The Routledge Dictionary of Religious and Spiritual QuotationsRoutledge, 2005 M08 8 - 240 pages How 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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... earth only, one great ocean, one great world-mountain. Wherever any of these arise, there is no room for a second. Milinda's Questions, 239 (1st century BCE-1st century CE) 7 To make the World God, is to make all; and therefore this ...
... Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais (1821) 14 The One who, himself without colour, by the manifold application of his power Distributes many ...
... earth became the Yin and Yang, the concentrated essences of the Yin and Yang became the four seasons. Huai-nan Tzu, 3, 1 (2nd century) 9 The Great Ultimate through movement generates the Yang. When its activity reaches its limit, it ...
... Earth. Nihongi, 1, 1 (720) 11 Clement of Rome taught that God rules the world with a right and a left hand, the right being Christ, the left Satan. Clement's view is clearly monotheistic, as it unites the opposites in one God. Later ...
... earth. Bull of Innocent VIII, Summis desiderantes (1484) 7 Certain wicked women, perverted by Satan and seduced by the illusions and phantasms of devils, do actually, as they believe and profess, ride in the night-time on certain beasts ...
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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