THE SEARCH FOR A JUST SOCIETY JOHN HUDDLESTON GEORGE RONALD 1989 PART V Chapter 5: Buddhism and the Mauryan Empire Siddhattha Gautama (563-483 BC), born the son of a king in the area that is now Nepal, knew all the material pleasures of life from an early age. Coming to manhood, He became dissatisfied …
THE SEARCH FOR A JUST SOCIETY JOHN HUDDLESTON GEORGE RONALD 1989 PART IV Chapter 4: Hinduism: A Perspective of the Universe In the Indian valley over an area of half a million square miles lived a people belonging to an advanced civilization. There were cities, built on a grid system, whose populations numbered up to …
THE SEARCH FOR A JUST SOCIETY JOHN HUDDLESTON GEORGE RONALD 1989 PART III Chapter 3: Zoroastrianism and the Persian Empire For over a thousand years one of the world’s most influential religions was Zoroastrianism, the second of the monotheistic and ethical faiths. When exactly Zoroaster lived is a matter of dispute: some argue for the …
THE EARTH IS BUT ONE COUNTRY JOHN HUDDLESTON The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United Kingdom 1976/1988 PART VII Chapter 5: A New Family Life A – The equality of men and women The Bahá’í view is that there are two essential requirements for the establishment of a just society where …
THE EARTH IS BUT ONE COUNTRY JOHN HUDDLESTON The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United Kingdom 1976/1988 PART VI Chapter 5: The waves of One Sea A – Love, Not prejudice In the last chapter the discussion dealt with the individual finding his relationship with God, with the universe and with …
Book Review Introduction In Part 5 of A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations, Clive Ponting tells us that “The 18th century was marked by a wave of optimism about the future and the inevitability of progress in every field.” “The Reverend Thomas Malthus took a much …
THE STORY OF MAN AN INTRODUCTION TO 150,000 YEARS OF HUMAN HISTORY CYRILL AYDON CARROLL & GRAF 2007 PART VIII Chapter 13: The triumph of Islam It had taken 300 years from Jesus’s first outdoor sermon for Christianity to become the official religion of a great empire. The next religion to arise in the same …
THE STORY OF MAN AN INTRODUCTION TO 150,000 YEARS CARROLL & GRAF 2007 PART V Chapter 10: The Birth of India Around 1500 BC, an invading people entered India from the north-west. They were pastoral nomads with light skins, and they called themselves Aryans. For several centuries after their arrival, these Aryans continued with a …
GREEK SUMMER 2011 MISSION. SERVICE. LEADERSHIP PART TWO Introduction This talk addresses the Millennium Development Goals; the failure of the rich countries to live up to their promises; the unnecessary loss of life, especially in Africa; the poor farming practices in much of Africa; the looming prospect of the entire continent of Africa being unable …
THE ASCENT OF MAN JACOB BROWNOWSKI MACDONALD FUTURA PUBLISHERS 1973 PART VI Chapter 6: The Starry Messenger The first science in the modern sense that grew in the Mediterranean civilization was astronomy, the science that guides us through the cycle of the seasons. All settled cultures have a calendar to guide their plans. The …
