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...Forward 5 Introduction 12 Chapter 1 The Beginnings of Scripture 34 Chapter 2 The Beginnings of Everything 58 Chapter 3 The Beginnings of Life 72 Chapter 4 The Beginnings of Humanity 94 Chapter 5 The Beginnings of Sin 104 Chapter 6 The Beginnings of Faith 132 Chapter 7 ...

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...Contents Dharma as Man: The Gospel Story in Buddhist Terms Lindsay Falvey 1 Towards ‘Collaborative Theology’ – Buddhist and Christian John D’Arcy May 18 Dying Buddha, Dying Christ: An Inter-Spiritual Response to the Amelioration of Suffering through Contemplative Silence Vincent Pizzuto 31 Trans...

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more i...

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...on Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millenniu... ...lished under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with tex... ...ations, and new index, is published by the Author, Donald Broadribb, owner of the publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. T... ...ture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied wit... ...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... ...iblical studies and languages (which I had studied at UTS) to teaching the history of pre-Christian civilizations and religions. It was not long befor... ...of Christianity. Even now books concerned with Comparative Religion or the History of Religions tend to devote the giant’s share of their content to t... ...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...

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... Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life LAITMAN KABBALAH PUBLISHERS Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbal... ...ALAH PUBLISHERS Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life Translation: Chaim Ratz Proofreading: Kate Weibel Editor: Cla... ...lah Publishers E-mail: info@kabbalah.info KABBALAH, SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE Copyright © 2006 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved Publis... ...desire for pleasure has been the force behind human evolu- tion throughout our history. The desire for pleasure evolves through several stages. In th... ...ved over thousands of years and been disseminated among Kabbalists throughout history. I would like to briefly review the key points in this process... ...d motion were all formed, and how the will to receive will evolve. Our entire history is determined by the evolution of our will to receive; this ca... ...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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...Preface: This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements that need shock or...

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... [Paradiso] by Dante Aligheri, trans Charles Eliot Norton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...... 34 CANTO X. Ascent to the Sun.—Spirits of the wise, and the learned in theology.—St. Thomas Aquinas.—He names to Dante those who surround him. ...... ... O X. O X. O X. Ascent to the Sun.—Spirits of the wise, and the learned in theology.—St. Thomas Aquinas.—He names to Dante those who surround him. LOO... ... century, “ On the Celestial Hierarchy.” 21 Paulus Orosius, who wrote his History against the Pagans, at the request of St. Augustine, to defend Chri... ...ans. 25 Sigier of Brabant, who lectured, applying logic to ques- tions in theology, at Paris, in the 13th century, in the Rue du Fouarre. 26 The Chu...

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...Strauss was an early pioneer in the ongoing 'Quest of the Historical Jesus' movement, and his Life of Jesus is one of the few landmarks in the field. The first edition of Strauss' book was published in Germany in 1835, when he was only 27 years old. He focused his attention o...

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...Contents ON CHRISTIANITY, AS AN ORGAN OF POLITICAL MOVEMENT..................................4 PROTESTANTISM............................................................................................................... 39 ON THE SUPPOSED SCRIPTURAL EXPRESSION FO...

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...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A A A A AUTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP... ...UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ON... ...LISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EA IUM-EA IUM-EA IUM-EA IUM-EATER TER TER TER TER, ET ,... ...et of legendary tales undoubtedly there was, connected with the mythologic history of each separate deity. But in what sense you understood these, or ... ...y that a genus comprehends the subordinate species. He has even a personal history: he has passed through cer- tain adventures, faced certain dangers,... ... deadly enmity, to be explained only by one who should know the mysterious history of both parties from the eldest times. It is extraordinary, however... ... the publication (for such it was) secured so providentially to the Hebrew theology, two learned Jews—viz., Josephus and Philo Judaeus—had occasion to...

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...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Re...

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... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Pennsylva... ...rsity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ... for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , the Pennsylvania State University, J... ...17, E. 1. Tesor. It is divided into four books, the first, on Cosmogony and Theology, the second, a translation of Aristotle’s Ethics; the third on V... ...entury. For further particulars relating to this singular man, see Warton’s History of English Poetry, vol. i. diss. ii. and sect. ix. p 292, and th... ...ons publicly in his palace, that they might be criticized by all.” Mariana, History of Spain, b. xiii. c. 9. An account of Thibault, and two of his ... ..., with what were probably the original melodies, may be seen in Dr. Burney’s History of Music, v. ii. c. iv. His poems, which are in the French langu... ...latter of which places he entered into the Dominican order. He then taught theology in various parts of Germany, and particularly at Cologne. Thoma... ... Liber Sententiarum is highly esteemed. It contains a system of scholastic theology, so much more complete than any which had been yet seen, that it...

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...ic unitary parabola, hyperbola, ellipse at the borders between art, philosophy, rebus, and mathematics – which exist in complementariness. The School of Paradoxist Literature, which evolved around 1980s, continues through these bi-verses closed in a new lyric exact formula, but with an opening to essence. For this kind of procedural poems one can elaborate mathematical alg...

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...TABLE OF CONTENTS: CHAPTER XI ? An Inquiry whether the Apostles wrote their Epistles as Apostles and Prophets, or merely as Teachers, and an Explanation of what is meant by Apostle. The epistles not in the prophetic style. The Apos...

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............................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HA...

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...NEUROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC ................................................................................................ 34 Lecture III: THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN ............................................................................

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...m James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publ... ...ious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... movement— Its creed— Cases— Its doctrine of evil— Its analogy to Lutheran theology— Salvation by re- laxation— Its methods: suggestion— meditation— ”... ...ous in- cubation of motives— Self-surrender— Its impor- tance in religious history— Cases. LECTURE X CONVERSION—concluded Cases of sudden conversion— ... ...o escape objective stan- dards in her theological constructions— “Dogmatic theology”— Criticism of its account of God’s at- tributes—”Pragmatism” as a... ... this lectureship, I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch ... ...nature of it? how did it come about? what is its constitution, origin, and history? And second, What is its importance, meaning, or significance, now ... ...had the nervous system of the placidest cow, and it would not now save her theology, if the trial of the theology by these other tests should show it ...

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...books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its exten...

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...ER VII: THE MANSE .......................................................................................................... 48 CHAPTER VIII: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TA...

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...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...n the experience of Scots. England and Scotland differ, indeed, in law, in history, in religion, in education, and in the very look of nature and men’... ...inds us more nearly together. No Englishman of Byron’s age, character, and history would have had patience for long theological discussions on the way... ...Nor must we omit the sense of the nature of his country and his country’ s history gradually growing in the child’s mind from story and from observati... ...abated zest, and yet scarce wandered that whole time beyond two subjects – theology and love. And perhaps neither a court of love nor an assembly of d...