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 68
Similarly , his administrative order would be erected first in a social milieu
characterized by materialism , lawlessness , and political corruption . There , as
had already occurred in Persia , Bahá'u'lláh would demonstrate that it is only the
power ...
Similarly , his administrative order would be erected first in a social milieu
characterized by materialism , lawlessness , and political corruption . There , as
had already occurred in Persia , Bahá'u'lláh would demonstrate that it is only the
power ...
Page 85
The last two categories , the laws and the institutions , together constitute a
system called the “ Administrative Order of Bahá'u'lláh . ” The purpose of the
Administrative Order is to safeguard the unity of the Bahá'í community as well as
to serve ...
The last two categories , the laws and the institutions , together constitute a
system called the “ Administrative Order of Bahá'u'lláh . ” The purpose of the
Administrative Order is to safeguard the unity of the Bahá'í community as well as
to serve ...
Page 146
They believe that the nucleus and pattern of this future global system already
exist in the laws and Administrative Order conceived by the founder of their faith
and implemented and developed by ` Abdu'l - Bahá and Shoghi Effendi . For this
...
They believe that the nucleus and pattern of this future global system already
exist in the laws and Administrative Order conceived by the founder of their faith
and implemented and developed by ` Abdu'l - Bahá and Shoghi Effendi . For this
...
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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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