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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... nature, intentions, and demands, and on understanding how these define the relationship between human beings and God. Hence, Jewish and Christian theologians have devoted centuries to reasoning about what God may have really meant by ...
... nature, intentions, and demands, and on understanding how these define the relationship between human beings and God. Hence, Jewish and Christian theologians have devoted centuries to reasoning about what God may have really meant by ...
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... nature of its source, it is to be assumed that many illusory or even fraudulent religious claims have been advanced ... natural selection or survival of the fittest, which refers to the tendency for better- adapted organisms or cultural ...
... nature of its source, it is to be assumed that many illusory or even fraudulent religious claims have been advanced ... natural selection or survival of the fittest, which refers to the tendency for better- adapted organisms or cultural ...
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... natural selection requires two conditions that are met by both organisms and cultures: considerable variation across individual cases and a challenging environment. And just as biological survival selects for favorable variations ...
... natural selection requires two conditions that are met by both organisms and cultures: considerable variation across individual cases and a challenging environment. And just as biological survival selects for favorable variations ...
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... Nature,” since neither of them can hear, nor can they care. Hence, a major distinction: Supernatural refers to somewhat mysterious forces or entities that are above, beyond, or outside nature and which may be able to influence reality ...
... Nature,” since neither of them can hear, nor can they care. Hence, a major distinction: Supernatural refers to somewhat mysterious forces or entities that are above, beyond, or outside nature and which may be able to influence reality ...
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... nature and events. Real or not, such “somethings” are Gods. Variations in how God or the Gods are conceived is the crucial difference among faiths and cultures, as will be demonstrated beyond question in the chapters that follow ...
... nature and events. Real or not, such “somethings” are Gods. Variations in how God or the Gods are conceived is the crucial difference among faiths and cultures, as will be demonstrated beyond question in the chapters that follow ...
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