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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... Christ, Mohammad and the Buddha and the inspiration of religious and mystic experience have produced the world's richest and most extensive literature. In this collection of over 3000 quotations you will discover the diversity of that ...
... Christ for a thousand years. Various groups through history have speculated when this Millennium would arrive and prepared for it, but more generally the timing was fitted into the Christian calendar which began approximately at the ...
... Christian tradition. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations has over 2,000 reference from the Bible alone, including the Psalms from the Book of Common Prayer. This dictionary aims at being comprehensive and selective, ancient and modern ...
... Christian New Testament mostly in the first century CE. The Mishnah is post-biblical, leading up to the Talmuds of 400–500 CE. The Koran (Qur' n) was committed to writing in the seventh century CE. Estimates for the composition (and ...
... Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion, and not only the Protestant religion but the Church of England. Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, iii, 3 (1748) 7 My country is the world, and my religion is ...
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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