Home›Core Tenets›Subject›Revelation and scriptureBrowse ByRevelation and scriptureThis page groups beliefs by what they are actually about. Wikipedia notes that "to believe something is to take it to be true; for instance, to believe that snow is white is comparable to accepting the truth of the proposition 'snow is white.'" Browsing by subject lets a visitor find every belief built around the same underlying topic.FactsLearn MoreRevelation and scriptureSourcesComments (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.Revelation and scriptureFilter Results31 entriesStatus Within the TraditionAllBinding, without a formal definition (22)Formally condemned by this tradition (1)Genuinely disputed within the tradition (3)Rejected, or not held, within this tradition (5)Standard teaching, not formally defined (6)Origin Period Start YearAll-29 (1)750 (1)800 (1)1253 (1)1647 (1)1830 (1)1863 (1)1881 (1)1934 (1)Affirmation OfAllContinuing Revelation (1)Inner Light (1)Progressive Revelation (1)Category of BeliefAllCore Tenets (13)TraditionAllAhmadiyya (1)Alawites (1)Alevism (1)American Humanist Association (1)Anabaptism (1)Assyrian Church of the East (1)Baptist (2)Beta Israel (2)Breslov Hasidism (1)Calvinism (Reformed) (2)Chabad-Lubavitch (1)Church of Scotland (1)Church of Sweden (1)Church of the Nazarene (1)Churches of Christ (1)Community of Christ (3)Divine Science (1)Dutch Reformed Church (1)Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church (1)Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (1)Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (2)Evangelicalism (2)Haredi Judaism (1)Ibadism (2)Ismailism (2)Karaite Judaism (1)Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) (2)Lutheranism (1)Modern Orthodox Judaism (1)Nation of Islam (1)National Baptist Convention of America (2)Nichiren (1)Nichiren Shoshu (1)Nyingma (1)Orthodox Judaism (1)Pentecostalism (2)Presbyterianism (2)Progressive National Baptist Convention (2)Protestantism (1)Quakerism (Religious Society of Friends) (1)Quranism (1)Religious Science (Centers for Spiritual Living) (1)Salafism (1)Seventh-day Adventism (2)Shakers (1)Shia (Twelver) (1)Shingon (1)Soka Gakkai (1)Sri Vaishnavism (1)Sufism (2)Sunni (1)Tendai (3)The Episcopal Church (1)Theravada (1)Tiantai (2)Unity (Unity School of Christianity) (1)Wahhabism (1)Zaidiyyah (2)ObligationAllObligatory (9)Undertaken only with authorisation or transmission (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 31A Solitary Report Is Weighed Against the Established Principles of the QuranRevelation and scriptureA Transmitted Report Outweighs Reasoning by AnalogyRevelation and scriptureAn Expanded Biblical Canon Including Enoch and JubileesRevelation and scriptureBiblical inerrancyRevelation and scriptureBoth the Sanskrit Vedas and the Tamil Hymns of the Alvars Are RevelationRevelation and scriptureCessation of the miraculous spiritual giftsRevelation and scriptureContinuing revelation through living prophetsRevelation and scriptureElijah Muhammad Is the Messenger of GodRevelation and scriptureEsoteric and exoteric teaching as oneRevelation and scriptureEsoteric interpretation of scripture (batin)Revelation and scriptureMahavairocana as the cosmic Buddha who preaches the DharmaRevelation and scriptureRejection of the Oral Torah (Talmud)Revelation and scriptureScripture alone (sola scriptura)Revelation and scriptureScripture as witness rather than as historyRevelation and scriptureScripture Is Read as Metaphysical AllegoryRevelation and scriptureTerma: teachings concealed and later revealed as treasureRevelation and scriptureThe Book of Mormon as additional scriptureRevelation and scriptureThe five periods and eight teachings as the order of the Buddha's preachingRevelation and scriptureThe Humanist Manifesto Is a Revisable Statement, Not a CreedRevelation and scriptureThe Inner LightRevelation and scriptureThe Lotus Sutra as the supreme teachingRevelation and scriptureThe Orit in Ge'ez Is Scripture and There Is No Talmudic LiteratureRevelation and scriptureThe Pali Canon (Tipitaka) as authoritative scriptureRevelation and scriptureThe Quran Alone Binds and Hadith Carries No Legal AuthorityRevelation and scriptureThe Quran is createdRevelation and scriptureThe Settled Practice of the People of Medina Is a Source of LawRevelation and scriptureThe Sources of Law Are Four and the List Is ClosedRevelation and scriptureThe Sunna Recorded in Hadith Is a Binding Source of LawRevelation and scriptureThe Torah is divinely revealed and bindingRevelation and scriptureThe unity of all religionsRevelation and scriptureTheodore of Mopsuestia as the Authoritative Interpreter of ScriptureRevelation and scriptureSources1. 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.