{"title":"Review of The Lab, the Temple, and the Market","authors":"G. Eyford","doi":"10.31581/jbs-12.1-4.453(2002)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31581/jbs-12.1-4.453(2002)","url":null,"abstract":"Edited by: Sharon HarperPublished by: International Development Research Centre, Ottawa/KumarionPress, West Hartford, Conn., 2000, 300 pages.","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121749247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Three Stages of Divine Revelation","authors":"G. Sinclair","doi":"10.31581/jbs-12.1-4.451(2002)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31581/jbs-12.1-4.451(2002)","url":null,"abstract":"In God Passes By, Shoghi Effendi briefly summarizes the contents of Bahá’u’lláh’s Kitáb-i-Íqán, stating (inter alia)that the Kitáb-i-Íqán “adumbrates and distinguishes between the three stages of Divine Revelation.” This paperseeks to explore the meaning of this short phrase, by discussing what Shoghi Effendi means by “Divine Revelation”and by locating the three stages in the Íqán itself. The paper then sketches some doctrines of Sufi philosopherswhich provide important background to understanding the significance of Bahá’u’lláh’s three stages, and attempts to articulate one understanding of the passage in the Kitáb-i-Íqán, read together with Shoghi Effendi’s interpretation.","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129501751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creation","authors":"Lasse Thoresen","doi":"10.31581/jbs-12.1-4.452(2002)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31581/jbs-12.1-4.452(2002)","url":null,"abstract":"Divine creation moves from implicit and transcendent oneness to explicit and manifest multiplicity. To contribute to the creation of a new civilization as a researcher or as an artist means to make oneself available for participation inthis process of neverending unfolding. The divine Names are the eternal archetypes organizing the material world. Divine Names are not concepts; they are tools for invoking the animated presence of a particular aspect of thecreative force, thus enabling dialogue between thinking processes and reality. Such a dialogue favors a presuppositionless, susceptive attitude to reality as more adequate than the imposition of preconceived methodological assumptions.","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125269642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Response to the Doctrine of the Unity of Existence","authors":"Keven Brown","doi":"10.31581/jbs-11.3-4.469(2001)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31581/jbs-11.3-4.469(2001)","url":null,"abstract":"The specific doctrine of the “unity of existence” (wahdat al-wujúd) in Islam originated with the teachings of the Sufi master Ibn ‘Arabí, and it soon became widely accepted by other Sufis. Among the philosophers it had a notable influence on the ideas of Mullá Sadrá whose al-Asfár al-Arba‘a (The Four Journeys), remains at the center of traditional philosophical studies in Iran. Thedoctrine holds that existence (wujúd) belongs only to God, while the essences of all other things are uncreated manifestations or self-determinations of God’s hidden being. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá states that although the evidence for this viewpoint is complete and perfect from a certain perspective, relative to the station of the mystic, a higher stage exists wherein the mystic beholds only God while recognizing the essences of things as created and distinct from His Essence.","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"372 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120877124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fact and Fiction","authors":"Bahiyyih Nakhjavani","doi":"10.31581/jbs-10.3-4.449(2000)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31581/jbs-10.3-4.449(2000)","url":null,"abstract":"We have inherited an uneasy legacy of tension, in the East and West, between “fact” and “fiction,” between objective history and our many relative and subjective “stories,” between art as the representation of reality and faith based on the Word of God. Depending on how this tension has been “read” and “written” into action, our civilizations in the past have produced beauty or horror, high culture or blind prejudice. But while we may have inherited “facts” like these from the past, our future can only be created by the power of the imagination to believe, by the spiritual force of our lives which material civilization calls “fictions.” As Bahá’ís and believers in the cycle of Divine Unity, we have inherited a weighty responsibility to resolve this tension creatively and our common future, as a dynamic, diverse, and spiritual civilization, depends on it. The task of distinguishing “fact” from “fiction” in an age of maturity is a shared one. The question that must shape our words and deeds at the present hour, therefore, is not only who will write the future but also who will read it.","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114847422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Religious Foundations of Civil Society","authors":"Wendy Heller","doi":"10.31581/jbs-10.1-2.448(2000)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31581/jbs-10.1-2.448(2000)","url":null,"abstract":"This article (part 1 of 2) explores, from a Bahá'í perspective, the loss of a transcendent ethical basis as a central problem of modern social theory. It discusses religion as the source of society’s moral foundations and its organizing principles of order, law, and governance. Through an analysis of John Locke’s writings on religion and government, the foundations of the concept of civil society are traced to the idea of covenant as embedded in the natural law tradition. Civil society and theocracy are compared, and the implications of dissent and divisive conflict in a consent-based theory of religious toleration are discussed. The article concludes with the collapse, in modernity, of the religious foundations and the disintegration of the classical concept of civil society.","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134229738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Image of the Mystic Flower","authors":"Julie Badiee","doi":"10.31581/jbs-10.1-2.447(2000)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31581/jbs-10.1-2.447(2000)","url":null,"abstract":"The most recently constructed Bahá’í House of Worship, situated in Bahapur, India, was dedicated in December 1985. The attractive and compelling design of this building creates the visual effect of a large, white lotus blossomappearing to emerge from the pools of water circled around it. The lotus flower, identified by the psychiatrist Carl Jung as an archetypal symbol, carries with it many meanings. This article will explore these meanings both in the traditions of the Indian subcontinent and in other cultures and other eras. In addition, the article will show that the flower imagery relates also to symbols employed in the Bahá’í Writings and, while reiterating the meanings of the past, also functions as a powerful image announcing the appearance of Bahá’u’lláh, the Manifestation of God for this day.","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123762096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Baha'i Village Granary","authors":"P. Calkins, B. Girard","doi":"10.31581/jbs-8.3.445(1998)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31581/jbs-8.3.445(1998)","url":null,"abstract":"'Abdu'l-Baha's monetized village granary helps lay the systemic foundations of Baha'u'llah's spiritualized New World Economic Order for both rural and urban society. It is the capstone of God's progressive revelation of rural institutions for the sustainable use of natural resources. Village granaries are needed because agriculture has become materiallistic, industrialized, and closed to the employment of human labor. Without such granaries, the production input \"spirit\" will continue to be neglected as a guide to rural development, ecological conservation, economic stability, equitable employment, adequate institutions, and universal values. Economic projections for progressively implementing a monetized village granary on a Canadian Baha'i farm show that the problems of start-up cost, access to rural resources, and lack of reciprocity can be overcome by volunteer, apprentice, and pioneer labor, as well as by such cooperative projects as joint maple production.","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130492280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"1844 Ottoman \"Edict of Toleration\" in Baha'i Secondary Literature","authors":"M. Sours","doi":"10.31581/jbs-8.3.446(1998)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31581/jbs-8.3.446(1998)","url":null,"abstract":"In Baha'i secondary literature, it has been commonly assumed that an Imperial Edict, referred to by Christians and Baha'i authors as the \"Edict of Toleration\" issued in 1844 by the Ottoman governement permitted Jews to return to Palestine. The return of Jews to palestine was widely thought by Christian to be an important event anticipated by bibllical prophecy and heralding the Second Advent of Christ. Since the fulfilment of such a significant prophecy seemed to have been made possible by an edict issued in the very year the Baha'i era began, the Edict naturally captured the interest of Baha'is. This article examines the Edict, its origin, the evolution of ideas about it, and re-evaluates its significance.","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122170999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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