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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... Mishnah, Sikh Adi Granth and Chinese Tao Te Ching. Read the words of prophets, scholars and mystics on the nature of the divine, the ethics of human conduct and the puzzles of mortality, resurrection and life after death. Here too are ...
... Mishnah, the basis of the Talmud, and from the Koran whose breadth of interest is noteworthy, and then there are many quotations from Christian and other writers, old and new. English literature has been widely drawn on and the most ...
... 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 much later writing) of the Hindu classical texts vary greatly ...
... Mishnah, Nedarim, 32 4 When they see a sign, they seek to make fun, And say, This is nothing but magic manifest. Koran, 37, 14–1 5 If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating. William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, V, iii, 110 ...
... Mishnah, Pesachim, 110. 4 I take refuge with the Lord of the Daybreak ...from the evil of the darkening when it comes on, and from the evil of the blowers among knots. Koran, 113, 1–4 5 Saul inquired of his servants, and learned from ...
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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