Karen Armstrong - A History of God--The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

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<strong>The</strong> Jews Settle in Eastern France <strong>and</strong> Germany 500-1100 8
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Page 6: The Kingdom of Israel and Judah 722
Page 10: Arabia and Environs at the time of
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Page 36: 19 The spirit of this epiphany is c
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Page 48: 25 He did as he was told but [that
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33 that was the admiration of their
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35 Listen (shema), Israel! Yahweh i
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37 The political situation was dete
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39 to the victory of Baal over Lota
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41 The work of the Priestly traditi
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43 eternally from the First Cause.
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45 So strong was their sense of pre
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47 human blood is regarded as if he
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49 'powers' too. By faith, of cours
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51 When Paul explained the faith th
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53 cardinal sin of impiety by break
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55 even 'God' was inaccessible to u
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57 by believing that the Christian
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59 We here, for our part, must put
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61 from all other beings and of exc
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63 descended into the abode of demo
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65 the whole, and my eyes are fille
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67 are obsessed with 'things accust
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69 'sacred veils' that hid the inef
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71 to the Son, giving up everything
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73 Arabian pantheon whose name simp
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75 Thus when We recite it, follow t
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77 build a fine tradition of natura
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79 of mankind. Later, however, Taba
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81 Koran does not condemn other rel
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83 All Muslims have a duty to make
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85 sense of the divine into the lif
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87 order to impose the Mutazili bel
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89 first, they concentrated on natu
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91 this Muslim ideal. Al-Farabi was
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93 corresponded with Sophia, the di
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95 some of the really base and triv
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97 refuted by an expert in their ow
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99 distinguish the God that Jews ar
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101 he is far more than anything th
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103 equality of the Father and the
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105 parts of the mind. This was dan
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107 God reflects an important relig
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109 The 'orchard' refers to the mys
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111 The symbol of an ascent indicat
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113 Not everybody could achieve the
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115 love affair, sacrificing his ow
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117 Suhrawardi is often called the
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119 creatures: 'If you love a being
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121 The man of God was equally at h
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123 Friend. No Throne Mystic would
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125 The Tree of the Sefiroth Some K
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127 combine the letters of the divi
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129 to Greek theology, enshrined or
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131 rarely attempted before. He saw
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133 Jews who had settled in the Ott
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135 4. Din (Judgement); Hesed (Merc
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137 speculations made God sound ali
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139 knowledge and certainty,' he pr
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141 will springs from an anthropomo
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143 many felt paralysed and distres
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145 disciples not to take this myth
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147 came to believe that they could
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149 cannot be certain of anything i
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151 because God had brought forth m
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153 inadequacies of such an anthrop
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155 Enlightenment brought emancipat
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157 Its wishes,' Jesus tells her. '
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159 violating the current sexual co
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161 year of 1666, a Jewish Messiah
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163 How did the two Gods relate to
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165 all-pervasive presence of God:
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167 view. Once they had gone beyond
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169 Holbach attempted his own histo
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171 especially in an ethical contex
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173 incarnate in the world, has muc
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175 faith in science, which seemed
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177 progress by forcibly relegating
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179 The present state of the world
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181 The new confidence brought by e
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183 and the rocks paved by hand, st
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185 statements to which Ayer referr
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187 been transformed into a new the
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189 place of encounter in the tiny
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191 sense of the God of compassion.
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193 Sufis and Kabbalists have long
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195 Banat al-Lah (Arabic) The Daugh
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197 Kabah (Arabic) The cube-shaped
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199 Talmud (Hebrew) Literally, 'stu
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201 19. Exodus 3:14. 20. Exodus 19:
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203 46. Jeremiah 32:15. 47. Jeremia
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205 4. Matthew 5:17-19. 5. Matthew
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207 10. Anthanasius, On the Incarna
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209 15. Koran 24:1, 45. 16. Koran 2
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211 36. Summa Theologiae ia, 13, 11
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213 57. Scholem, Major Trends in Je
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215 (Cambridge Mass., and London, 1
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217 50. Ibid. p. 130. 51. Ibid. 52.
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219 11 - Has God a Future? 1. Peter
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