Word: religion
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Maimonides' last major work was the Guide, which has long been the subject of dispute. Alvin Reines, a radical Reform rabbi in the U.S., thinks that Maimonides wrote on two levels, presenting the literal meaning of the Scriptures for the ignorant rabble while holding to a hidden antimiraculous religion in which God was an impersonal concept. Drawing on Maimonides' writings, more conventional scholars hold that the Rambam, though committed to traditional Judaism, sought to harmonize it with philosophy and science...
...sailing is like zen, the Harvard-Radcliffe sailing team learned to become masters of that religion this season...
Harvard officials said this week they are negotiating with the Episcopal Divinity School to purchase graduate student dormitories the religion school owns at 37-39-41 Kirkland...
...Religion sparks a plethora of comments as well, including some of a surprisingly serious nature...
...When you have one person in class it's not as valuable in that you don't have as much give and take--there is much more discussion when you have three of four," says Aga Khan Professor of Iranian Richard N. Frye, who teaches Iranian 177, "State and Religion in Pre-Modern Iran." Fuller agrees, "The dynamics really change substantially from when you have four students to when you have three students. It affects your ability to play them off against each other in terms of getting them to see other points of view...