The Bahá'í Faith: The Emerging Global ReligionExplore the history, teachings, structure and community life of the world-wide Baha'i community-what may well be the most diverse organized body of people on earth-through this revised and updated comprehensive introduction (2002). Named by the Encyclopedia Britannica as a book that has made "significant contributions to the knowledge and understanding" of religious thought, The Baha'i Faith covers the most recent developments in a faith that, in just over 150 years, has grown to become the second most wide-spread of the independent world religions. |
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Page 141
Bahá'ís believe that this first stage is already well advanced and that the turmoil
presently afflicting the world will , nent Christian thinkers developed the outlines
of what they referred to as a “ social Gospel , " in which the coming of the
Kingdom ...
Bahá'ís believe that this first stage is already well advanced and that the turmoil
presently afflicting the world will , nent Christian thinkers developed the outlines
of what they referred to as a “ social Gospel , " in which the coming of the
Kingdom ...
Page 227
Over seventy years ago Edward Granville Browne pointed out that a number of
Christian missionaries who had witnessed the failures of their efforts had begun
to resent the successes of the Bahá'í teachers who were working in the same ...
Over seventy years ago Edward Granville Browne pointed out that a number of
Christian missionaries who had witnessed the failures of their efforts had begun
to resent the successes of the Bahá'í teachers who were working in the same ...
Page 249
15 Caribbean , Bahá'ís of , 179 Carmel , Mount , 49 , 64 , 69 Chase , Thornton ,
first Bahá'í in America , 52 Chicago , 52 , 57 Chihríq , Castle of , 12 , 14 Christ .
See Jesus Christianity , xiv , xv , 1 , 2 , 3 , 25 , 132 , 140n . 15 ; Christian clergy ...
15 Caribbean , Bahá'ís of , 179 Carmel , Mount , 49 , 64 , 69 Chase , Thornton ,
first Bahá'í in America , 52 Chicago , 52 , 57 Chihríq , Castle of , 12 , 14 Christ .
See Jesus Christianity , xiv , xv , 1 , 2 , 3 , 25 , 132 , 140n . 15 ; Christian clergy ...
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| Title | The Bahá'í Faith: The Emerging Global Religion |
| Authors | William S. Hatcher, James Douglas Martin |
| Publisher | Baha'i Publishing, 2002 |
| ISBN | 1931847061, 9781931847063 |
| Length | 253 pages |
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