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...family was too surprised when, at the age of seven, Khyentse Norbu was approached at his Jesuit elementary school by a group of Tibetan monks. They informed him that he had been identified as the third reincarnation of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, a lama and theologian who presided over Dzongsar Monastery in eastern Tibet in the 19th century. The monks took the young rinpoche to Sikkim, now in modern-day India, where he spent the next six years in secluded monastic tuition. He then moved to Rajpur to study at Sakya College where an American friend (now one of his producers...
...Simply his intellectual pedigree might be an issue,” Orsi said of Hehir, who has distinguished himself as a theologian. “He’s such a prodigious intellect...
...Sudanese government executed a theologian named Mahmoud Muhammad Taha for daring to question the Koran. The sages at Al-Azhar University in Egypt had found Taha guilty of apostasy for a thesis he developed in his book, The Second Mission of Islam. Taha argued that the Koran contains two categories of verses: those that the prophet Muhammad recited in Mecca and those recited in Medina. For Taha, the Medina verses, with their emphasis on legal rules, were written in a historical context that no longer exists, so Islam should instead focus on the spiritual and ethical message revealed in Mecca...
...Girls Professional Baseball League from its birth in 1943 until 1952; in New Port Richey, Florida. For six seasons, Deegan pitched and played second base for the famed Rockford Peaches, portrayed in the 1992 film A League of Their Own. NAMED. DR. ROWAN DOUGLAS WILLIAMS, 52, well known academic theologian who was previously Bishop of Monmouth, then Archbichop of Wales, and who became Oxford's youngest professor at age 36, as Archbishop of Canterbury; in London. A poet and prolific author, the most recent of Williams' books is Writing in the Dust: After September 11th. (Williams was two blocks away...
...Lahaye is many things--influential theologian, founder of a Christian school system, co-author of a sex manual with 2.5 million copies in print--but he isn't a novelist. Which is a bit strange, since he enjoys top billing on the Left Behind novels, the wildly popular books that make the end of the world fun. When LaHaye first conceived the series--entirely written by author Jerry Jenkins--he hoped to sell maybe 250,000 copies. Last year's installment alone sold 3 million, and for the first time since 1994, the author of the best-selling novel...