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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... constituted the state in its divinely decreed lot of establishing the temples of the gods and maintaining their service , and , on the personal plane , it connoted the part , exalted or lowly , which the individual was chosen to perform ...
... constituted the state in its divinely decreed lot of establishing the temples of the gods and maintaining their service , and , on the personal plane , it connoted the part , exalted or lowly , which the individual was chosen to perform ...
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... constituting a new religion , the holding of which necessitated a break with Judaism . Instead , we are informed that ... constituted by the existence in the primitive sources of contradictory traditions concerning the attitude of Jesus ...
... constituting a new religion , the holding of which necessitated a break with Judaism . Instead , we are informed that ... constituted by the existence in the primitive sources of contradictory traditions concerning the attitude of Jesus ...
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... constituted the basic principle or soul of the universe . A variant of this interpretation of the nature and destiny of the individual soul is found in the Sankhya philosophy of India and in the Gnostic systems of the Graeco - Roman ...
... constituted the basic principle or soul of the universe . A variant of this interpretation of the nature and destiny of the individual soul is found in the Sankhya philosophy of India and in the Gnostic systems of the Graeco - Roman ...
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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