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...d Books of the East include all the most important works of the seven non-Christian religions that have 'exercised a profound influence on the civil... ... RELIGION. (a) Prayers and Hymns, vols. 32,42, 46. (h) Magic, Rites, and Theology, vols. 12, 26, 29, 30, 41, 42, 43, 44. (c) Philosophy, vols. 1, 8... ...oses and A. who fulfilled his word, 9, 253; the sayings of the A. of the Christians, 18, 107, 107 n.; the people of A. called him liar, 9, 61 ; an...

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...taught a great multitude, so that at Antioch the disciples were rst named Christians. 27 And in these days there came prophets from Jerusalem to Anti... ...t. 28 And Agrippa said to Paul: In a little thou persuadest me to become a Christian. 29 And Paul said: I would to God, that both in a little and in m... ...’s 1562 The First Epistle of St. Peter the Apostle things. 16 But if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name. 17...

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... find in the scheme of conversion and salvation as it is presented by many Christian sects, a very exact statement of the mental processes I am trying... ...iving ancestors at some definite date, at, let us say, the year one of the Christian era. Everyone has two parents and four grandparents, most people ... ... again; but for all we know one Italian proselyte in the first year of the Christian era may have made by this time every Jew alive a descendant of so... ...l, the things most shared and least distinctively me. 2.13. A CRITICISM OF CHRISTIANIT 2.13. A CRITICISM OF CHRISTIANIT 2.13. A CRITICISM OF CHRISTIAN... ...ICISM OF CHRISTIANIT 2.13. A CRITICISM OF CHRISTIANIT 2.13. A CRITICISM OF CHRISTIANIT 2.13. A CRITICISM OF CHRISTIANITY Y Y Y Y And here perhaps, bef... ...quence of my metaphysical prelimi- naries that I should find the Christian theology Aristotelian, over defined and excessively personified. The painte... ...annot bring myself back to them … But the psychological experience and the theology of Chris- tianity are only a ground-work for its essential feature... ...te effect of personality. After we have cleared off all the definitions of theology, He re- mains, mystically suffering for humanity, mystically asser...

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...nand III in the great campaign of 1236-48 that gave Cordova and Seville to Christian Spain and penned up the Moors in the kingdom of Granada, and his ... ...eserted Alcala the traveller sees now as he goes from Madrid to Saragossa. Theology and medicine may have been the strong points of the university, bu... ...s – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. her own and “some faint and distant resemblance to a Christian about her;” and as for Sancho, though on dissection we fail to fi... ...o anybody, mixing up things human and divine, a sort of motley in which no Christian understanding should dress itself. It has only to 44 Don Quixote... ...the invention of the famous Matteo Boiardo, whence 68 Don Quixote too the Christian poet Ludovico Ariosto wove his web, to whom, if I find him here, ... ...the Biscayan returned, “I no gentleman! -I swear to God thou liest as I am Christian: if thou droppest lance and drawest sword, soon shalt thou see th... ... getting him to take kindly to the law, which I wished him to study, or to theology, the queen of them all. I would like him to be an honour to his fa... ...mons.” “He preaches well who lives well,” said Sancho, “and I know no more theology than that.” “Nor needst thou,” said Don Quixote, “but I cannot con...

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...impetus and velocity to the blood gushing from the whale’s heart.” Paley’s Theology. “The whale is a mammiferous animal without hind feet.” 10 Extrac... ...wered Tom; “I saw his spout; he threw up a pair of as pretty rainbows as a Christian would wish to look at. He’s a raal oil butt, that fellow!” Cooper... ...ober har pooneer would get into a door mat, and parade the streets of any Christian town in that sort of guise? I put it on, to try it, and it weighe... ...ther shipped aboard of a whaleman in the South Seas, and so landed in this Christian country. I quaked to think of it. A peddler of heads too — perhap... ...ave to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. “Landlord,” said I, “tell him to stash his tomahawk there, or pi... ...plied, and then proceeded to wash himself. At that time in the morning any Christian would have washed his face; but Queequeg, to my amazement, conten... ... sacrifice of the sacred White Dog was by far the holiest festival of their theology, that spotless, faithful creature being held the purest envoy they...

