning bush, or when Jesus appeared to Paul on the road to Damascus. Far more often, revelations involve only the sudden certainty that a par- ticular idea or interpretation is of divine origins, often based on the belief ...
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Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2009 |