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... kind of study that is made under it , although it carries some sense . The name is rather synoptic . More properly , perhaps , it is to be called ' Comparative study of Religions ' rather than ' Comparative Religion . ' A. C. Bouquet ...
... kind of study that is made under it , although it carries some sense . The name is rather synoptic . More properly , perhaps , it is to be called ' Comparative study of Religions ' rather than ' Comparative Religion . ' A. C. Bouquet ...
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... kind of scientific attitude . And that is that , instead of being completely neutral , one will have to be a bit sympathetic towards other religions . Charity towards other religions , therefore , is a necessary ingredient of the ...
... kind of scientific attitude . And that is that , instead of being completely neutral , one will have to be a bit sympathetic towards other religions . Charity towards other religions , therefore , is a necessary ingredient of the ...
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... kind of religious sensitivity is essential on the part of a man who wants to make a study of religions in a comparative perspective . A purely cut - and - dry attitude cannot be regarded as a really scientific attitude in this sphere of ...
... kind of religious sensitivity is essential on the part of a man who wants to make a study of religions in a comparative perspective . A purely cut - and - dry attitude cannot be regarded as a really scientific attitude in this sphere of ...
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... kind of belief regarding God etc. and one may follow any kind of religious practice of his choice . That will not check anyone from being called a Hindu . But he cannot be a Hindu unless he belongs to one or other class or Varna ...
... kind of belief regarding God etc. and one may follow any kind of religious practice of his choice . That will not check anyone from being called a Hindu . But he cannot be a Hindu unless he belongs to one or other class or Varna ...
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... kind and good . He is further conceived as eternally sleeping on his couch , unless disturbed by the supplication of other gods who on occasions require his intervention for the preservation of righteousness and good in the world . It ...
... kind and good . He is further conceived as eternally sleeping on his couch , unless disturbed by the supplication of other gods who on occasions require his intervention for the preservation of righteousness and good in the world . It ...
Contents
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Ultimate destiny | 36 |
BUDDHISM | 43 |
Life after death | 57 |
Principal sects | 67 |
Life after death | 99 |
CHRISTIANITY | 130 |
ISLAM | 153 |
SIKHISM | 173 |
COMPARISON AND APPRAISAL | 191 |
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Page 136 - So the Father is God, the Son is God : and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are not three Gods : but one God.
Page 105 - I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments...
Page 17 - THEN was not non-existent nor existent: there was no realm of air, no sky beyond it. What covered in, and where ? and what gave shelter ? Was water there, unfathomed depth of water? Death was not then, nor was there aught immortal: no sign was there, the day's and night's divider. That one thing, breathless, breathed by its own nature : apart from it was nothing whatsoever.
Page 136 - So there is one Father, not three Fathers ; one Son, not three Sons ; one Holy Ghost, not three Holy Ghosts, And in this Trinity none is afore or after other, none is greater or less than another) but the whole three persons are co-eternal together, and co-equaL So that in all things, as is aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped.
Page 136 - The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible, and the Holy Ghost incomprehensible. The Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy Ghost eternal. And yet they are not three eternals, but one eternal.