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Abstract: Exploration of Bahá'í teachings, inspired by the Guardian's call to "analyse the principles of the Faith and to correlate them with the modern aspects of philosophy and science," and on the thought of Oswald Spengler, Arnold Toynbee and Pitirim Sorokin. Notes: Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #137 (Bosch, 2016). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/137/kluge_metahistory. |
Grand Narratives and the Bahá'í Writings
by Ian Kluge
published in Lights of Irfan, 18, pages 215-350Wilmette: Haj Mehdi Arjmand Colloquium, 2017
Abstract: This paper takes its cue from Shoghi Effendi, who calls on Bahá’ís “to investigate and analyse the principles of the Faith and to correlate them with the modern aspects of philosophy and science.” He reinforces this point by saying the Cause needs more Bahá’í scholars, people with a deep grasp of the Teachings and their significance who can correlate its beliefs with current world problems.
Download: lights18_kluge_grand_narratives.pdf.
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