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Jack McLean
- The Dangers of Silence and the Practice of Responsible Apologetics Session #18 · 1998 Until the publication of "Des information als Methode" ("Disinformation as Method") (1995) by Udo Schaefer, Nicola Towfiqh and Ulrich Gollmer, the monograph of Bahá'í and "covenant breaker" Frederico Ficicchia's German l…
- Correlating Mystical Experience to the Knowledge of God Session #30 · 2000 In the dual perspective of philosophical theology and the psychology of religion, this paper makes the argument that mystical experience and theology ("the knowledge of God") are not two distinct and unrelated forms of a…
- The Parable of Majnun and Layli Session #36 · 2001 The story of Layli (Layla) and Majnun is the classic love tale of the Middle East which is also prized by Sufi mystics as a profound spiritual allegory of the soul's search for and ultimate union with God. The Persian po…
- Art of Rhetoric in the Writings of Shoghi Effendi Session #60 · 2005 · Lights Vol. 8 · PDF Shoghi Effendi's use of rhetoric, demonstrated mainly through epistolary, and also through table talks to pilgrims (1922-1957), corresponds to the ancient purpose of this "great prince" (Longinus) as speech/writing that …
- The Style in the Writings of Shoghi Effendi Session #60 · 2005
- The Presence of the Heroic in the Writings of Shoghi Effendi and Nabil Session #72 · 2006 In his main historical works, God Passes By and The Promised Day Is Come, and unlike detached, "objective" academic histories, Shoghi Effendi made strong moral judgments of the characters he portrayed. Those who opposed …
- Proactive Baha’i Theology: Shoghi Effendi’s Dispensation of Baha’u’llah Session #79 · 2007 · Lights Vol. 9 · PDF