Home›Core Tenets›Subject›Sacred history: what happenedBrowse BySacred history: what happenedThis 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 MoreSacred history: what happenedSourcesComments (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.Sacred history: what happenedFilter Results5 entriesStatus Within the TraditionAllBinding, without a formal definition (3)Defined and binding within this tradition (2)Rejected, or not held, within this tradition (2)Standard teaching, not formally defined (1)The mainstream position, not formally binding (1)Origin Period Start YearAll700 (1)1854 (1)Affirmation OfAllResurrection (1)Category of BeliefAllCore Tenets (2)TraditionAllAfrican Methodist Episcopal Church (1)African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (1)Ahmadiyya (1)Amish (1)Anabaptism (1)Anglican Communion (1)Anglicanism (1)Armenian Apostolic Church (1)Assyrian Church of the East (1)Baptist (1)Calvinism (Reformed) (1)Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (1)Church of Cyprus (1)Church of England (1)Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) (1)Church of Greece (1)Church of Ireland (1)Church of Scotland (1)Church of Sweden (1)Church of the Nazarene (1)Churches of Christ (1)Community of Christ (1)Coptic Orthodoxy (1)Disciples of Christ (1)Dutch Reformed Church (1)Eastern Orthodoxy (1)Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (1)Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church (1)Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (1)Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (1)Evangelicalism (1)Free Methodist Church (1)Georgian Orthodox Church (1)Global Methodist Church (1)Greek Orthodox Church (1)Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) (1)Lutheranism (1)Maronite Church (2)Mennonites (1)Methodism (1)Moravian Church (1)National Baptist Convention of America (1)Old Believers (1)Oriental Orthodoxy (1)Parsi Zoroastrianism (1)Pentecostalism (1)Presbyterianism (1)Progressive National Baptist Convention (1)Protestantism (1)Quakerism (Religious Society of Friends) (1)Roman Catholicism (2)Romanian Orthodox Church (1)Russian Orthodox Church (1)Serbian Orthodox Church (1)Sethianism (1)Seventh-day Adventism (1)The Episcopal Church (1)The United Methodist Church (1)Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (2)Ukrainian Orthodox Church (1)Wesleyan Church (1)ObligationAllObligatory (2)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 5Descended from Zoroastrians who migrated to IndiaSacred history: what happenedJesus survived the crucifixionSacred history: what happenedSeth Is the Ancestor of a Saved Race and a RevealerSacred history: what happenedThe Immaculate Conception and bodily Assumption of MarySacred history: what happenedThe resurrection of ChristSacred history: what happenedSources1. 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.