The Religions Book

239 See also: Living in harmony 38 ■ Let kindness and compassion rule 146–47 ■ The Sikh code of conduct 296–301 T he Industrial ...

SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES DO NOT DISPROVE THE BIBLE THE CHALLENGE OF MODERNITY ...

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242 T he idea that the earth revolves around the sun, rather than the other way around, is today accepted as fact. However, in t ...

243 Romanticism valued emotion above reason and the senses above the intellect. The movement found expression in the art, litera ...

244 THE CHALLENGE OF MODERNITY Friedrich Schleiermacher identified true religion with a specific type of feeling. It was distinc ...

245 Clergymen carry a symbol of peace, indicating their opposition to nuclear arms. Critics of theological liberalism argued tha ...

246 WE CAN INFLUENCE GOD WHY PRAYER WORKS F from the earliest times, Jewish and Christian theologians have wrestled with complex ...

247 See also: The battle between good and evil 60–65 ■ Divining the future 79 ■ Devotion through puja 114–15 ■ Jesus’s message t ...

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250 F ounded in the 7th century, Islam is nevertheless regarded by its followers as an ancient faith—one that has always existed ...

251 empire to unite the disparate tribes of Arabia. Within a century of his death in 632, the Islamic Empire had expanded across ...

252 A ccording to Islamic tradition, in around 582 CE a Christian hermit, Bahira, was living in the Syrian desert when, one day, ...

253 Now in Saudi Arabia, Mecca is the holiest city of the Islamic faith since it is the birthplace of Muhammad. This is the Gran ...

THE QUR’AN WAS SENT DOWN FROM HEAVEN GOD REVEALS HIS WORD AND HIS WILL ...

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256 A ccording to the Islamic faith, God has revealed his will to humankind through nature, history, and, most importantly, his ...

257 passed them on orally. His followers memorized them in turn, but the revelations were eventually written down, sometimes by ...

258 For example, chapter 95 of the Qur’an is introduced with, “By the fig and the olive and by Mount Sinai and by this city of s ...