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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... ideas and ideals which guide life. Many modern writers are included, theologians and anthropologists, novelists and poets, believers and sceptics. Even in our own time there is such a vast array of religious reference that no volume ...
... Ideas (1929) 21 So long as religion is only faith and outward form, and the religious function is not experienced in our own souls, nothing of any importance has happened. C.G.Jung, Psychology and Alchemy (1953) 22 In the peasant's ...
... idea of ghosts inevitably—Spencer's favourite word—develops into that of Gods, the ghosts of remote ancestors or of superior persons becoming divinities... It is a fine example of the introspectionist psychologist's, or 'if I were a ...
... idea that mental stress and mental illness are the prerogative of 'over-civilised' societies: that the simple savage may have Ancylostomiasis but cannot have Anxiety: that he may, in his innocence, believe his neighbour to be making bad ...
... idea of a Supreme Being, and the erroneous identification, the misleading assimilation, of this idea to true monotheism can give rise only to misunderstandings. Raffaele Pettazzoni, Essays on the History of Religions (1954) 9 A theistic ...
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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