Christianity and other religions

Christianity and other religions documents Christianity's relationship with other world religions, and the differences and similarities. Quotes Evidence about the antiquity of some of the other religions, particulary the Egyptian, Chinese and Hindu, presented problems for Christian apologists. Critics of Christian belief use this evidence in two ways. Some employ it to challenge the truth of the Biblical materials. Sir William Jones might confess that since he is ‘attached to no system’, he can accept or reject ‘the Mosaick history’ according to the evidence. Those who, as believers, see themselves as fundamentally committed to some understanding of Christianity tend to assume that Christian faith involves assent to what the Bible records. They regard it as necessary, therefore, to uphold the Biblical story whatever the apparent evidence from other religions;75 otherwise, as Voltaire points out, those who maintain that ‘God dictated’ the Bible will have to admit that ‘God evidently is not an expert in chronology’.”* Attitudes to Other Religions: Comparative Religion in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Britain 1984 : David Arthur Pailin.56 During the fourth and fifth centuries, neoplatonism and along with it, at several removes, the most valuable elements of Hindu religion, entered Christianity and became incorporated, as one of a number of oddly heterogeneous elements, into its scheme of thought and devotion. Huxley, Aldous - Grey Eminence Konkō Kyō not only declares itself as monotheism but, at the same time, repudiates all ordinary superstitious beliefs and practices so widely prevalent among the nation at large, such as the selling and the wearing of charms and the use of exorcisms, divinations, and formal, repetitious prayers. Its founder, like Jesus of Nazareth, began life as a simple peasant and, like Jesus, Kawate Bunjirō eventually came to the conviction that the great Father of All Life had come to self-knowledge in himself. Chronologically Konkō Kyō is almost exactly coextensive with the history of Christianity in modern Japan. Its study affords material that is remarkably suggestive in making comparison with the progress of the Christian movement. Holtom D. C. Konkō Kyō: A Modern Japanese Monotheism The Journal of Religion 13 3 1933 0022-4189 10.1086/481319 279–300 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/481319 pp. 280-1. External links