How and why a religion develops and expresses its beliefs

What this note covers

1. Why beliefs move: the pressures behind development
2. Formal structures that authorise change
3. Worked example: the Second Vatican Council
4. Worked example: ijtihad and renewed reasoning in Islamic law
5. Expressing belief: how change becomes visible
6. Continuity claims: change that says it is not change
7. How this is examined in the WACE paper

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