Man and His Destiny in the Great Religions: An Historical and Comparative Study Containing the Wilde Lectures in Natural and Comparative Religion Delivered in the University of Oxford, 1954-1957 |
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... animals which he hunted , but it also appears to witness to a feeling of kinship with them . This sentiment finds expression in a number of figures of what appear to be men dis- guised as animals . The most celebrated of these figures ...
... animals which he hunted , but it also appears to witness to a feeling of kinship with them . This sentiment finds expression in a number of figures of what appear to be men dis- guised as animals . The most celebrated of these figures ...
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... animals , namely , his sense of time . So far as can be estimated , even the more highly developed animals , such as the dog , live their lives immersed in the here - now experience of each successive moment of the present their powers ...
... animals , namely , his sense of time . So far as can be estimated , even the more highly developed animals , such as the dog , live their lives immersed in the here - now experience of each successive moment of the present their powers ...
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... animals , transformed into an over - seeing sun - god , protector of the fertility of Nature in general and that of animals in particular ' , R. Pettazzoni , The All - Knowing God , p . 448. Pettazzoni here follows other scholars in ...
... animals , transformed into an over - seeing sun - god , protector of the fertility of Nature in general and that of animals in particular ' , R. Pettazzoni , The All - Knowing God , p . 448. Pettazzoni here follows other scholars in ...
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¹ Cf Accordingly Ahriman Ahura Mazdah Allah ancient Anthropologie religieuse appears ātman belief body Brandon Buddhist Buddhist Thought burial Chinese Christian concept concerned cult culture dead death deity divine doctrine Duchesne-Guillemin earth Egypt Egyptian Enkidu Enûma elish Epic of Gilgamesh Erman eschatology essential evidence evil existence expression fact faith fate funerary Gilgamesh gods gospel Granet Greek Hebrew Heidel human destiny human nature idea immortality Indian individual interpretation Iranian Israel Jesus Jewish living logic Lord magical man's mankind Mercer Mesopotamian Mithra moral mortuary Muḥammad namely nature and destiny Nilsson Numen Ohrmazd Oldenberg original Osiris Palaeolithic passage Paul philosophy post-mortem primitive Pyramid Texts Reallexikon regarded Religion represented resurrection Rig-Veda rites ritual S. G. F. Brandon seems significance Söderblom soteriology soul Speleers suggests Sumerian surely thou tion tomb tradition trans Upanisad Vedic Weltanschauung Widengren Yahweh Yahwist Yasna Zaehner Zarathustra Zeus Zoroastre Zurvan