Across families

Anglicanism and Bahá’í Faith

Different families with 12 axes in close agreement — the sort of pairing a quiz weighting only the divine axes would never surface. Mean distance across all seventeen axes: 0.12 (0 would be identical).

AnglicanismChristianity

Deliberately broad: scripture, tradition and reason weighted together, with liturgical form holding together people who disagree doctrinally. Has the widest dispersions of any Christian body here, and that width is the tradition rather than a defect in the data.

Bahá’í FaithAbrahamic

One unknowable God revealed progressively through a succession of messengers, of whom Bahá’u’lláh is the most recent — so the world’s religions are stages of one revelation rather than rivals. Highly inclusive about other paths and highly centralised about its own administration.

Where they agree

E2 Origin of the cosmos
Both sit at an intentional act — a gap of 0.00.
C2 Shape of time
Both sit at one life, then judgment — a gap of 0.02.
A1 Divine reality
Both sit at a divine reality certainly exists — a gap of 0.02.
C1 Survival of the self
Both sit at continues in some form — a gap of 0.04.
B1 Source of truth
Both sit at leaning revealed and fixed — a gap of 0.07.
E4 Standing of nature
Both sit at between creation, given for use and animate and itself sacred — a gap of 0.07.
B2 Reading of sacred text
Both sit at between literal and binding and metaphorical, or no text at all — a gap of 0.07.
D2 Centrality of ritual
Both sit at leaning essential and prescribed — a gap of 0.08.
D3 The body
Both sit at between to be disciplined and to be celebrated — a gap of 0.10.
A3 Plurality
Both sit at strictly one — a gap of 0.10.
A4 Locus
Both sit at between wholly beyond the world and fully present within it — a gap of 0.10.
A2 Personhood
Both sit at a personal being one can address and leaning a personal being one can address respectively — a gap of 0.10.

All seventeen axes

Axis	Anglicanism	Bahá’í Faith	Gap
A1 Divine reality	a divine reality certainly exists	a divine reality certainly exists	0.02
A2 Personhood	a personal being one can address	leaning a personal being one can address	0.10
A3 Plurality	strictly one	strictly one	0.10
A4 Locus	between wholly beyond the world and fully present within it	between wholly beyond the world and fully present within it	0.10
B1 Source of truth	leaning revealed and fixed	leaning revealed and fixed	0.07
B2 Reading of sacred text	between literal and binding and metaphorical, or no text at all	between literal and binding and metaphorical, or no text at all	0.07
B3 Institutional authority	between clergy and tradition decide and individual conscience decides	clergy and tradition decide	0.30
C1 Survival of the self	continues in some form	continues in some form	0.04
C2 Shape of time	one life, then judgment	one life, then judgment	0.02
C3 The human condition	leaning fallen and in need of rescue	leaning ignorant but fundamentally sound	0.38
D1 Mechanism of the ultimate good	leaning given as grace	between given as grace and achieved by effort or insight	0.27
D2 Centrality of ritual	leaning essential and prescribed	leaning essential and prescribed	0.08
D3 The body	between to be disciplined and to be celebrated	between to be disciplined and to be celebrated	0.10
E1 Exclusivity	between one true path and many valid paths	leaning many valid paths	0.20
E2 Origin of the cosmos	an intentional act	an intentional act	0.00
E3 Locus of belonging	between a people, inherited and an individual choice	leaning an individual choice	0.13
E4 Standing of nature	between creation, given for use and animate and itself sacred	between creation, given for use and animate and itself sacred	0.07

Positions for Anglicanism rest principally on Thirty-Nine Articles (1571) and the Book of Common Prayer; for Bahá’í Faith, on Bahaʼuʼllah, Kitab-i-Aqdas and Kitab-i-Iqan. Per-cell sources are listed on each tradition’s own page.

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