Dear friends on these luminous lists
I would beg you to have a look at this talk of the Archbishop of Canterbury
Dr Rowan Williams in Washington last week
http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/sermons_speeches/040329.html
Dear Sandra,
David was asking for references by Shoghi
Effendi or Abdu'l-Baha. What you've posted is by Nabil (translated
by Shoghi Effendi). This listing is merely a suggestion by Nabil
and no more. Others have suggested other individuals as Letters.
Regards,
ahang.
Please respond to
Dear Ahang (and David)...
Thank you for the clarification Ahang! Particularly, because
in God Passes By - not a translation... ;- ) - the Guardian
mentions several individuals who, in context, could to be
understood as among the Letters of the Living - on pages
10-24.
I can't help wondering;
Why do you say this is merely a suggestion by
Nabil?
- Original Message -
From:
Ahang Rabbani
To: Baha'i Studies
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 3:04
PM
Subject: Re: Letters of the Living
Dear Sandra, David was asking for references by Shoghi Effendi or
This whole issue reminds me of the twelve apostles of Jesus. Lists vary.
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"and we now
await no further newpublic revelation before the glorious manifestation of
our Lord Jesus Christ
(cf. 1 Tim 6:14 and Tit 2:13).10
True! He does state that there will be no further
new public revelations, etc. Yet, he qualifies the statement and speaks of
"manifestation". There
Hi, Khazeh,
At 09:43 AM 4/3/2004, you quoted:
Thus an early Christian was an atheist because he or she refused to be part of a
complex system in which political and religious loyalties were inseparably bound up.
Atheism was a decision to place certain loyalties above those owed to the
Dear Dean,
You wrote:
Why do you say this is merely a suggestion
by Nabil?
I think you were on Tarikh when we had
a thorough discussion of this, and hopefully you kept up with the arguments
and don't want me to reinvent the wheel now.
Nabil was in no position to know *exactly*
who the
Dear Sandra,
Ahang, can you offer an opinion on
how identification of the
Eighteen might be resolved eventually?
In my view, I don't think it can be solved.
I think we can be certain of some and will never know for sure about
others. For instance, any list of Letters of the Living will have
