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... experience have produced the world's richest and most extensive literature. In this collection of over 3000 quotations you will discover the diversity of that literature and the fertility of religious thought, experience and practice ...
... Experience 136 78. Mysticism 138 79. Salvation and Conversion 140 80. Piety and Holiness 141 81. Devotion and Communion 142 82. Miracles 144 83. Visions 146 84. Dreams 149 XI. Spiritual Exercises 85. Prayer 151 86. Prayer for the Dead ...
... experienced in our own souls, nothing of any importance has happened. C.G.Jung, Psychology and Alchemy (1953) 22 In the peasant's world there is no room for reason, religion, and history. There is no room for religion, because to them ...
... experience of religion plays a part. There is but too much danger that the other [non-believer] will talk of religion as a blind man might of colours, or one totally devoid of ear, of a beautiful musical composition. Wilhelm Schmidt ...
... Experience (1902) 10 It would be useful to devise a term which would denote religions that have a supreme God and also worship other gods. Geoffrey Parrinder, Religion in an African City (1953) 11 For the purpose of a descriptive label ...
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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