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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... concerned being evidently regarded as powerful beings ; but the invocation of Osiris is unique in that he is conceived as a being who had suffered and died , and his succour is sought through magical assimilation to him in his passion ...
... concerned being evidently regarded as powerful beings ; but the invocation of Osiris is unique in that he is conceived as a being who had suffered and died , and his succour is sought through magical assimilation to him in his passion ...
Page 72
... concerned with divination , ( iii ) longer texts of a literary character , although in many instances composed for ritual use , which set forth views about cosmogony , the relations of gods and men , and the nature of the underworld ...
... concerned with divination , ( iii ) longer texts of a literary character , although in many instances composed for ritual use , which set forth views about cosmogony , the relations of gods and men , and the nature of the underworld ...
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... concerned to promote the religion of Yahweh as the national faith of the Israelite people . The achievement was one of the greatest consequence for Israel , and subsequently for Christianity , for it meant in effect the creation of a ...
... concerned to promote the religion of Yahweh as the national faith of the Israelite people . The achievement was one of the greatest consequence for Israel , and subsequently for Christianity , for it meant in effect the creation of a ...
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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