‘Perspective’ Archives

In such wise as the corruptible body is one thing and further the immortal soul … ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN SPIRITUAL RIGHTS: Nestorius, Part 2

 Nestorius (born circa AD 386, perhaps of Persian parents, in Germanicia, a small town in … ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN SPIRITUAL RIGHTS: Nestorius, Part 1

News of disturbances among the friars in Italy reached Francis in the East and compelled … ADVOCATES OF HUMAN SPIRITUAL RIGHTS: Francis of Assisi, Part 2

All praise be yours, my Lord, through all that you have made, And first my … ADVOCATES OF HUMAN SPIRITUAL RIGHTS: Francis of Assisi, Part 1

God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all categories of human thought. … ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN SPIRITUAL RIGHTS: Joseph Campbell

What the Divine plan of his life is, man can only learn as he advances … ADVOCATES OF HUMAN SPIRITUAL RIGHTS: Robert Henry Charles

     It seems that a new religion must exalt the Sun of Life more successfully … ADVOCATES OF HUMAN SPIRITUAL RIGHTS: Jacquetta Hawkes

Even if the Torah be correctly expounded by prophet and teacher, men, it was held, … ADVOCATES OF HUMAN SPIRITUAL RIGHTS: Theodor Herzl Gaster

*   *   * Both Virgil’s act of creation and the ambivalent act of destruction and … “Man Proposes, God Disposes,” Part 2

Late in the year 40 BCE, the young Roman poet Virgil composed a poem to … “Man Proposes, God Disposes,” Part 1