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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This was Bahá'u'lláh's explicit conveyance of authority for the establishment of an
institutional system designed to guide , protect , and enlarge the emerging Bahá'í
community . It is principally because of this system that the Bahá'í Faith , alone ...
This was Bahá'u'lláh's explicit conveyance of authority for the establishment of an
institutional system designed to guide , protect , and enlarge the emerging Bahá'í
community . It is principally because of this system that the Bahá'í Faith , alone ...
Page 62
Abdu'l - Bahá himself had received considerable recognition from civil authorities
, but this , too , had yet to be translated into any formal acknowledgment of the
Bahá'í Faith as a viable religious system . Today , a little more than eighty years ...
Abdu'l - Bahá himself had received considerable recognition from civil authorities
, but this , too , had yet to be translated into any formal acknowledgment of the
Bahá'í Faith as a viable religious system . Today , a little more than eighty years ...
Page 216
The authority of the Universal House of Justice is vital to the faith's unity . Will it be
able to maintain Bahá'í discipline in a highly diversified and rapidly grow9. In his
Will and Testament , ' Abdu'l - Bahá ( pp . 12–13 ) called upon the Hands of the ...
The authority of the Universal House of Justice is vital to the faith's unity . Will it be
able to maintain Bahá'í discipline in a highly diversified and rapidly grow9. In his
Will and Testament , ' Abdu'l - Bahá ( pp . 12–13 ) called upon the Hands of the ...
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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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