Religious Studies
epub |eng | | Author:Zargar, Cyrus Ali; [Zargar, Cyrus Ali]

Chapter Seven Distancing Oneself from the Worldly: Renunciation (Zuhd) According to al-Muḥāsibī and al-Sarrāj It is best not to draw forced comparisons between Sufism and Aristotelian virtue ethics, but renunciation ...
( Category: Religious Studies May 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-01 | Author:Jeff VanVonderen

The Overachiever These people never get tired—or at least never let anyone know they are. They live their whole lives on the “try-hard” side of the cycle. They are the ...
( Category: Christian Living April 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Vivianne Crowley

Finding and balancing the functions How can we detect our dominant function? You may find that as soon as you read one of the descriptions, it leaps out at you ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality April 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-26 | Author:Tim Whitmarsh [Tim Whitmarsh]

This is essentially the same argument as Xenophon’s: that it is contradictory both to claim that he is an atheist and to argue that he believes in the daimonion, which ...
( Category: Philosophy April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Raymo, Chet [Raymo, Chet]

NINE Academy in Revolt The only source of knowledge is experience. Albert Einstein ELS A EINSTEIN WAS once asked if she understood her famous husband's theory of relativity. She replied, ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 26,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:Stenger, Victor J. [Stenger, Victor J.]

The point Dawkins was making is that if Dembski,33 Behe,34 and their supporters in the intelligent design movement are correct that complexity can only arise from higher complexity, then God ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 1999-07-27 | Author:Nash, Ronald H. [Nash, Ronald H.]

( Category: Philosophy April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 1670-01-01 | Author:Spinoza, Benedict de [Spinoza, Benedict de]

CHAPTER XIII. IT IS SHOWN THAT SCRIPTURE TEACHES ONLY VERY SIMPLE DOCTRINES, SUCH AS SUFFICE FOR RIGHT CONDUCT. IN the second chapter of this treatise we pointed out that the ...
( Category: Philosophy April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Montefiore, Simon Sebag [Montefiore, Simon Sebag]

THE OUD- PLAYER: WASIF JAWHARIYYEH Wasif Jawhariyyeh started to learn the lute – or oud – as a boy, and soon he was the best oud-player in a town that ...
( Category: Middle East April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-10 | Author:Cahill, Thomas [Cahill, Thomas]

“The most unlikely person, the most improbable situation— these are all ‘transfigurable—they can be turned into their glorious opposites.” These are the words of Desmond Tutu, archbishop emeritus of Cape ...
( Category: Specific Groups April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-09 | Author:Pine, Red;

20. Good friends, while I confer on you the Formless Precepts, you must all experience this for yourselves. Recite this together with me, and it will enable you to see ...
( Category: Buddhism April 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-07 | Author:William A. Dembski ,Jonathan Witt [Dembski, William A.]

Nature is strong and she is pitiless. She works in her own mysterious way, and we are her victims. We have not much to do with it ourselves. Nature takes ...
( Category: Religious Studies April 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:SWAMI ACHUTHANANDA [ACHUTHANANDA, SWAMI]

The True Self The Chandogya Upanishad relates the tale of Indra and Virochana, the lords of the devas (gods) and asuras (demons) respectively, who set out to meet Prajapati,19 the ...
( Category: Religious Studies April 25,2018 )
mobi |eng | 1992-04-06 | Author:Bernard Lonergan [Lonergan, Bernard]

15 Elements of Metaphysics As the preceding chapter outlined a program, so the present chapter turns to its execution. We have to make explicit the latent metaphysics of the human ...
( Category: Philosophy April 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2002-06-01 | Author:Paul Eddy

* * * Entire Sanctification as Perfect Love (The Wesleyan View) * * * The Wesleyan view of sanctification begins with the insight that in the Bible the concept of ...
( Category: Religious Studies April 25,2018 )