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In reviewing the posts over the last number of weeks, I have a request:
Would the moderators of this listserve please remind us all of the
purpose for this discussion group? I would greatly appreciate that. When
individuals come together in good spirit to learn
, personally, skip the discussions that I
find unpleasant and read the more enlightening ones. The moderators can
clarify the purpose of the list, altho' I suspect I could just look
around at all the links at the bottom and figure it out. ;-)
Yours,
Jeanine
On 9/14/2010 10:19 AM, Brill de Ramirez
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I remember a friend (then, not yet a Baha'i) in college asking me if I could
help him to understand what Baha'u'llah meant by the fear of God?
So, as a naïve but ardent 20 yr old, I sought out passages in the Writings
about the fear of God. Pretty quickly, I realized
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Don and Sen,
Thank you both for adding and deepening this thread. I have two brief thoughts:
I do not think that by fear of God is meant fear as understood within
emotional or psychological bounds. Perhaps awe comes closer.
As the essence of wisdom, the fear of God
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Maybe it's not good to speculate but does present some possibilities
for thinking.
I like this comment very much. We certainly do not want to sink into
the endless morass of medieval scholastic debates regarding the rank and
size of angels and, the proverbial, how
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Thank you for pointing us to the angel Gabriel. I've always loved that
name: such a perfect name for a boy, I've always thought. When he grows
up to be a master cellist, he is Gabriel, and when he grows up to play
shortstop for the New York Yankees, he's Gabe.
Alas,
Khazeh,
Thank you so much for this; it is greatly appreciated. I have shared it with
the friends in our region.
For all of the friends online here, I am attaching a separate copy of this
beautiful Tablet that I have ever so slightly reformatted (spacing, size of
type font, and type of font)
Regarding the new guidance regarding non-Baha'is at Feast, we have had two
experiences with this:
When visiting family in NYC, my non-Baha'i husband came with us to Feast for
the spiritual portion. Then he quietly left to spend the Administrative
portion at a nearby bookstore, returning an
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The mention of C. S. Lewis moves me to mention Charles Williams' novels: _War
in Heaven_, _Many Dimensions_, _The Place of the Lion_, Shadows of Ecstacy_,
__Descent into Hell_, _All Hallows' Eve_, and _The Greater Trumps_.
This summer, I'm reading a couple of these.
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Although it is indeed intriguing to join the many scholars and thinkers
throughout the ages who have tried to delineate the stations and capacities of
spiritual beings (St. Thomas Acquinas having been one of the most thorough), I
am now coming to appreciate more
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I love this thread. I had always read references to angels as metaphoric. I
was raised Presbyterian, so there was not much talk about literal angels. Of
course, my lens changed radically in my years living in Indian country in the
US southwest and as a scholar of
regards,
iscander micael tinto
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From: Brill de Ramirez, Susan
To: Baha'i Studies
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 6:19 PM
Subject: Happy Ridvan!
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Yes, joyous Rdivan greetings to all!
Alas, I neglected to cancel my class
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Yes, joyous Rdivan greetings to all!
Alas, I neglected to cancel my class for today. Usually I take care of
that when I put my syllabi together. I only have the one class today,
and it turned out to be a most wondrous class.
The course is Literary Criticism and
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Another parallel, although in the realm of poetry, is the Illiad: Sing, O
Muse.
Specifically in relation to Say, I have always read that as a command either
from God to the Manifestation or from God/His Manifestation to us or, most
likely, both.
I discuss this
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In stating that the center does indeed hold, I am simply affirming the
centripetal force of the sacred that binds all of creation within the
larger story of creation. Planet earth comes together within the pull
of earth's gravitation. Our solar system is held together
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I would like to note that I found the Who Is Writing the Future? essay to be
invaluable, and I fully expect that scholars in the future will turn to that
specific document as a ready clarification regarding the overall Bahá'í vision
about the ways by which religious
Susan,
May I offer a friendly amendment to your comment that those countries having
significant native populations such as the US, Canada, Australia and New
Zealand all voted against this resolution.