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...tus and veloc- ity to the blood gushing from the whale’s heart.” —Paley’ s Theology. “The whale is a mammiferous animal without hind feet.” — Baron Cu... ...red T om; “I saw his sprout; he threw up a pair of as pretty rainbows as a Christian would wish to look at. He’s a raal oil-butt, that fellow!” —Coope... ... sober harpooneer would get into a door mat, and parade the streets of any Christian town in that sort of guise? I put it on, to try it, and it weighe... ...ther shipped aboard of a whaleman in the South Seas, and so landed in this Christian country. I quaked to think of it. A peddler of heads too— perhaps... ...ave to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. “Landlord,” said I, “tell him to stash his tomahawk there, or pi... ...plied, and then proceeded to wash himself. At that time in the morning any Christian would have washed his face; but Queequeg, to my amazement, conten... ...sacrifice of the sacred White Dog was by far the holiest festival of their theology, that spotless, faithful creature being held the purest envoy they...

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...e mere land, and that’s all they do own; but it was our folks, our Jews and Christians, that made it holy, and so they haven’t any busi ness to be t... ..., and ain’t got any more sense than to try to reason out a thing that’s pure theology by the laws that protect real estate!” Tom Sawyer Abroad Mark ...

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...church in Lantern Y ard, ac- cording to which prosecution was forbidden to Christians, even had the case held less scandal to the community. But the m... ... Marner—they were the fostering home of his religious emo- tions—they were Christianity and God’s kingdom upon earth. A weaver who finds hard words in... ... and come short o’ Their’n.” Poor Dolly’s exposition of her simple Raveloe theology fell rather unmeaningly on Silas’s ears, for there was no word in ...

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... or Luce, and in our country tongue, a ged—a, goodly distinction truly for Christian men! Yet did they paint this shark of the fresh waters upon their... ...n life.’ ‘Some mistake, madam, I presume, betwixt my father and myself—our Christian names have the same initials, though the terminations are differe... ...hat case, conjured, by every duty of a man to his fellow mortals, and of a Christian towards one who professes the 180 Redgauntlet same holy faith, t... ...and others from sustaining damage, surely I do but the duty of a man and a Christian.’ With these words, he ordered his horse instantly; and his siste... ...dren, at that early age, seldom get more than their 211 Sir W alter Scott Christian name.’ ‘Oh, I thought so,’ he replied, and again stretched himsel... ...er [A student of divinity who has not been able to complete his studies on theology.] to the sea instead of the gallows!’ 399 Sir W alter Scott ‘Now,...

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...ive assault upon the total position of the Romans. In An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility 1 Luther demolished the three walls behind which Rom... ...could he set forth, in language of almost lyrical rapture, The Freedom of a Christian. 2 Luther was thinking of such a treatise long before it was ... ...into captivity under the tyranny of the Babylonian Empire, so in Europe the Christians have been carried away from the Scriptures and made subject to... ...n identified as Isidoro Isolani, a Dominican hailing from Milan, who taught theology in various Italian cities, wrote a number of controversial works... ...is a theologieal treatise and was not intended for the rank and file of the Christian congregation. In this respect the treatise stands in contrast ... ...s, all of which were written in German and were intended for the individual Christian, whether layman or theologian. All in all, the Prelude was a d... ...ardinal, general of the Dominican order and foremost authority on Thomistic theology, found himself unequal to the task of testing and refuting Luthe... ...s called the sacramentum (Vulgate). Cf. PE 2, 177 n. 5: Julius Köstlin, The Theology of Luther, trans. Charles E. Hay. (Philadelphia, 1897), I, 403; ... ...ke new articles of faith. Some time ago, when I was drinking in scholastic theology, the learned Cardinal of Cambrai 59 gave me food for thought i...

