ABSTRACT
Religions have produced repertoires of stories and narratives about their deities and the latter's relationship with the cosmos and with human beings: stories that have been handed down by word of mouth, or spoken revelations subsequently put into writing. In the Christian religious scenario, differentiation can be interpreted in different ways. This chapter analyzes the theological and political reasons that have produced schisms and lacerations which have remained impossible to repair by taking a historical perspective. The much discussed religious pluralism that was once identified as a marker of changes underway in the modern socio-religious landscape exists already in the beginning; it lies at the very foundations of the original process of construction and constitution of a belief system. Religion as a communication medium suggests that the idea of a God who speaks, always choosing privileged interpreters to whom He transmits a symbolic code.
