Avesta important for its views on death, salvation and life in the hereafter. Of the post-14th century works (all in New Persian), only the "Sad-dar" ("Hundred Doors, or Chapters"), and "rivayat"s (traditional treatises) are of doctrinal importance. Other texts such as "Zartushtnamah" ("Book of Zoroaster") are only notable for their preservation of legend and folklore. The "Aogemadaeca" "we accept," a treatise on death is based on quotations from the Avesta. Avesta The Avesta is the primary collection of religious texts of Zoroastrianism, composed in the otherwise unrecorded Avestan language. The Avesta texts fall into several different categories, arranged either by dialect,
The Religion of the Future stated that he considered the book, alongside Ronald Dworkin’s "Religion Without God", to be an example of “religious atheism,” that is, a “new attitude to God” that “presents a new horizon for Christianity.” While strongly criticizing the book from a theistic standpoint, Chapman allows that this new religious atheism may represent a “maturing of the infantile atheism offered by the scientific naturalism perspective: it looks at the world and finds moral truth, objective value, and goodness.” Reviewing "The Religion of the Future" in "Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews", Jeremy David Bendik-Keymer considered the book as the second part of the project