Insofar as doctrines and dogmas represent conceptualizations of the human encounter with the divine mystery, they are bound to reflect the interplay of faith and reason in religious experience and to imply some notion of levels and stages in the progress of believers as they move from the threshold of faith toward its fulfillment. Doctrine is concerned with communication and consensus, with the exposure of the religious vision to rational probes and queries. There is, therefore, a tension in all religions between mystical intuition and logical articulation, between ... (100 of 3,116 words)The relation of faith, reason, and religious insight to doctrine and dogma
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Saint Jerome in His Study"/> Saint Jerome in His Study, fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1480; in the Church of Ognissanti, Florence.
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Adolf von Harnack, photographed during the 1920s.
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Moses leading the children of Israel through the Red Sea, 15th century; illustration from a German Bible.
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The Trinity represented by Christ as a man, the Holy Spirit as a dove, and God as a hand; Armenian miniature of the baptism of Jesus, 1273; in the Topkapi Museum, Istanbul.
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John Henry Newman, c. 1885.
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Young Tai pupils studying in a Buddhist monastery
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Philipp Melanchthon, engraving by Albrecht Dürer, 1526.
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Islam shares many beliefs with other western religions.