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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... scripture , and over time the interpretations often have “ evolved " in quite dramatic and extensive ways . For example , not only does the Bible not condemn astrology , the story of the Magi following the star might seem to suggest ...
... scripture " understood not this . " Thus , he continued , “ Let us approach together unto the words of Thy book , and seek in them Thy meaning , through the meaning of Thy servant , by whose pen Thou hast dispensed them . " 16 Moreover ...
... scripture is a veil that must be penetrated . It is an accommodation to our present capacities ... [ that ] will one day be superseded . " 20 Thomas Aquinas ( 1225–1274 ) agreed : “ The things of God should be re- vealed to mankind only ...
... scriptures were wrongly ex- cluded from the New Testament by repressive Church leaders - writings now known as Gnostic gospels . The truth is that these scriptures were properly dismissed as a last - gasp effort to incorporate ...
... scriptures. Müller was only marginally interested in primitive religions, but he proposed that all religions, primitive or otherwise, arise because from earliest times humans have always been awed by the grandeur of nature. Naturism pro ...
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Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2009 |