revealed religion

American  

noun

1. religion based chiefly on the revelations of God to humans, especially as described in Scripture.

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revealed religion British  

noun

1. religion based on the revelation by God to man of ideas that he would not have arrived at by his natural reason alone

2. religion in which the existence of God depends on revelation

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Etymology

Origin of revealed religion

First recorded in 1710–20

Example Sentences

He traveled across the country giving lectures that paid tribute to Thomas Paine, a patriot who fell from grace because of his mockery of revealed religion.

From Salon

“The self-evident, secular truths of the Declaration of Independence became, to evangelical Americans, the truths of revealed religion” is Lepore’s insight.

From New York Times

In the past, the church was a repository of scholarship for its own sake – but, nowadays, we are a resolutely secular society, unless, that is, you subscribe to fundamentalist revealed religion.

From The Guardian

The “master-slave” ethos – obligatory obeisance to a deity — pervading the revealed religions is inimical to such debate.

From Salon

Densification may be revealed religion to British planners, but this faith is not well accepted by citizens who live nearby.

From Newsweek