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...re as many religious creeds as there are adherents. It is true that thevast majority of Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many...

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... Of Buddhism The Concept Of The Buddha Buddhist Yoga Zen Buddhism And Jung Christianity 59 Origins How Much Does Historical Truth Matter? Centrality O... ...59 Origins How Much Does Historical Truth Matter? Centrality Of Beliefs In Christianity Christian Belief Before The Nicaean Council The Centrality Of ... ... majority of Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many people these terms have come to lose near... ...o be as objective as possible. As a child I was reared in a fundamentalist Christian family which had little by way of formal affiliation with any par... ...nday, still hoping to fill the hunger inside. Eventually I had tried every Christian church available. The conservative Protestant churches (such as B... ...philosophy seemed to me an obvious alternative to the churches. After all, theology had started as part of philosophy and the separation between the t... ...in what I would be expected to preach. The required courses in traditional theology brought home to me the problem of linking church doctrines with pe... ...se the whole of life is, so to THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION 4 speak, religion. Theology and beliefs in general play little role in this aspect of religion... ... are names used to personify the activities of this Supreme Godhead. Hindu theology and tradition have been elaborated in countless writings by Indian...

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............................................................ 60 IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION? ............................................................ ...father, should he have been honored as the commandment requires? Are most Christians dishonoring the code by keeping Sunday rather than Saturday, th... ... through life accepting what the rest of our society believes. If it is a Christian society we believe in the New Testament. If it is a Muslim socie... ...to face their beliefs by thinking deeply about them. ―Few Jews, Christians, Hindus or Muslims change their religions. Few democrats want a ... ... ―Is this the reason that President George W. Bush, as an evangelical Christian, didn‘t believe in evolution or in global warming? Was it a lack... ... and thus brought us new insights. Remember that Pope Benedict had been a theology professor. He reminded us that pure reason allows us to go beyond... ...ccur through purely random selection. He assumes it is a conflict between theology and science and that theology wins. But he doesn‘t really underst... ...et to heaven? Dan Paden, a researcher with PETA, has a master‘s degree in theology from Boston College, a Jesuit University. He said that ‗I think i... ...theologians who can add such questions to the other enduring questions of theology, like how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.‖ -...

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...hose detestable holy rolling fanatical halo heads. In the spirit world, a Christian is spotted a mile away by their halo of happiness. Norma Mack is ... ...akelex cringe. The small icon of a halo at the bottom of the report meant Christian, yet this was only considered a minor hiccup. Snakelex had seen ... ...as not highlighted or in plain red lettering, he concluded this so-called Christian must have steered off the road a little. The demon was quite cor... ...ing, bad language, smoking, and a dog named Slops. Morris calls the local Christians, ‘those who reside on the hill’. They are rarely seen in the pu... ... classed as one of those on the hill and is a frequent customer. One very Christian lady in particular has demons in a panic when she, on a regular ... ...tongue to in order to back up her judgment. Snakelex worked on Karen’s own theology that God was not mysterious or unpredictable. There were no grey ...

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... Turkey obligingly accepted a "one country, two systems" approach by agreeing to a Christian administration of the region and by permitting educati... ...ective had all these reforms been by the turn of the century? How bad was life for Christian peasants in the Balkans? In a 1904 book called 'Macedo... ...sident brigands. ... They are known as rural guards. They are necessary because the Christian population is absolutely unarmed and defenceless. To a... ... Balkan problems. First, revolutionary politics was not the foremost issue for the Christian population: nationalism addressed the immediate proble... ...ns". To this very day, they hold all things Eastern (Serbs, the Orthodox version of Christianity, Belgrade, the Ottoman Empire, Macedonia) with unmi... ...ical encroachment in religious guise. The southern Slav churches rejected both the theology and the secular teachings of the "Hellenics" and the "R... ...ase in the Balkan. What started as a debate - however fervent - about abstract theology became an all out argument about derided customs and ce...

