The Abrahamic Religions

[Craig.Paardekooper]

I am aware of a "subtle" difference between the Abrahamic family of religions, and the other world religions. Broadly speaking, the religions of the world fall into these two groups -

A. Revelation: God reaching out to Man

Judaism
Zoroastrianism
Christianity
Islam


B. Man reaching out to the Transcendent/God

Buddhism
Hinduism
Jainism
Taoism
Confucianism


The revelatory religions possess some striking characteristics –

Monotheism
Prophecy
Revelation
God enters history – becomes objective

We might add that the revelatory religions -

originate in the Fertile Cresent area – the Land
were mainly given to the descendants of Abraham.


On contemplating this, I am quite surprised at how the Abrahamic religions "stand out" as special in this way.

Does anyone have any thoughts about this?