Comparative Religion
epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Frances Worthington

THE RANSOM On the morning after God had requested the sacrifice of Abraham’s only son, Ishmael and Abraham rose early. Calling for two servants to accompany them, Abraham saddled a ...
( Category: Baha'i March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-01 | Author:B. Alan Wallace

PHILOSOPHICAL SKEPTICISM With the rise of behaviorism in the early twentieth century, subjective experience in general and consciousness in particular were marginalized due to the insistence that the scientific study ...
( Category: Meditation March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Laine, James W.

MAP 6. The “gunpowder empires”: Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal, ca. 1500–1700. While assuming the preeminence of Muslim civilization, some powerful Muslims nonetheless adopted an inclusivist view of religion in ways ...
( Category: Comparative Religion March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Lowney

Maimonides’ twelfth-century analysis of sacred texts and religious belief foreshadowed an approach that discomfits many twenty-first-century believers committed to literal interpretation of Scripture: God said what God meant, and humans ...
( Category: Comparative Religion March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-21 | Author:Alon Goshen-Gottstein

Specific Wisdoms To Offer Buddhism at its best is able to differentiate between the means of realizing wisdom and wisdom itself, the raft and the other shore, as expressed in ...
( Category: Christian Ecumenism March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jacob Needleman

I immediately closed the book. I almost wept. I sat there trembling, so touched that I was unable to read further. I felt not so much that I had found ...
( Category: Comparative Religion March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Sanders, Fred, Sexton, Jason S. & Jason S. Sexton

The Casting Call (Pseudo) Community A network of individuals seeking authentic community to defragment our fragmented lives is what appears to be the outcome at Saddleback. And this is a ...
( Category: Surfing March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2004-07-15 | Author:Selene Silverwind [Silverwind, Selene]

Midsummer: The Summer Solstice Midsummer, also called Alban Hefin or St. John’s Day, takes place around the time of the summer solstice. Like Midwinter, it can be divided into two ...
( Category: Paganism March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-31 | Author:Sergius Bulgakov [Sergius Bulgakov]

3. The Limits of Sacramentalism At the present time the Church is understood, first of all, as a sacramental-hierarchical organization, as the repository of the gifts of grace dispensed by ...
( Category: Christian Theology March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kathleen D. Singh

The Psychospiritual Stages of Dying All religions begin with the cry “Help!” William James This very earth is the Lotus Land of Purity; And this body is the body of ...
( Category: Grief & Bereavement March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-27 | Author:W. O. E. Oesterley

One of the main ideas which come to the fore in connection with this subject is that the Israelites scattered all over the world are to be brought together to ...
( Category: Bible Study March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-18 | Author:Kreeft, Peter [Kreeft, Peter]

7 Other Possible Positions: Compromises? GUY : What about those other positions, though? Can you tell us about them, Jack? I think I underestimated now many very different positions there ...
( Category: Comparative Religion March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-24 | Author:Muluk, Dr. Michael Ignatius [Muluk, Dr. Michael Ignatius]

...And Boys, too! A nother curious thing one can discover when dissecting the Muslim Paradise is the presence of other beings, besides the Houris: perpetually young servant boys, beautiful as ...
( Category: Comparative Religion March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-22 | Author:Ernest Kurtz [Kurtz, Ernest]

And less than a hundred years later … “What do you think of the world to come?” an admirer asked Thoreau. “One world at a time,” Thoreau replied.9 Time, of ...
( Category: Comparative Religion March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bruce Bickel & Stan Jantz

Dr. Hazen Adds… So what’s the appeal? Bruce and Stan ask a very good question here—one that I believe is not asked often enough about various religious beliefs. After some ...
( Category: Evangelism March 21,2020 )