revealed religion

Definitions

1. 1

   The type of religion which relies on communication originating directly from a divine…

   The type of religion which relies on communication originating directly from a divine being (as reported by prophets, mystics, disciples, etc.) to establish what religious beliefs are authoritative and acceptable.

   • I am in no wise anxious to weaken the antithesis between natural and revealed religion. Science may help the former, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the latter.
   • I avowed outright my entire disbelief in the whole scheme of revealed religion.
   • The pope praised Cardinal Newman . . . for “his insights into the relationship between faith and reason, into the vital place of revealed religion in a civilized society.”
2. 2

   A particular system of religious beliefs based on such communication from a divine being.

   • Cicero . . . destroyed the whole revealed religion of the Greeks and Romans (for why should not theirs be a revealed religion as well as that of Christ?)
   • "The more I study these objections, the less able I am to see how they come in conflict with belief in Christianity as a revealed religion."
   • But very few of the world's real thinkers believe in revealed religions any more—they have come to see them simply as guesses of humanity at God's great sacred mystery.

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