The Routledge Dictionary of Religious and Spiritual QuotationsHow did the universe come to exist? What is the nature of its creator? Is there a purpose to human existence? What is it to live a good life? |
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... Common Prayer. This dictionary aims at being comprehensive and selective, ancient and modern. In these days there is a wider knowledge of many religions, east and west, than ever before and it would be parochial to ignore the great ...
... Common Era (or AD), and BCE, Before the Common Era (or BC). The most frequently quoted sources have not been dated but here are some general indications. The Hebrew Bible ranges through the first millennium BCE, and the Christian New ...
... Common Prayer in its familiar form comes from 1662 and its Articles of Religion from 1571. Shakespearean scholars differ over the times of publication of his writings, but the plays must have been composed between 1580 and his death in ...
... common religion of primeval humanity, we shall find man's faith, obedience and worship entirely directed towards the one great dominant figure of the Supreme Being. Wilhelm Schmidt, The Origin and Growth of Religion (1931) 5 The origin ...
... common: 1. their obsession with the origin and the beginnings of religions; 2. their taking for granted that the beginning was something 'simple and pure'. Of course, the evolutionists and the romantic-decadentists understood quite ...
Contents
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II THE SUPERNATURAL | 37 |
III THE NATURE OF GOD | 51 |
IV THE UNIVERSE | 76 |
V HUMANITY | 89 |
VI THE SACRED | 97 |
VII SACRED PERSONS | 105 |
XI SPIRITUAL EXERCISES | 151 |
XII RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY | 164 |
XIII RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY | 189 |
XIV VIRTUE AND THE GOOD | 205 |
XV MORALITY | 225 |
XVI MEN AND WOMEN | 246 |
XVII SOCIETY | 263 |
XVIII LAST THINGS | 291 |
VIII SACRED WORDS | 120 |
IX SACRED ACTIONS | 128 |
X SPIRITUALITY | 136 |
TEXT AND AUTHOR INDEX | 318 |
SUBJECT INDEX | 330 |
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The Routledge Dictionary of Religious and Spiritual Quotations Geoffrey Parrinder Limited preview - 2005 |