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A century ago the German Protestant [[theology|theologian]] [[Adolf von Harnack]] set about on a quest to discover the "kernel" of [[religion]] beneath the "husk."  His theory was that beneath the visible trappings of religion, or the "husk," there must surely lie a single principle; simple, solid and unchanging--the "kernel."  Other theologians of the time followed suit, each presenting his own [[idea]] of what must surely constitute this "kernel" of religion.  While these attempts to describe the simple [[essence]] of religion took place squarely in the [[context]] of "early modern" [[Christian]] theology, nevertheless, they were very [[universal]] in their [[thinking]] insofar as they held in common the idea that all religions in [[fact]] share the same kernel, or essence.  It was therefore an ecumenical [[movement]] of sorts.  What I now offer here is presented in the [[spirit]] of that same quest.  I should also clarify at this point that my thesis is not about religion in the institutional sense, but about the origins of religion in the primal and universal stirrings of the human [[heart]].

A century ago the German Protestant [[theology|theologian]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Adolf_Harnack_and_the_Search_for_Missing_Christianity Adolf von Harnack] set about on a quest to discover the "kernel" of [[religion]] beneath the "husk."  His theory was that beneath the visible trappings of religion, or the "husk," there must surely lie a single principle; simple, solid and unchanging--the "kernel."  Other theologians of the time followed suit, each presenting his own [[idea]] of what must surely constitute this "kernel" of religion.  While these attempts to describe the simple [[essence]] of religion took place squarely in the [[context]] of "early modern" [[Christian]] theology, nevertheless, they were very [[universal]] in their [[thinking]] insofar as they held in common the idea that all religions in [[fact]] share the same kernel, or essence.  It was therefore an ecumenical [[movement]] of sorts.  What I now offer here is presented in the [[spirit]] of that same quest.  I should also clarify at this point that my thesis is not about religion in the institutional sense, but about the origins of religion in the primal and universal stirrings of the human [[heart]].

==Preface==

==Preface==