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Avery Dulles
Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society, Fordham University, New York City. Author of Models of Revelation and others.
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revelation, in religion, the disclosure of divine or sacred reality or purpose to humanity. In the religious view, such disclosure may come through mystical insights, historical events, or spiritual experiences that transform the lives of individuals and groups. Every great religion acknowledges revelation in the wide sense that its followers are dependent on the privileged insights of its founder or of the original group or individuals with which the faith began. These profound insights into...

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