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The Milinda Panha

The Milinda Panha – Thomas William Rhys Davies

The Mininda Panha, or ‘The Questions of the King Milinda” are a classical Pali text describing how Menander embraced the Buddhist faith while discussing with the Buddhist sage Ngasena. He is described as constantly accompanied by a guard of 500 Greek (“Yonaka”) soldiers, and two of his counsellors are named Demetrius and Antiochus. This type of discussion was known to ancient Greeks as a “sozo”, it is important for Buddhists to understand the cultural context in which this discussion was held.

The Milinda Panha

The Milinda Panha

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The Milinda Panha.

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The Pali Canon  (from wikipedia.com)

The Pāli Canon (Pali: Tipitaka, Sanskrit: IAST: Tripiṭaka) is … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Book Of Genesis

The Book Of Genesis – James Hastings

Here is a gold mine for the preacher, the teacher and the father and mother in the home who have it in mind to inculcate sound teaching, based upon the Word of God, so that the boys and girls of the congregations, Sunday-Schools and households may be thoroughly rooted and grounded in the essentials of the Christian faith. There are many volumes in this series of short addresses and they cover the entire range of the Holy Scriptures, from Genesis to Revelation. The material gathered here is fresh and varied and there is just enough of it to furnish the groundwork of the preacher’s sermon, the Sunday school teacher’s talk and the parent’s Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Sacred Writings of Pseudo-Clementine Literature

The Sacred Writings of Pseudo-Clementine Literature

The name “Pseudo-Clementine Literature” (or, more briefly, “Clementina” ) is applied to a series of writings, closely resembling each other, purporting to emanate from the great Roman Father. But, as Dr. Schaff remarks, in this literature he is evidently confounded with “Flavius Clement, kinsman of the Emperor Domitian.” These writings are two in number: (1) the Recognitions, of which only the Latin translation of Rufinus has been preserved; (2) the Homilies, twenty in number, of which a complete collection has been known since 1853. Other writings may be classed with these; but they are of the same general character, except that most of them show the influence of a later age, adapting the material Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Clairvoyance

Clairvoyance – C. W. Leadbeater

Clairvoyance means literally nothing more than “clear-seeing,” and it is a word which has been sorely misused, and even degraded so far as to be employed to describe the trickery of a mountebank in a variety show. Even in its more restricted sense it covers a wide range of phenomena, differing so greatly in character that it is not easy to give a definition of the word which shall be at once succinct and accurate. It has been called “spiritual vision,” but no rendering could well be more misleading than that, for in the vast majority of cases there is no faculty connected with it which has the slightest claim to be honoured by so Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Sacred Writings of Eusebius Pamphilus

The Sacred Writings of Eusebius Pamphilus

This edition comprises the following works: ‘The Church History’ or ‘Ecclesiastical History’ – Eusebius and Pamphilus wrote the first surviving history of the Christian Church as a chronologically-ordered account, based on earlier sources complete from the period of the Apostles to their own epoch. This “historical account” has much of Eusebius’s own theological agenda intertwined with the factual text including his view on God, Christ, the Scriptures, the Jews, the church, pagans, and heretics. ‘The Life of Constantine’ (Vita Constantini) is a eulogy or panegyric, and therefore its style and selection of facts are affected by its purpose, rendering it inadequate as a continuation of the Church History. As the historian Socrates Scholasticus said, Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Sacred Writings of St. John of Damascus

The Sacred Writings of St. John of Damascus

“Concerning the Orthodox Faith”, the third book of the “Fountain of Wisdom”, is the most important of John Damascene’s writings and one of the most notable works of Christian antiquity. Its authority has always been great among the theologians of the East and West. Here, again, the author modestly disavows any claim of originality – any purpose to essay a new exposition of doctrinal truth. He assigns himself the less pretentious task of collecting in a single work the opinions of the ancient writers scattered through many volumes, and of systematizing and connecting them in a logical whole. It is no small credit to John of Damascus that he was able to Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On Isaiah 49 – 66

John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On Isaiah 49 – 66 – John Calvin

Calvin produced commentaries on most of the books of the Bible. His commentaries cover the larger part of the Old Testament, and all of the new excepting Second and Third John and the Apocalypse. His commentaries and lectures stand in the front rank of Biblical interpretation. All who take delight in the Holy Scriptures are familiarly acquainted with the writings of The Prophet Isaiah. Every variety of taste finds in them its appropriate gratification. Lofty conceptions, illustrated by splendid imagery, and clothed in language usually copious and flowing, some times abrupt, but always graceful, leave no room for hesitation to pronounce him, with Bishop Lowth, to be “the Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On The Book Of Hosea

John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On The Book Of Hosea – John Calvin

Calvin produced commentaries on most of the books of the Bible. His commentaries cover the larger part of the Old Testament, and all of the new excepting Second and Third John and the Apocalypse. His commentaries and lectures stand in the front rank of Biblical interpretation. This book embraces the most difficult portion, in some respects, of THE OLD TESTAMENT, and of that portion, as acknowledged by all, the most difficult is THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET HOSEA. Probably no part of Scripture is commonly read with so little benefit as THE MINOR PROPHETS, owing, no doubt, to the obscurity in which some parts are involved. That there Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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A Textbook Of Theosophy

A Textbook Of Theosophy – C. W. Leadbeater

Theosophy is not only a basis of religion; it is also a philosophy of life. As such, its main teachings are reincarnation and the law of Karma. Karma is the outcome of the collective life, a law of ethical causation. In the past incarnation the ego had acquired certain faculties, set in motion certain causes. The effect of these causes and of causes set in motion in previous incarnations and not yet exhausted are its Karma and determine the conditions into which the ego is reborn. Thus inequalities of natural gifts, e.g. genius, of temperament and of character are explained. The law of progress is the law of involution and evolution, the Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Sacred Writings of St. Anselm

The Sacred Writings of St. Anselm

“The Sacred Writings Of …” provides you with the essential works among the Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until medieval times. The present volume of St. Anselm’s most important philosophical and theological writings contains: (1) The Proslogium (2) the Monologium, (3) the Cur Deus Homo, and (4) by way of historical complement, an Appendix to the Monologium entitled In Behalf of the Fool by Gaunilon, a monk of Marmoutiers.

The Sacred Writings of St. Anselm

The Sacred Writings of St. Anselm

 

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The Sacred Writings of St. Anselm.

ISBN: 9783849675455.

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Biography of St. Anselm (from wikipedia)

Anselm of Canterbury, also called Anselm of Aosta (Italian: Anselmo d’Aosta) … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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