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criticism of regarding Christianity as a species of genus religion
For [[Christians]], the Bible teaches the triune nature of man, and Jesus said the greatest commandment in the Old Testament was to love God with all your heart, all your [[mind]] and all your [[soul]]. The Christian religion employs the use of [[logic]] and [[faith]]. Morality has often historically been based on religion, but many movements such as the [[secular humanism|secular humanists]] hold that morality does not depend on religion, and secular views of morality have existed as far back as ancient Greece.<ref>Humanism A new Religion. Simon and Schuster. pp. 64–69.</ref>
For [[Christians]], the Bible teaches the triune nature of man, and Jesus said the greatest commandment in the Old Testament was to love God with all your heart, all your [[mind]] and all your [[soul]]. The Christian religion employs the use of [[logic]] and [[faith]]. Morality has often historically been based on religion, but many movements such as the [[secular humanism|secular humanists]] hold that morality does not depend on religion, and secular views of morality have existed as far back as ancient Greece.<ref>Humanism A new Religion. Simon and Schuster. pp. 64–69.</ref>
== Criticism of classifying [[Christianity]] as a species of genus religion ==
There are scholars like [[Visser't Hooft]] who resist the notion of [[Christianity]] as a "species of the [[genus]] religion." He argues that Christianity is an "adequate and definitive [[Revelation (religion)|revelation]] of [[God]] in history," that classifying Christianity as one expression of "a general phenomenon called religion is to set it in a framework which is foreign to its nature. In differentiating the world religions from the world of revelation, Jean Danielou says, "The worst misunderstanding of Christianity or of [[Judaism]] is to make them religions among other religions — the very error of [[syncretism]]."<ref name="Christopaganism">{{cite book
|title=Christopaganism or Indigenous Christianity?
|author=Alan R. Tippet
|editors=Tetsunao Yamamori, Charles R. Taber
|publisher=William-Carey Library
|location=South Pasadena, California
|year=1975
|chapter=5:Formal Transformation and Faith Distortion
|pages=104, 117
|isbn=0-87808-423-1
|url=http://books.google.com/books?ei=-zCYUNfxFMvmtQbx_IGwCQ&id=QjYQAQAAIAAJ
}}</ref>
== Definition of religion ==
== Definition of religion ==