The Baha'i Faith: The Emerging Global ReligionBaha'i Publishing, 2002 - 253 pages Explore 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 94
... order to enable society to encourage the efforts of those ( such as doctors or farm- ers ) whose services are especially vital to the welfare of the community ; but these differences would be established within well - defined absolute ...
... order to enable society to encourage the efforts of those ( such as doctors or farm- ers ) whose services are especially vital to the welfare of the community ; but these differences would be established within well - defined absolute ...
Page 136
... Order " of the Bahá'í Faith . It is this Administra- tive Order which provides the essential expression of Bahá'u'lláh's Lesser Covenant with humankind . 10 The distinctive feature of the Lesser Cov- enant is the fact that the founder ...
... Order " of the Bahá'í Faith . It is this Administra- tive Order which provides the essential expression of Bahá'u'lláh's Lesser Covenant with humankind . 10 The distinctive feature of the Lesser Cov- enant is the fact that the founder ...
Page 144
... Order , a stage which will come about far more gradually . Bahá'u'lláh called this final stage the " Most Great Peace . " Its advent , he said , will coincide with the emergence of the Ba- há'í World Order . Shoghi Effendi's description ...
... Order , a stage which will come about far more gradually . Bahá'u'lláh called this final stage the " Most Great Peace . " Its advent , he said , will coincide with the emergence of the Ba- há'í World Order . Shoghi Effendi's description ...
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