2012
DOI: 10.4324/9780203123294
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The Routledge Companion to Theism

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“…Quay (2003) explained that knowledge in life comes from two sources, God's experience and expertise that comes from humans themselves. In line with the opinion of Gwen (2012) and Quay (2003), religious teachings do not spread on their own; rather, there is an intervention from human reason that helps to spread spiritual knowledge. The spread of earthly knowledge is inseparable from God.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 79%
“…Quay (2003) explained that knowledge in life comes from two sources, God's experience and expertise that comes from humans themselves. In line with the opinion of Gwen (2012) and Quay (2003), religious teachings do not spread on their own; rather, there is an intervention from human reason that helps to spread spiritual knowledge. The spread of earthly knowledge is inseparable from God.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 79%
“…According to the hymns of the Rig Veda for mythology, the most important deities were Agni, the god of Fire, intermediary between the gods and humans; Indra, the god of Heavens and War, protector of the Aryans against their enemies; Surya, the Sun god; Vayu, the god of Wind; and Prthivi, the goddess of Earth. The hymns of the Rigveda, praises the gods successively as the "one ultimate, supreme God", alternatively as "one supreme Goddess", thereby asserting that the deities were nothing but pluralistic manifestations of the same concept of the divine God (Graham, 1993;Taliaferro, Harrison, & Goetz, 2012). However, the Rig Veda does not have the underlying prin-ciple to connect all these polytheistic deities and the clear and detailed description of the ultimate divine God, so Vedism is still considered to be polytheism.…”
Section: Vedism With the Vedasmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…People who have reached the level of selfactualization become fully human, satisfying needs that others merely glimpse or never view at all. They are natural in the same sense that animals and infants are natural; that is, they express their basic human needs and do not allow them to be suppressed by culture/ (Center, 2005).…”
Section: The Esteem Needsmentioning
confidence: 99%