Hi Gilberto,
Nader Saiedi, author of Logos and Civilization, sums up Progressive Revelation pretty well (pages 11-14), in my view. I'm interested in your comments of the following:
The materialistic logic is obviously rejected by Baha'u'llah. Baha'u'llah equally rejects the exclusivism of fundamentalist religion by affirming the unity of all the Manifestations of God...
The fact that Baha'u'llah's teachings do not fit the exclusivist model of religious fundamentalism does not mean that His vision corresponds to a version of postmodern pluralism. Unlike postmodernist assumption of the RANDOMNESS of religion, PROGRESSIVE REVELATION assigns a clear purpose, meaning, direction, and logic to the divine revelations in relation to each other and in religious history. Religions are NEITHER RANDOM expressions of human cultural construction, NOR STATIC AND CLOSED reflections of a chaotic, nonbinding, and random divine reality. They are not merely different and incommensurable ways of approaching or experiencing the divine. On the principle of progressive revelation, all religions are EQUALLY TRUE and VALID precisely because they are all SUCCESSIVE EXPRESSIONS of one and the same divine Reality and of teh same divine plan for humanity.
The diverse revelations of the specific Manifestations of God
ARE NOT INSULAR OR UNRELATED OR CULTURALLY DETERMINED
but
INSEPARABLE, PROGRESSIVE, AND TELEOLOGICAL.
That interrelationship and sequence of all the divine revelations becomes the very logic of the divine plan for the collective advancement of humankind.
In this logic, acceptance of **ONE** Manifestation implies acceptance of **ALL** the others, and rejection of **ONE** implies rejection of **ALL**. The essential truth expressed in all the religions becomes accessible through the recognition of the most recent Manifestation of God.
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