Encyclopedia of Religion

torically real; and (2) because it employs a specific method for taking possession of this datum and organizing its com- plex co ...

the Roman Catholic magisterium. Fundamental theolo- gy, however, starts with the facts of the Christian mes- sage and shows its ...

1961), and Die Geschichte der katholischen Theologie seit dem Ausgang der Väterzeit (Freiburg, 1933). For Anselm, see G. R. Evan ...

New Sources Davaney, Sheila Greeve. Divine Power: A Study of Karl Barth and Charles Hartshorne. Philadelphia, 1986. Gorringe, Ti ...

Shortly after Blavatsky’s death a disagreement arose about the role within the Theosophical Society of William Quan Judge (1851– ...

through its expression as the world (similar to the phi- losophy of Alfred North Whitehead), and the purpose of human life is to ...

the history of Buddhist monasticism and, second, to forms of Buddhist religious, political, and social life in various Bud- dhis ...

A ́soka’s missions to Suvan:n:abhu ̄ mi (CE, Southeast Asia) and Tambapan:n:i (CE, Sri Lanka), respectively. A ́soka’s Pillar Ed ...

passed the king’s capital within its boundaries, but later housed the monks who authored the chronicles that we now possess. Ano ...

The most influential scholar associated with this efflo- rescence, if not Therava ̄da scholasticism generally, was Bha- dantacar ...

century when, during the reign of Para ̄kramaba ̄hu I, a major reform and reorganization of the sangha was implemented. Para ̄kr ...

The newly established (thirteenth-century) Thai king- doms of La ̄nna ̄ in northwestern Thailand and Sukho ̄thai in central Thai ...

sary to give careful attention to regional and national differ- ences. In the monastic context the stage was set for the devel- ...

Thus, by the beginning of the twentieth century the var- ious fraternities that still constitute the Therava ̄da sanghas in Sri ...

used a Buddhist idiom in the rhetoric surrounding commu- nal violence between the Sinhala majority and the substantial Tamil min ...

bo, 1964); and Frank E. Reynolds and Mani B. Reynolds’s translation of Phya Lithai’s fourteenth-century cosmological treatise, T ...

became evident only in her posthumously published autobi- ography. Eighteen months before her death she manifested signs of a fa ...

as conventional representations of a universal religious phe- nomenon. SEE ALSO Animals; Shape Shifting. BIBLIOGRAPHY Therianthr ...

lian the Theurge. Much of its content is quasi-philosophical, and its account of the first principles shows affinities with the ...

gite (Pseudo-Dionysius), himself a student of the Neoplato- nist Proclus, who, after Iamblichus, was the weightiest philosophica ...