Prisca theologia

Prisca theologia is the doctrine within the field of comparative religious studies that asserts that a single, true, theology exists, which threads through all religions, and which was given by god to man in antiquity.[1][2] Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola endeavored to reform the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church by means of the writings of the prisca theologia in the fifteenth century.[3] This doctrine is held by, among others, Rosicrucianism.[4] The Enlightenment tended to view all religion as cultural variations on a common anthropological theme.[5]

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  1. ^ Yates, F., Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, Routledge, London, 1964, pp 14–18 and pp 433–434
  2. ^ Hanegraaff, W. J., New Age Religion and Western Culture, SUNY, 1998, p 360.
  3. ^ Heiser, James D., Prisci Theologi and the Hermetic Reformation in the Fifteenth Century, Repristination Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1461093824
  4. ^ Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition by Glenn Alexander Magee
  5. ^ Natural Religion and the History of Priestcraft 1660-1722 Chapter 5 from, The Pillars of Priestcraft Shaken: The Church of England and its Enemies, 1660-1730 (1992), by Justin Champion, ISBN 052140536X