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Some eras have been particularly critical for God's history. During the so- called Axial Age (800 B.C. to 200 B.C.), political and economic changes led to new religious ideologies throughout the known civilized world: Taoism and Confucianism in China, Buddhism and Hinduism in India, the rational philosophy of Plato and Aristotle in Greece, differing concepts of monotheism in Israel and in Iran (Zoroastrianism). Common to all these ideologies was what Armstrong calls "the duty of compassion," meaning authentic religious experiences must be integrated into everyday life. The Axial Age was a time of prosperity, when power was passing from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Man Created God | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

...tasteful capital letters elevate this football game into something vaguely historic, like The Hundred Years War. The Game is capitalized, as if it were a philosophy like Taoism or a nation like America...

Author: By Bob Cunha, | Title: More Like Art Than Science | 11/21/1992 | See Source »

...major religions of Singapore are Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity and Taoism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Singapore Facts | 7/24/1987 | See Source »

...tasteful capital letters elevate this football match into something vaguely historic, like The Hundred Years War. The Game is capitalized, as if it were a philosophy like Taoism or a nation like America...

Author: By Bob Cunha, | Title: The Poetry of The Game | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

...Hung also turned to traditional Chinese philosophy in his search for some stability in a "country that was like a madhouse." He studied Taoism, which holds as its central principle that power lies in the mind, in the self, and not in action. "I don't think I achieved the inner peace of the Taoists, but I tried," remembers Wu Hung...

Author: By Allison L. Jernow, | Title: The Fine Arts of Calligraphy and Counterrevolution | 11/20/1986 | See Source »

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