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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... senses... First, there is the sense of a personal piety ... Secondly and thirdly, there is the usage which refers to an overt system, whether of beliefs, practices, values, or whatever... Finally, there is 'religion' as a generic ...
... sense as comprehending all worship of the dead, be they of the same blood or not, we reach the conclusion that ancestor-worship is the root of every religion. Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Sociology (1882) 7 The theorist who ...
... sense, but the 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 ...
... sense monotheistic we have to add that it is also modalistic. Spirit, though one, is differently thought of with regard to different effects and relations. E.E.Evans-Pritchard, Nuer Religion (1956) 13 Neither the religions called ...
... sense of the divine as non-personal may indeed reflect an aspect of the same infinite reality that is encountered as personal in theistic religious experience. John Hick, God and the Universe of Faiths (1973) 21 As early as in St Paul ...
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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