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...surgent ‗A‘ when insurgent ‗B‘ may win the guerrilla war. Why support the Christian side when the Muslim fighters may have the more ethical position.... ...ern culture since at least the days of the Greeks and Romans. The Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions may not have reduced the activity, but cert... ...that all divisions and diversions fit into the whole. It seems that your Christian and Islamic faiths have had a strong emphasis on increasing thei... ...roblems in that regard. During the last twenty years there have been anti-Christian outbursts in east India where churches and Christian homes have ... ... The Koran and its commentators speak of good and bad jinns. The Jews and Christians have their witches. 45 We can point to Deuteronomy 18:10 ‗T... ...both written 2500 to 2700 years ago. They illustrate the evolution in our theology and how we can best attain a union with the Oversoul, the panthei...

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... way to the reality of Jews, Chinese and Japanese outperforming their Anglo-Christian counterparts particularly in the business and medical fields. ... ...ing. Between 100,000 and a million American Indians were killed by the good Christian invaders. In Australia 300,000 Australian aborigines were elim... ...ing people to get to heaven? But I suppose that for the last 2000 years the Christians have had this goal. Of course the Jews had that vision 3,000 ... ...m was more accepting of science, which is why they were so far ahead of the Christians. And when the Greek Philolaus proposed his heliocentric theor... ...ics will be about half that number and Protestants will equal Catholics. So Christians and M0uslims will be about equal, but the Muslims are gaining ... ...dge of history or science or a comprehensive understanding of philosophy or theology. Their thinking seems to be simply that their Supreme Being exi...

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...e of oneself was affirmed, and it offered a guide for how to love others. Christian civilization then emphasized the ability to love others even mor... ...hout the millennia from all the various cultures, the Egyptians, Jews, the Christians, the Catholics – is really none other than, as Feuerbach says,... ...s: everything that within the concept of God that comes from the Hebrew or Christian mentality, or, as you expressed, opens me to life, illuminates ... ...c SELF and not to God, to that God that has been created by philosophy and theology, in other words by other men like you and me. 48 SYN... ... not yet ready for this message, so it distorted it, to accommodate Hebrew theology and Plato’s and Aristotle’s metaphysics. These are the cultural ... ...hical level, and then the Jewish people developed it on a religious level. Christianity then fused these two ways of thinking and put them on Christ...

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...isingly, many of the first spiritualists were ministers and other functionaries of Christian Churches. Three historic developments contributed to t... ...ips between objects and persons, or persons and persons. Some religions (Hinduism, Christian Science) shrug it off as an illusion, the outcome of o... ... isolated incident, or will it repeat itself? There is no reason in principle or in theology that this miracle should not recur. Actually, most "mi...

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...er teachings, nor do I wish to discuss any religion, be it Hinduism, Judaism, Christian- ity, or Islam. After all, why deal with religion when we can... ...m K A B B A L A H , S C I E N C E , A N D T H E M E A N I N G O F L I F E 212 Christian Konrad Sprengel (1750–1816) A German botanist and teacher who... ...ming clear that its wisdom governs the rest of the sciences. Sciences such as theology, philosophy and mathematics re- ceive their principles and roo...

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...Most modern Christians will have parents, wives, children, friends or other relations who are not believers, either because of indifference or adherence to another faith or even hostility to religion in general. If traditional ‘damnation...

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...The only viable theology of redemption is therefore Universalism. It cannot resolve all the theological problems that face ethical monotheists but it does offer a far more promising basis for attempting to do so and renders some of the diffi...

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...The Case for Universal Redemption Briefly Stated • The Horrific Claims of Damnationist Christianity p2 • Biblical Support for Universalism p6 • Damnationist Proof Texts p14 • Damnationism makes God a Moral Monster p16 • Damnationism Denies God’s Omnipotence p21 • Damnationism Denies the Efficacy of the Cro...