Herbert of Cherbury first articulated the five catholic truths. Herbert believed that rather than there being one true religion, religious truths can be found in all religions. From a historical perspective, he did a comparative analysis, so to speak, of various persuasions and concluded the existence of a universal providence that possibly arose via conscious consideration of nature, astronomy in particular.
The five truths are perhaps so well known that they do not need repeating, but I cannot name them and had to search it elsewhere online. This chapter does not cite them specifically, which is curious to me. There is a specific reference to them on page 36, but in that reference, I am not sure how to count them properly because as I read it there are either 4 or 6.
So, for those of you who are not familiar with the five catholic truths, here they are:
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Okay, this has proven to be a particularly difficult search. I do not understand why this is so. I just want a simple list, but each of the google hits require a fair bit of reading and a bit of deduction. What is going on? What am I missing?
January 13, 2010 at 1:20 am |
There are also five fundamentals of Protestant fundamentalism:
The five fundamentals that they insisted absolutely had to be affirmed were the following: 1) the literal inerrancy of Holy Scripture; 2) the divinity of Jesus Christ; 3) the virgin birth; 4) Christ’s act of reconciliation on our behalf; and 5) Christ’s bodily resurrection from the dead and his second coming.
From:
http://freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1215803&sid=4b1eb6d42872103d3fdbb6d74d3cc4b7