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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... living in primitive conditions, those would, he assumed, have been the steps by which he would have reached the beliefs which primitives hold. E.E.Evans-Pritchard, Theories of Primitive Religion (1965) 10 I want to state the conclusion ...
... living souls he approached: 'souls' of grass, trees, stones, animals, birds, fish; 'souls' of planetary bodies and of the bodies of men and women; the 'souls', even, of all manner of inanimate little things. J.C.Powys, Wolf Solent (1929) ...
... living Buddhism have shown that Buddhists differ very little from people in general. M.E.Spiro, Buddhism and Society (1970) 7 The western misunderstanding of Buddhism as atheistic explains the statement (in English) of a Sinhalese ...
... living God. They seem to be in the business of running some sort of club. Donald Reeves, in Priestland's Progress (1981) 24 The faith of a Catholic is not better or stronger than the faith of a Protestant, but a person's unconscious is ...
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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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