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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... present time most appropriate for making a study of that development . The Bahá'í Faith is , therefore , a religion of modern times and is naturally more accessible for study and understanding than the older religions . * Most recently ...
... present time most appropriate for making a study of that development . The Bahá'í Faith is , therefore , a religion of modern times and is naturally more accessible for study and understanding than the older religions . * Most recently ...
Page 94
... present work . The interested reader is referred to ' Abdu'l - Bahá's statements on the subject . See ' Abdu'l - Bahá , Promulgation of Universal Peace , pp . 107 , 216-217 , 238- 239 ; Paris Talks , no . 46 ; ' Abdu'l - Bahá in Canada ...
... present work . The interested reader is referred to ' Abdu'l - Bahá's statements on the subject . See ' Abdu'l - Bahá , Promulgation of Universal Peace , pp . 107 , 216-217 , 238- 239 ; Paris Talks , no . 46 ; ' Abdu'l - Bahá in Canada ...
Page 141
... present - day societies fail to meet our real needs because they are founded on attitudes and practices that are contrary to Divine Law . Thus , at the same time that God is establishing his promised Kingdom on earth , he is also ...
... present - day societies fail to meet our real needs because they are founded on attitudes and practices that are contrary to Divine Law . Thus , at the same time that God is establishing his promised Kingdom on earth , he is also ...
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