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Abstract:
Essays on religious unity, interreligious dialogue, apophatic and liberation theologies, the spiritual foundations of science, the hermetic tradition, and existential theism.
Notes:
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Revisioning the Sacred:

New Perspectives on a Bahá'í Theology

Jack McLean, editor

published in Studies in the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions

Volume 8, 230 pages

Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1997

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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  xi

Introduction
J.A. McLean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

The Bahá'í Principle of Religious Unity: A Dynamic Perspectivism
Dann J. May . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  1

The background and Centrality of Apophatic Theology in Bábí and Bahá'í Scripture
Stephen N. Lambden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  37

Bahá'u'lláh and Liberation Theology
Juan R. I. Cole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

The Spiritual Foundations of Science
Anjam Khursheed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Interreligious Dialogue and the Bahá'í Faith: Some Preliminary Observations
Seena Fazel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  127

Hermes Trismegistus and Apollonius of Tyana in the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh
Keven Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  153

The Possibilities of Existential Theism for Bahá'í Theology
J. A. McLean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Bibliography (see full scan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Contributors (see full scan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Front matter: Cover, Contents, Acknowledgements, Introduction (from books.google.com)

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