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Roger Prentice
- Fundamentalism and the Bahá’í Faith: The Chapter Karen Armstrong Might Have Written in Her Book The Battle for God Session #28 · 2000 We live in a troubled world characterized by warring ideologies as well as warring peoples. Such conflicts traditionally include rationalism and faith, where "faith" is seen as "Churchianity" and its jurisprudence and au…
- Hallowing of the critical and the blessedness of creativity: via `spiritualization as dialectical process’ as the mystical heart of education Session #36 · 2001 "The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of mystery." Huston Smith 1 If the purpose of the Revelation of Bahá'u'llah is to bring about the spiritualization of humankind then the processes of educatio…
- The Mystical Heart of Knowing: Toward a worthy, Baha’i-inspired, epistemological model Session #38 · 2001 (God's) purpose, however, is to enable the pure in spirit and the detached in heart to ascend, by virtue of their own innate powers, unto the shores of the Most Great Ocean. (Baha'u'llah: Gleanings, Page: 71) The larger …
- Earthing Heaven Session #42 · 2002
- Logic Chopping or Mystical Union: In what direction might Bahá’í-inspired philosophy of education go? Session #48 · 2003 ".the core of religious faith is that mystic feeling which unites man with God.." LofG p.544 Logic-chopping = to bandy words; to altercate. "Chop-logic" is dialectic banter in which confinement to particular meanings of …
- The Spirituality of Cinematic Experience Session #54 · 2004 Cinema has been referred to as the one true art form developed in the 20th Century. What kind of connections might cinematic art be said to have with the social and spiritual teachings of the Bahá'í Faith? Mainly with re…
- Spiritualizing Pedagogy: Mystical and Ontological Aspects of Bahá’í-inspired Education Session #58 · 2004 · Lights Vol. 6 · PDF Can we create a spiritualizing pedagogy in a world that is culturally and religiously very diverse? Does the post-modern assertion that there can no longer be a (satisfying) grand narrative render such a project futile? …
- New circusí as metaphorical embodiment of the mystical and the aesthetic with special reference to La Cirque du Soleil Session #62 · 2005 Self-indulgent, bourgeois kitsch or a new multi-media art form to rank with grand opera: is the 'new circus' an art form worthy of serious consideration? In recently discovering this new art form I have been deeply affec…