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in institutional religions there is a circular paradox in both the text-reader relationship and in the master-student relationship. we believe in religious revelations because the text informs us of their occurrence. therefore, it follows that we must first believe in the holy status of the text before we can believe in what it contain. but the religious legitimacy of the status of the text depends entirely in what it contains.
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Margulies, H. (2017). On the Logical Paradox of Religious Circularity. In: Will and Grace. Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-197-1_19
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