Final Outline for "Evolution of Worship & Religion" by R.E. Slater

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The Gnostic Mysterion: the Crisis of Sacred Becoming (SM 12)

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Evolution of Worship & Religion

• Introduction
• Maps, Tables & Data
• A Proposed Outline
• Resources

• Part I - Foundations: The Birth of the Sacred
• Essay 1 - Animism and the Living Cosmos
• Essay 2 - From Tribe to Totem

• Part II - The Age of Gods
• Essay 3 - The Mesopotamian Fertile Crescent
• Essay 4 - Egypt, Indus, and Minoa Sacred Cultures
• Essay 5 - From Polytheism to Henotheism

• Part III - Axial Awakenings
• Essay 6 - Ancient Israel, Persia, and Monotheism
• Essay 7 - India's Axial Age
• Essay 8 - Greece and the Birth of Reason

• Part IV - The Sacred Made Universal
• Essay 9 - The Age of Universal Religions
• Essay 10 - Modernity and the Eclipse of the Sacred
• Essay 11 - The Rebirth of the Sacred

• Part V - Conclusion of Series
• Essay 12 - A Processual Summation of Worship and Religion
• Essay 13 - The Way of Cruciformity: When God Refused Power
• Essay 14 - Messiah: From Anointed Saviour to Suffering Sacred
• Essay 15 - Becoming Aligned with the Sacred

• Part VI - Supplementary Materials
• SM 1 - The Ancient History of Mesopotamia
• SM 2 - The History of Language in Ancient Mesopotamia
• SM 3 - The Ancient History of the Hebrew Language
• SM 4 - How the Ancient Near East Gave Shape to Israel's God:
• Why the ANE is Essential for Israel's Received Theology (I-II)
• Affecting Cultic Syncretism Across the Ancient Near East (III-V)
• Cultural Identity Formation & the Rejection of Syncretism (VI-IX)
• SM 5 - The History & Compilation of the Hebrew Bible:
• From Oral Memory to Proto-Canon (I-II)
• Exile, Redaction, and the Birth of Scripture (III)
• Second Temple Scribalization to Canonization (IV-V)
• SM 6 - The Unhelpful Oxymorons of "Biblical Authority" & "Inerrancy"
• SM 7 - The Evolution of Inerrancy: From Ancient Plurality to Modern Certainty
• SM 8 - A Historical-Theological Study of "Son of Man" vs "Son of God"
• SM 9 - The Song of Gilgamesh & Other Ancient Flood Stories
• SM 10 - Isaiah as a Living Textual Tradition: Manuscripts, Variants &Transmission
• SM 11 - From Scroll to Scripture: Bible Versions, Variants & their Histories
• SM 12 - The Gnostic Mysterion: the Crisis of Sacred Becoming

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