[4] In 2009, an assembly held by National Secretary of Chairs and Forums for Theorization, Critique, Innovation and Debate" (affiliate center of Iranian Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution) to investigate and criticize the claims of this theory; consequently, after numerous debates and discussions it has been announced as a new theory in the field of "logic of Understanding Religion" and "Philosophy of Religious Knowledge".
In the same year, Ali Akbar Rahad was nominated for "eminent theoretician" (Farabi International Award) for his theorizing and then received prizes and awards from UNESCO, ISESCO, Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (Iran) and the President of Iran.
[7] He claims that "some theories on the process and method of formation and resulting knowledge –in general sense (proper and improper) more or less have been presented by some philosophers.
But they never present the discussion in the clear and self-evident manner about the process and mechanism of religious knowledge formation.
From among the western thinkers, Hermeneuticians have discussed on the method of knowledge formation and the influence of some epistemic and non-epistemic factors in interpretation of the text.