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Page 335
... religion are so widely ques- tioned , the witness of the mystics is of particular appeal ; but it should be remembered that most mystics have not been rebels against their respective religious confessions . Another great question that ...
... religion are so widely ques- tioned , the witness of the mystics is of particular appeal ; but it should be remembered that most mystics have not been rebels against their respective religious confessions . Another great question that ...
Page 362
... religion , however , continued even after Christ . During the 3rd and 4th centuries a new non - Chris- tian world religion appeared in the form of Manichaeism , which countered the Christian Church with new holy books , a new ...
... religion , however , continued even after Christ . During the 3rd and 4th centuries a new non - Chris- tian world religion appeared in the form of Manichaeism , which countered the Christian Church with new holy books , a new ...
Page 363
... religions with Christianity and in that way prepared the development of the comparative study of religion . Only in the philosophy of the Enlightenment was the de- mand of tolerance , which thus far in Christian Europe had been applied ...
... religions with Christianity and in that way prepared the development of the comparative study of religion . Only in the philosophy of the Enlightenment was the de- mand of tolerance , which thus far in Christian Europe had been applied ...
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