revealed religion
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.39 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The type of religion which relies on communication originating directly from a divine being (as reported by prophets, mystics, disciples, etc.) to establish what religious beliefs are authoritative and acceptable.
Uncountable
noun
A particular system of religious beliefs based on such communication from a divine being.
Countable
Example Sentences
- "I am in no wise anxious to weaken the antithesis between natural and revealed religion. Science may help the former, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the latter."
- "I avowed outright my entire disbelief in the whole scheme of revealed religion."
- "The pope praised Cardinal Newman . . . for “his insights into the relationship between faith and reason, into the vital place of revealed religion in a civilized society.”"
- "Cicero . . . destroyed the whole revealed religion of the Greeks and Romans (for why should not theirs be a revealed religion as well as that of Christ?)"
- ""The more I study these objections, the less able I am to see how they come in conflict with belief in Christianity as a revealed religion.""
- "But very few of the world's real thinkers believe in revealed religions any more—they have come to see them simply as guesses of humanity at God's great sacred mystery."