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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... nature of its creator? Is there a purpose to human existence? What is it to live a good life? The Routledge Dictionary of Religious and Spiritual Quotations offers not just one answer to these questions, but many. The fundamental ...
... Nature of God 27. Being 51 28. Transcendence 53 29. Immanence 54 30. Incarnation—Avatar 57 31. Triads and Trinity 59 32. Creator 60 33. Parent 62 34. Spirit 63 35. Light 64 36. Almighty 65 37. Omniscience 66 38. Goodness and Grace 67 39 ...
... Nature 89 51. The Human Body 92 52. Soul and Spirit 94 VI. The Sacred 53. Places 97 54. Symbols and Images 98 55. Relics 100 56. Holy Days 101 57. Festivals 102 58. Iconoclasm 103 VII. Sacred Persons 59. Charisma 105 60. Prophets 107 61 ...
... nature of the Unknowable. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911) 13 The old religionist cries out for his God. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his. G.K.Chesterton, All Things Considered (1908) 14 There is only ...
... nature into thought. The third stage is that of religion or the recognition of moral powers, and in the end of One Moral Power behind and above all nature. Max MĂĽller, Science of Mythology (1897) 2 With all due diffidence, then, I would ...
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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