Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of BeliefHarper Collins, 17 ÁÕ.¤. 2009 - 498 ˹éÒ Winner of the 2008 Christianity Today Award of Merit in Theology/Ethics The History of God In Discovering God, award-winning sociologist Rodney Stark presents a monumental history of the origins of the great religions from the Stone Age to the Modern Age and wrestles with the central questions of religion and belief. |
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... humans condemned to live and die in ignorance, followed by many generations during which only the Chosen Few knew God? Or ... human imagination, that religion arises mainly from fear, and that faith is sustained only by ignorance and ...
... humans condemned to live and die in ignorance, followed by many generations during which only the Chosen Few knew God? Or ... human imagination, that religion arises mainly from fear, and that faith is sustained only by ignorance and ...
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... human inventions. The most famous proponent of this view was James Frazer (1854–1941), who published his monumental ... humans are inherently gullible, Frazer was content to postulate that once someone, somewhere had made up a “myth” or ...
... human inventions. The most famous proponent of this view was James Frazer (1854–1941), who published his monumental ... humans are inherently gullible, Frazer was content to postulate that once someone, somewhere had made up a “myth” or ...
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... human female. But seldom has anyone with respectable credentials considered the rather obvious possibility that these similarities may testify that authentic revelations underlie many of the major faiths. Instead, the dominating ...
... human female. But seldom has anyone with respectable credentials considered the rather obvious possibility that these similarities may testify that authentic revelations underlie many of the major faiths. Instead, the dominating ...
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... humans to understand. Even so, the chapters that follow are not significantly different from what I would have ... human beings and God. Hence, Jewish and Christian theologians have devoted centuries to reasoning about what God may ...
... humans to understand. Even so, the chapters that follow are not significantly different from what I would have ... human beings and God. Hence, Jewish and Christian theologians have devoted centuries to reasoning about what God may ...
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... human failings. A generation later, Origen (c. 185–251) wrote in On First Principles that “we teach about God both ... human comprehension and as his message has been misunderstood and erroneously transmitted. Moreover, if humans have ...
... human failings. A generation later, Origen (c. 185–251) wrote in On First Principles that “we teach about God both ... human comprehension and as his message has been misunderstood and erroneously transmitted. Moreover, if humans have ...
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