In fact, most of the countries of the world are predominantly indigenous
nations (e.g., most
This is an especially interesting direction for discussion. We know that there
have been many Manifestations of God throughout human existence propelling
cultures and civilizations forward. Those of written religious history, we
know more about than those of oral cultures.
Judaism has the
The late historian Vine Deloria, Jr. who passed away recently published
two very interesting books that offer Native American perspectives on
these topics:
_Evolution, Creationism, and Other Modern Myths: A Critical Inquiry_
(Fulcrum, 2002) and _Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the
Don,
What is your individual email address? I cannot tell from the post. I will
relay your question to a listserve restricted to Native Studies scholars and
will send you replies, or have folks reply directly to you.
Sandra, thank you for noting a BlackIndians website. That is a popular
When I attended the large Bahai
conference held in St. Louis
back in the 1970s, I remember one of the speakers (perhaps Board Member
Elizabeth Martin?) saying that when she had asked Hand of the Cause Bill Sears
whether the Bahais could be involved in the civil rights movement, he
said,
Khazeh,
Thank you so much for sharing the story
from 2Kings with us. Naaman was prideful in his position and
status, and yet his humility and openness is touching:
First of all, he listened to a little
child, a girl no less. This alone says much about Naaman (how much he had to
http://slate.msn.com/id/2122935/
This link gives an interesting review of the film My
Son, the Fanatic that looks at the process of young Islamic males in the
West who lean towards Islamic fundamentalism. The film emphasizes a sort
of Durkheimian anomie, aimlessness, emptiness that is
Brent, Khazeh, and others interested in this thread,
AllahuAbha!
Youre discussion may possibly be my favorite topic in relation
to the Writings and in all the religious texts with which I am familiar.
The posts on this thread make me so happy to see Bahais engaging the
idea of the
Thank you, Khazeh, for sending these sites
along. They are wonderful resources!
Susan
Dr. Susan
Berry Brill de Ramirez,Professor of English
Bradley
University, Peoria, IL 61625 U.S.A.
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Sandra,
We are newly foster-to-adopt parents of a wonderful little boy. There are many
foster children throughout the U. S. waiting for permanent homes. As long as a
child is in the foster care system, by law, their biological parents have the
right to determine the children's religion
Khazeh, thank you so much for your wonderful response to Don's very helpful
inquiry. And, Gilberto, thank you for your important question about Baha'I
ontology.
Khazeh, the first quotation that you share with us in response to Gilberto's
question must touch all of our souls online here, for
Jim,
Allah'u'Abha.
Yes, should I be able to address this issue in the form of an essay later this
summer, God willing, I would indeed respond to the stated and published
concerns.
For now, I have a book monograph that needs to be finished and at the publisher
in June, and a number of other
Dear friends,
Allah'u'Abha!
I have been following the discussions regarding the membership of our supreme
body, the Universal House of Justice. I remember these sorts of concerns that
were raised over a decade ago on the old Talisman listserve.
As a Baha'i who is also a woman and a feminist
Richard,
I'd like to weigh in on this one. Recently some solid anthropological, historical,
folklore, and African Studies work has cast doubt on whether cannibalism was really
practiced among any groups of human persons on the planet . . . barring the extreme
sado-masochistic behaviors
Patti,
You are quite right here to note that the statement need not be taken genetically.
Let me cite the original quotation, your comment, and then I'll add a couple final
thoughts on this topic.
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. . . they have
The following post was sent out to scholars in the formally hemispheric
(but increasingly global) field of aboriginal/Native/indigenous studies.
Does anyone on Baha'i Studies have any additional information on this?
Susan
Dr. Susan B. Brill de Ramirez, Professor of English
Bradley University,
Dean,
When I first saw your earlier posting
referencing sacred mythology, I was inclined to respond, but
decided to see if the thread included additional thoughts. It has a bit,
and I would like to offer my thoughts.
The very distinctions between the notions
of sacred mythology and
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