Peter Harrison (‘Miracles, Early Modern Science, and Rational Religion’) stresses the unique importance of arepresentation of (historical) ‘religions’ in propositional terms for a properunderstanding of the background of the modern concept of ‘religion’. It locatesthe development of this propositional understanding of religion in the EuropeanReformations. For this essay write an essay on this vital subject.To be clear: what is meant by ‘propositional terms’ is the idea that a religion can(best) be summarized by way of a (small) set of ‘core ideas’ that are known, actuallybelieved, and capable of being analyzed and defended rationally.Please discuss how Harrison argues two things: first of all, that the modernunderstanding of religion depends on this propositional understanding of‘religion(s)’, and secondly, how he shows that this development is linked to thehistorical process of the protestant Reformations. Essentially, this is asking fora summary of a core line of development in the article.
