Karen Armstrong contrasts ancient or pre-modern thinking about God and religion with modern views. She often prefers ancient views on the nature of God. According to her, for instance, modern monotheists believe that Revelation in scripture is fixed and that there are things we can know about God, but ancients (pre-modern believers, theologians) would not accept this. What did the ancients believe?

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9 December, 13:29

Karen Armstrong contrasts ancient or pre-modern thinking about God and religion with modern views. She often prefers ancient views on the nature of God. According to her, for instance, modern monotheists believe that Revelation in scripture is fixed and that there are things we can know about God, but ancients (pre-modern believers, theologians) would not accept this. What did the ancients believe?

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Ancients thought that Revelation was ongoing, it continued every time one opened oneself to a text, different and new interpretations are possible.

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For a time she was seen as a professional controversialist, condemning the Catholic church. But her writing and reflections on world religions have given her a new purpose following the September 11. Ancients believe there are always new interpretations on each book open not just one fixed interpretation of the facts