Publication
Imprint: Santa Rosa, Calif. : Polebridge Press, [2007], ℗♭2006. Context: Presented by Westar Institute, lecture by Karen Armstrong. Recorded June 12-15, 2006 at the Westar Summer Institute in Asilomar, California. Responsibility: Presented by Westar Institute, Lecturer, Karen Armstrong. OCLC Number: 131003433. Physical: 4 videodiscs (383 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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DVD / Front Desk
UPC
094922743909
Original publication date
2006
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CSS Library Notes
Description: Karen Armstrong observes that it sometimes seems that we are developing exactly the kind of religion that people such as the Buddha, Confucius, Laozi, Jesus and Muhammad wanted to get rid of. How, she asks, did the preoccupation with orthodoxy become so important in the Western Christian tradition? Confucian, Daoist, Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, Greek and monotheistic traditions were not much interested in metaphysics or theology, and each one of these faiths began in recoil from the violence of their time. They developed an ethic based on compassion and the Golden Rule, which they declared to be the essence of the spiritual quest. In a series of four, one and one-half hour classes, she looks in detail at the implications of this conviction to see what it has to say to us in our conflicted world.
FY2008 / jvsn
FY2008 / jvsn
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Physical description
4.75 inches
Language
Original language
English