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Prisca theologia is the doctrine within the field of comparative religious studies that asserts that asingle, true, theology exists, which threads through all religions, and which was given by God to manin antiquity.[1][2]

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The term prisca theologia appears to have been first used by Marsilio Ficino in the fifteenth century.Ficino and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola endeavored to reform the teachings of the Roman CatholicChurch by means of the writings of the prisca theologia, which they believed was reflected inNeoplatonism, Hermeticism, and the Chaldean Oracles, among other sources.[3] The Enlightenmenttended to view all religion as cultural variations on a common anthropological theme;[4] however, theEnlightenment, which tended to deny the validity of any form of revealed religion, held in very littleesteem the idea of a prisca theologia.

The doctrine (if it may be called that) of a prisca theologia is held by, among others,Rosicrucianism.[5]

Prisca theologia is distinguishable from the related concept of the so-called perennial philosophy,although some inadvertently use the two terms interchangeably. An essential difference is that theprisca theologia is understood as existing in pure form only in ancient times, and has undergone aprocess of continuous decline and dilution throughout modern times. In other words, the oldestreligious principles and practices are held to be, in some sense, the purest. The perennial philosophytheory does not make this stipulation, and merely asserts that the 'true religion' periodically manifestsitself in different times, places, and forms. Both concepts, however, do suppose that there is such athing as a 'true religion', and tend to agree on the basic characteristics associated with this truereligion.

Perennial philosophyEcumenismHermeticismPre-AdamiteSyncretism

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1. ^ Yates, F., Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, Routledge, London, 1964, pp 1418 and pp433434

2. ^ Hanegraaff, W. J., New Age Religion and Western Culture, SUNY, 1998, p 360.3. ^ Heiser, James D., Prisci Theologi and the Hermetic Reformation in the Fifteenth Century,

Repristination Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4610-9382-44. ^ Natural Religion and the History of Priestcraft 1660-1722 Chapter 5 from, The Pillars of Priestcraft

Shaken: The Church of England and its Enemies, 1660-1730 (1992), by Justin Champion, ISBN 0-521-40536-X

5. ^ Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition by Glenn Alexander Magee

Hanegraaff, Wouter J. "Tradition". In: Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism (Wouter J.Hanegraaff, ed.), pp. 11251135. Brill, 2006. ISBN 90-04-15231-8.

Hankins, James. Plato in the Italian Renaissance, 2 vols. Brill, 1990. ISBN 90-04-09161-0.

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