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                                                                                                     On                                                                                                      On "Special Revelation"

On my analysis, "special revelation" is to what I distinguish as "original revelation" as "re-presentation" is to "presentation." Thus it points to the constitutive moment of any particular religion, which is constituted by some special re-presentation of what is originally presented to human existence as such, if only implicitly. This means that, for the particular religion constituted by a given special revelation, this revelation is also "decisive revelation." So, although from the standpoint of some other religion it may be merely one special revelation among others, from the standpoint of the religion it constitutes it is decisive revelation.

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