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56:, whether this is a well written page, and whether it is notable in Knowledge (XXG) terms. On the first question, it seems like it's debatable whether the concept is shared among the cited religions, the second as noted isn't really a deletion rationale as has been noted, on the third it seems like there is no evidence. Thus delete, given that no sources have been provided (or even suggested) that discuss this topic. 824:, so poorly written, that at first I did not look at sources on the page, rather, I looked to see if I could source it. I just looked at that page and I am appalled. The Buddhism section is single sourced to a Welsh memoir about building Buddhism in Wales. The Judaism section is single sourced to a "collection of sermons and tracts" published in 1788. 1320:
The article is too simplistic to be in mainspace, but the general topic is viable. It needs rewriting by someone who understands the concept and how the various religions apply it--several such people have commented here. We did not 12 years ago have a good way to dealwith incomplete butpotentially
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and other religions. Without multiple independent reliable secondary sources, the article proposes an original idea: Scripture alone the source of authority is "a common aspect found in various religions." The idea appears to be plausible but Knowledge (XXG) is not a publisher of original thought
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I agree that deletion is not cleanup. If someone would like to write an article on religious textual literalism and provide sources to show the subject is generally notable, that's fine. What we have here is an article about scripture alone and I haven't found sources that make the subject pass
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Let's keep this to the point. From my experience in editing religious articles for three years on Knowledge (XXG) now, my impression is that literalism and fundamentalism (in the scholarly sense) with regard to scriptures is found in many religious traditions, and that such phenomenon have been
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Judaism: section is nonsense. All of traditional/Orthodox Judaism believes that scripture is authoritative, Kararites differ from mainstream Judaism on the method of interpreting scripture. Then comes the sourced sentence: "Karaite Jews interpret their scripture according to peshat, the plain
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This article needs some credible resources to support the notion without appealing to it, such as something academic about the concept itself and how it is common across multiple belief systems. If a few of these sorts of sources were added, then I agree and suggest
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Deletion isn't a form of cleanup. I think the article should have discussion of the title and then improved, Reason for deletion #6 seems to be your closest suggestion but surely there's reliable sources out there. Just need to find contributors to find them!
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meaning of the text understood by the ancient Israelite authors". In fact, the Kraites were/are one of the competing sects of "ancient Israelite authors," all of whom conceived themselves as understandig the text correctly.
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called "the Cult of the Book", which is a trend in Mahayāna Buddhist schools like Nichiren to devote themselves and pay homage to a scripture in similar style to how other Buddhists would pay homage to a Buddha image or a
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the choice of a name. It is the fact that your assertion that there is a specific, reliably defined, theological approach to scripture shared by reliably defined groups of Buddhists, Muslims, Jews and Christians is
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should be called when applied to any religion, following reliable sources. The current title of the article is awkward. If and when such a name can be found and agreed on, notability can be checked.
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The article is about a common aspect found in various religions. This common aspect is noted in the articles on sola scriptura and quranism. I found it fascinating, so I made an article about it.
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can be written and adequately sourced, but there has been no evidence offered that it can be. Meanwhile, the page as it now stands is so woefully inadequate as to be a disgrace to the project.
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I'm sorry; why are you choosing to keep an article that doesn't exist? I've nominated the article you see now, not a possible article that could be written if somebody gathered sources.
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that page creator has created a number of heavily templated pages that rely on PRIMARY sourcing, and on simplistic and piously literal understandings of complex topics:
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an asset to the project when editors write pages, or propose to add pages about concepts regarding which htey have not invested the time to gain some degree of mastery.
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approach is found in these four theologically distinctive religions? to me this begins to look like a concept and phrase being pushed by lone Knowledge (XXG) user.
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have connected this with influence from Protestantism: "rotestant Buddhism undercuts the importance of the religious professional ... the distinction between the
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Christianity: This concept started with Luther, who was a Christian. Page fails to present a sophisticated understanding to the concept in Christianity.
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that originated with Martin Luther and simplistically – and with very little support from scholarly sources – imposes it on Buddhism, Judaism and Islam.
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Or maybe not. I am not at all persuaded that this phrase is in wide use to describe streams of Buddhism, Judaism or Islam.
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studied scholarly and from multi-religious perspectives. The title of this article is quite awkward though. I'd say
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discussions to support the concept that this is a thing? I mean scholars who write that a similar
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For those who wish to keep the article, there should first be agreement on how the principle of
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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Article is too simplistic to keep. This new, single-editor page takes a doctrine,
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It is "mentioned" on those pages in the sense that you recently added it
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True, but quality of article does not pertain to notability of subject.--
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But I couldn't find any scholarly discussion of what would amount to
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before just writing about something because you find it fascinating.
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Scientific studies performed on private revelations and visionaries
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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is a "sect", rather than a scholarly and theological approach.
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is wrong. I am happy to be corrected by scholars of Buddhism.
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that originated with Martin Luther ... imposes it on Buddhism
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that originated with Martin Luther ... imposes it on Buddhism
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without even two such sources provided is wishful thinking.
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simply listing those articles it has until now copied from.
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You've been an editor since 2011. You should know to read
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