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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... CULTURE THE SOLUTIONS OF REALISM AND FAITH In turning our attention to the Greek evaluation of man and his destiny , we have to do with a people which was racially very different from those we have been considering in the so - called ...
... CULTURE THE SOLUTIONS OF REALISM AND FAITH In turning our attention to the Greek evaluation of man and his destiny , we have to do with a people which was racially very different from those we have been considering in the so - called ...
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... cultural influences surely were , the Cretan and Mycenaean cultures are demonstrably original in genius and expression , and the Hellenic culture , which succeeded them , was essentially Indo - European . Accordingly , we may regard the ...
... cultural influences surely were , the Cretan and Mycenaean cultures are demonstrably original in genius and expression , and the Hellenic culture , which succeeded them , was essentially Indo - European . Accordingly , we may regard the ...
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... Culture ( rebirth ) , Egypt ( reincarna- tion ) , Hebrews , Greek Culture , India , Buddhism , China ) mortuary rituals ( see under religions con- cerned ) Nag Hammadi documents , 190-1 optimistic 375-7 eschatologies , significance ...
... Culture ( rebirth ) , Egypt ( reincarna- tion ) , Hebrews , Greek Culture , India , Buddhism , China ) mortuary rituals ( see under religions con- cerned ) Nag Hammadi documents , 190-1 optimistic 375-7 eschatologies , significance ...
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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