Power, Justice And Love

"The Problem of Pain."

Peter Berg:

"'...religions evolve. The primitive faiths see God, or the gods, as power; the higher ones see Him as justice; the highest see Him as love.'" (p. 37)

I can offer a couple of other histories of religion.

(i) Personification of natural forces.

Personification of social forces.

Unification of personified forces.

Understanding replacing personification.

(ii) Monotheism as the content of prophetic traditions but as a phase in contemplative traditions. See Traditions.

Because I am interested in the history of religion and in the practice of contemplation, I tend to respond when Poul Anderson's characters discuss such issues which happens quite often.