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The Great Misread: Life And Death In Islam And Its Relation To The West, John M. Zak
The Great Misread: Life And Death In Islam And Its Relation To The West, John M. Zak
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Details of death in the Islamic faith and how it is related to the two major monotheistic religions of the West, Judaism and Christianity.
2. Meaning As A Problem In Contemporary Religious Thought, Robert L. Bloom, Basil L. Crapster, Harold L. Dunkelberger, Charles H. Glatfelter, Richard T. Mara, Norman E. Richardson, W. Richard Schubart
2. Meaning As A Problem In Contemporary Religious Thought, Robert L. Bloom, Basil L. Crapster, Harold L. Dunkelberger, Charles H. Glatfelter, Richard T. Mara, Norman E. Richardson, W. Richard Schubart
Section XXIII: Theological Meaning
To judge from the public voice and countenance of religion in America at least, there is a preoccupation in religion with happiness at the expense of meaning. But between the two poles of happiness and meaning there is considerable distance. This chapter accepts the problem of meaning as more urgent than the problem of happiness. For over against the hopeful prescriptions for the integration of the personality and of social life through religion there stands the experience of disintegration of the structure of past confidence. Desperately, theologians wrestle with ancient symbols to wrest from them new significance or reference, or …