Concept
Revelation
Overview
Revelation, or divine revelation, is the disclosing of some form of truth or knowledge through communication with God or other supernatural entities in the view of religion and theology.
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Possible passages
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"We have three principal forms of religion in Europe. One accepts one revelation, another two, and another three. Each hates the others, showers curses on them, accuses them of blindness, obstinacy, hardness of heart, and falsehood.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
Names Revelation several times; states what Revelation is.
Lastly, to the Prognostiques of time to come; which are naturally, but Conjectures upon the Experience of time past; and supernaturall, divine Revelation; the same authors of the Religion of the Gentiles, partly upon pretended Experience, partly upon pretended Revelation, have added innumerable other superstitious wayes of Divination; and made men believe they should find their fortunes, sometimes in the ambiguous…
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
States what Revelation is; the author is tied to Revelation in the knowledge graph.
(1) Prophecy, or revelation is sure knowledge revealed by God to man. (2) A prophet is one who interprets the revelations of God to those who are unable to attain to sure knowledge of the matters revealed, and therefore can only apprehend them by simple faith.
Benedictus de Spinoza, Theologico-Political Treatise — Part 1
States what Revelation is; names Revelation twice.
Philosophers who discussed Revelation
- Edmund Burke
- Paul Carus
- Ernst Troeltsch
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Karl Leonhard Reinhold
- Henri Bergson
- Ibn Hazm
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- John Locke
- Simone Weil
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Maimonides
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
- Philo
- Leo Strauss
- Thomas Aquinas
- Anselm of Canterbury
- René Descartes
- Reform Judaism
- Al-Kindi
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
- Thomas Hobbes
- Peter Abelard
- Paul Tillich
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- The Guide for the Perplexed
- Rabbinic Judaism
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Jesus
- God in Christianity
- Holy See
- Hinduism
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Halakha
- Abrahamic religions
- Abraham
- Vedas
- Judaism
- Jewish philosophy
- Biblical inspiration
- Christians
- Cosmology
- Muhammad
- Materialism
- Angel
- Catechism of the Catholic Church
- Maimonides
- Muslims
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Agnosticism.