Paradise and paradigm
key symbols in Persian Christianity and the Bahá'í Faith
by Christopher Buck
"In a novel approach that the author terms "symbolic paradigm analysis," Paradise and Paradigm offers a "theoretically modular" systematic comparison of two "Persian" religions: early Syriac Christianity as the foundation of the East Syrian "Church of the East" (the Nestorian Church of Persia) and the Baha'i Faith, a new world religion.
The author compares the hymns of the greatest poet of early Christianity, Saint Ephrem the Syrian, and the richly imagistic writings of the founder of the Baha'i religion, Baha'u'llah. The book employs an original analytic technique in the creation of "symbolic profiles" constructed on Ninian Smart's dimensional model of religion.
As Buck demonstrates, formal similarities between any two religions are best comprehended in terms of paradigmatic differences, which nuance all parallels through a process of symbolic transformation."--BOOK JACKET.
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Baha'i Faith, Christianity, Comparative studies, Doctrines, Heaven, History, History of doctrines, Paradise, Syrian Church, Church of the East, Bahai Faith, Symboliek, Paradijs, Bahaʼisme, Bahaismus, Theologie, Syrische Kirchen, Syrische kerken, Doctrinal Theology, Syrian churches, Ciel, Aspect religieux, Foi bahaïe, Églises syriennes, Histoire, Études comparatives, Paradis, RELIGION, Comparative ReligionTimes
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Paradise and Paradigm: Key Symbols in Persian Christianity and the Baha'i Faith (Studies in the Babi and Baha'i Religions, V. 10)
September 1999, State University of New York Press
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Paradise and Paradigm: Key Symbols in Persian Christianity and the Baha'i Faith (Studies in the Babi and Baha'i Religions, V. 10)
May 1999, State University of New York Press
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