Home›Core Tenets›Origin Period Start Year›By Century›19th centuryBrowse By19th centuryThis page groups beliefs by the era their classic formulation was fixed in. Wikipedia notes that thinkers have described beliefs "as representations of ways that the world could be (Jerry Fodor), as dispositions to act as if certain things are true (Roderick Chisholm)," each account tied to its own period. Browsing by origin period lets a visitor compare how old one belief's formulation is against another.FactsLearn More19th centurySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedThe central affirmations of a tradition, stated one at a time. What counts as a core tenet is set by each tradition, and traditions differ over whether assent to stated propositions is what makes a member: creedal Christianity and Islam draw such lists explicitly, while Judaism, Hinduism and most Indigenous traditions do not. 2StatusStanding as a Comparative CategoryWell-attestedUsed, but its validity as a comparative category is disputed 3DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedBeliefs & Restrictions 1ComparisonPrimary Academic DisciplineWell-attestedComparative Religion 4Learn MoreThe core tenets This group gathers the core tenets of the traditions, the central affirmations and defining beliefs that stand at the heart of a religion or worldview, the doctrines a tradition holds as essential to its identity. It is the largest belief grouping in the atlas. The browser will find the core tenets the atlas gathers from across the traditions. The entries describe each belief in its own terms, distinguishing what a tradition affirms of itself from the historical and comparative perspective of scholarship.19th centuryFilter Results13 entriesStatus Within the TraditionAllA minority position within the tradition (1)Binding, without a formal definition (11)Defined and binding within this tradition (2)Rejected, or not held, within this tradition (5)Standard teaching, not formally defined (1)Affirmation OfAllHalakha (1)Papal primacy and infallibility (1)Progressive Revelation (1)Category of BeliefAllCore Tenets (6)TraditionAllAhmadiyya (1)Baptist (1)Church of the Nazarene (1)Community of Christ (1)Conservative Judaism (1)Evangelicalism (1)Humanistic Judaism (1)Jehovah's Witnesses (1)Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) (1)Maronite Church (2)National Baptist Convention of America (1)Pentecostalism (1)Progressive National Baptist Convention (1)Reform Judaism (1)Roman Catholicism (2)Sect Shinto (1)Seventh-day Adventism (3)Shrine Shinto (1)Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (2)SubjectAllCommunity and its boundaries (1)Death, rebirth and destiny (1)Knowledge and reason (1)Religious authority and succession (4)Revelation and scripture (3)Ritual and worship (2)Sacred history: what happened (1)ObligationAllObligatory (3)Optional and voluntary (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 13Biblical inerrancy19th centuryHalakha is binding but evolves through scholarship19th centuryIndividual autonomy in observance19th centuryMirza Ghulam Ahmad as the promised Messiah and Mahdi19th centuryOrganized founder-led sects19th centuryPapal primacy and infallibility19th centurySeventh-day (Saturday) Sabbath19th centuryThe Book of Mormon as additional scripture19th centuryThe Immaculate Conception and bodily Assumption of Mary19th centuryThe imminent Second Coming of Christ19th centuryThe unity of all religions19th centuryWhether any god exists is unknown and may be unknowable19th centuryWorship centered on public shrines19th centurySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Encyclopedia of Religiontier 1Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005View the Source3. Belief, Language, and Experiencetier 1Rodney Needham, Basil Blackwell, 19724. Wikipedia: Comparative religiontier 2WikipediaComparative religion, opening definitionQuote, Comparative religion, opening definitionComparative religion is the branch of religious studies that systematically compares the doctrines, practices, themes and impacts (including migration) of the worlds religions.View the SourceDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.