Sacred History

Core tenets that state what the tradition holds actually happened: a founding event, a divine intervention in history, a covenant made at a particular moment, or the reality of a miracle or historical episode central to the faith. This includes tenets asserting the historicity of an event such as an exodus, a revelation event, a resurrection or a covenant-making, as distinct from tenets about what that event means theologically. A tenet about the ongoing meaning or doctrinal consequence of such an event, rather than the historical claim that it occurred, is better read alongside the doctrine it grounds, such as salvation and liberation or the nature of the divine.