Abstract
Modern religions are confronted by three crises: the scientific evolution, the historical revolution, and the pluralistic revolution. The development of each of these diverse revolutions in Western intellectual history has posed serious challenges to traditional conceptions of religious authority. This paper seeks to briefly elucidate the nature of each of these revolutions and their significance for religious traditions. While the specific challenges posed are separate, the revolutions share common traits. Additionally, it is not enough for a religious tradition to deal with only one of the crises; to proceed into the next stage of religious reflection, it must deal with them all.
Keywords
pluralisticrevolution, historical revolution, scientific revolution
How to Cite
Peterson, G., (1999) “The Three Crises: Science, History, and Plurality”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 34(4), 683–694. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/0591-2385.00246
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