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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... finds expression in these documents , is not to be taken as indicative of a wide body of opinion in ancient Egypt . Its significance lies rather in the fact that in a culture so hieratic in spirit as that of Egypt there was a minority ...
... finds expression in these documents , is not to be taken as indicative of a wide body of opinion in ancient Egypt . Its significance lies rather in the fact that in a culture so hieratic in spirit as that of Egypt there was a minority ...
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... finds expression as the essential theme of the great conspectus of History from the Creation down to the Settlement in Canaan , which is contained in the Hexateuch , and it continues to be the same throughout the other historical books ...
... finds expression as the essential theme of the great conspectus of History from the Creation down to the Settlement in Canaan , which is contained in the Hexateuch , and it continues to be the same throughout the other historical books ...
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... finds expression in the Vedic texts is not remarkable , when viewed comparatively , for any novel feature . Many of the constituent ideas of this Vedic estimate can be paralleled among other peoples at a like stage of cultural ...
... finds expression in the Vedic texts is not remarkable , when viewed comparatively , for any novel feature . Many of the constituent ideas of this Vedic estimate can be paralleled among other peoples at a like stage of cultural ...
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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