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Supreme Being
About: Supreme Being is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 192 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1615 citations.
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01 Jan 1995
TL;DR: The evangelical community of ZaJre should create a climate of dialogue to promote effective collaboration between the traditional healers and modem practitioners and demonstrate a biblical healing ministry amid these conflicting approaches.
Abstract: MMMulemfo The Manianga of ZaJre believed, and still believe, in a Supreme Being called 'Nzambi Mpungu '. He is the origin of all health care, including medicinal plants. According to traditional understanding, God uses the ancestors - 'bakulu' - to reveal these plants and their use to healers for the sake of the living community. The belief in the ancestors as mediators between God and people has been dispelled by missionaries. However, there are some Manianga who, despite their Christianity, still believe that the ancestors have an important role to play in the living community. It is the task of the Church to demonstrate a biblical healing ministry amid these conflicting approaches. This implies not the banning of the practice, but its improvement according to the message of Jesus Christ. The evangelical community of ZaJre should create a climate of dialogue to promote effective collaboration between the traditional healers and modem practitioners.
30 Jun 2015
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors pointed out that religious fundamentalism is a tendency of people to stick to a set of principle ordained in their religious belief which starts taking shape from the beginning of their life after birth when they develop the cognitive perception and sense and this phenomenon is intimately connected with human identity question.
Abstract: Religion is an age old phenomenon in societies and nations in the world. Civilizations came into being across the world and fell apart from antiquity on the question of religious belief and practices. Theory of a Supreme Being, GOD, The Almighty came into human belief and perception in the early days of human history even before the inception of language. And in course of time that belief and faith came out to be all encompassing day to day life force in the process of evolution of mode of communication and in the progression of the growth of civilization the religion emerged as instrument of politics.
Religious fundamentalism is a tendency of people to stick to a set of principle ordained in their religious belief which starts taking shape from the beginning of their life after birth when they develop the cognitive perception and sense. In the life time of a human being that sense of religiosity gets ingrained in his psychology and over all behavioural pattern and this phenomenon is intimately connected with human identity question. All the recognised religions have their strict set of principles which are having positive and negative connotations. In positive sense the fundamental doctrine of a religion dictated by the Holy Scriptures make them different from other counterparts and compelling the followers to stay disciplined and united. On the other hand in negative sense religious fundamentalism gives rise to radicalization even towards terrorism since the religious sentiment is the most vibrant driving force to unite mass population towards an extreme political gain like the outcome of Zionism and subsequent world phenomenon on the rise of Al Qaeda.
Religious fundamentalism is not the sole or stand-alone reason for religious terrorism on international spectrum and among many other reasons terrorism may be a by-product of fundamentalism which is evident if we analyse the history of terrorism. Thereby we can reach to a conclusion that religious terrorism especially suicide terrorism has got very intimate connection with radicalization originated from religious fundamentalism. Historical grievances, relative deprivation, collective humiliation or even mass oppression has got its root towards terrorism by using religion as instrument or vehicle and are the outcome of collective religious hatred, manifestations of which are visible in present day suicide terrorism. Crossexamination of religious scriptures tends to make us believe that majority of religious scriptures have got violent verses, misinterpretations of those are sometime used to radicalise vulnerable population towards desperate and extreme alternative measures with profound impact on global peace and security.
01 Jan 1984
TL;DR: The story of deism is one of clandestinity, sporadic appearances and false starts, going back as far as the middle of the sixteenth century as regards the word itself, but lacking any sort of continuity until the last decades of the seventeenth as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Deism, the religious attitude typical of the Enlightenment in France, England and elsewhere, was never a religion in the usual sense, although for a short time in the French Revolution the worship of the Supreme Being was officially instituted. It was a religion for individuals, especially the educated laity, and was most often presented as the result of the individual’s unaided reflections on God and man. Its monuments are literary and philosophical, the greatest of them being, in France, Voltaire’s Dictionnaire philosophique and Rousseau’s Profession de foi du vicaire Savoyard, in Emile.1 Both date from the apogee of the French Enlightenment, the 1760s. Together with numerous other works they are the culmination of a movement which had reached maturity less than thirty years previously, with Voltaire’s Lettres philosophiques. Until then the story of deism is one of clandestinity, sporadic appearances and false starts, going back as far as the middle of the sixteenth century as regards the word itself, but lacking any sort of continuity until the last decades of the seventeenth.
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TL;DR: Rabindranath is a theistic philosopher who believed that the ultimate reality is the personal God having infinite qualities as discussed by the authors, and the positive aspect of the infinite is in 'avaitanm', in an absolute unity in which comprehension of multitude is not as in an outer receptacle but as in inner perfection that permeates and exceeds its contents like the beauty in a lotus, which is ineffably more than all the constituents of the flower.
Abstract: Rabindranath is a theistic philosopher. According to him, the ultimate reality is the personal God having infinite qualities. Tagore describes God in the following way – “Whatever name may have been given to the divine reality, it has found its highest place in the history of our religion owing to its human character giving meaning to the idea of sin and sanctity and offering an eternal background to all the ideals of perfection which have their harmony in man's own nature.” (1949: 229) Tagore's conception of theistic God is related with the religion of man. He imagines God in two ways. First of all he believes that God is beyond the humanself and the entire universe. There is no conceivable attribute of God – mental or physical. Rabindranath says – “The positive aspect of the infinite is in 'avaitanm', in an absolute unity in which comprehension of multitude is not as in an outer receptacle but as in an inner perfection that permeates and exceeds its contents like the beauty in a lotus, which is ineffably more than all the constituents of the flower.” (Ibid: 69) The supreme God is beyond our reach and is unknown and unknowable.the research make an attempt to unearth idea of ‘god’ in Rabindrath Tagore
TL;DR: Umulumgbe is a community in the South Eastern sub-tribe of the Igbo of Nigeria and is known for their strong belief in the Supreme Being who is known as Chukwu Okike as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Umulumgbe is a community in the South Eastern sub-tribe of the Igbo of Nigeria. They are known for their strong belief in the Supreme Being who is known as Chukwu Okike – the Creator and in the anc...