Religious Thought in the Reformation

Theology and Religious Thought

The Inside and Outside: Religious Experience and Religious Thought

My purpose in this essay is to explore religious experience and religious thought and the relation between the two, for how these two are conceived has an important bearing on how we understand the meaningfulness of religion and religious traditions. My starting point is Peter Berger's recent work. The Heretical Imperative (Anchor/Doubleday, 1980), in which he summarizes the various strategies ...

Discourse Analysis of the Reformation of Religious Knowledge in the Constitutional Age (Case Study: The Holy Spirit(

The confrontation of Iranian intellectuals with the Western civilization of the constitutional age led to the acceptance of Western ideas by the elites at this historical juncture, which had emerged as traditionalist, modernist discourses and reformed religious knowledge. This article seeks to recognize the characteristics of the Discourse of Religious Knowledge Reform in the Holy Spirit. Criti...

Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World: An Alternative History of the Reformation

Review Number: 1984 Publish date: Thursday, 8 September, 2016 Author: Nicholas Terpstra ISBN: 9781107652415 Date of Publication: 2015 Price: £69.99 Pages: 352pp. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publisher url: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/european-history-after-1450/religious-refugeesearly-modern-world-alternative-history-reformation?format=PB Place of Publication:...

Cognitive mechanisms for the evolution of religious thought.

The reasons behind the cultural persistence of religious beliefs throughout human history and prehistory still generate unanswered questions requiring scientific explanations. Within the framework of the cognitive science of religion, this article reviews experimental evidence supporting human predisposition for religious thinking and focuses on the hypothesis that a reason why religious belief...