Timeline for What is the origin of the "religion vs. relationship" dichotomy?
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| Dec 5, 2019 at 14:59 | answer | added | Lionsden | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 4, 2019 at 14:15 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | @curiousdannii I will await Nathaniel's response. | |
| Dec 4, 2019 at 13:33 | comment | added | curiousdannii♦ | @Korvin I doubt anyone seriously thinks Christianity isn't actually a religion as it is typically defined - this is only a rhetorical redefinition to highlight something particular. | |
| Dec 3, 2019 at 23:54 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | Would I be correct in assuming that you are not interested in a challenge to the frame, that it can be both, and it need not be framed as either / or? | |
| Dec 3, 2019 at 19:02 | answer | added | GratefulDisciple | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 16, 2019 at 23:27 | answer | added | Internet User | timeline score: -1 | |
| Mar 27, 2019 at 13:39 | comment | added | Kevin | I think anyone who talks about such a dichotomy is necessarily talking about "false religion", "mere religion" and the like. If not, can you give an example of such a theologian, let alone the first one? Billy Graham was certainly an evangelist; not sure he was a theologian, and I'm pretty sure he'd agree that a relationship with God requires religion (you can't have a relationship with God apart from having at least some right beliefs about God). E.g., Graham wouldn't say of a Muslim, "If he has a relationship with God, that's enough." | |
| Mar 24, 2019 at 4:39 | comment | added | davidlol | @NigelJ Your Ngram may reflect the increasing proportion of novels and secular books particularly during the nineteenth century. Religion may appear less frequently simply due to a lower proportion of books being about religion as more and more books not about religion were published. | |
| Mar 23, 2019 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackChristian/status/1109469938136297473 | ||
| Mar 23, 2019 at 6:01 | comment | added | GratefulDisciple | Let's also distinguish relationship between God to the chosen people vs. God to an individual believer. In the OT books that are for sure written during the Persian period or earlier, the relationship is corporate, but starting with the Hellenistic period, it grows more personal, so by New Testament it's a good mix. I would say that nowadays 'religion' has a corporate worship connotation, (with its liturgy and ritual) while 'relationship' is individual. But it's artificial and as Christians we have to have both. | |
| Mar 23, 2019 at 2:20 | comment | added | Nigel J | The declining use of the word 'religion' itself is interesting, over the past two hundred and fifty years. Ngram. | |
| Mar 23, 2019 at 0:43 | comment | added | Nathaniel is protesting | Related, focusing on how this dichotomy is understood in evangelicalism: What do Evangelicals who speak negatively of “religion” mean by that? | |
| Mar 23, 2019 at 0:41 | history | asked | Nathaniel is protesting | CC BY-SA 4.0 |