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| Monotheistic Religions in Social Well-being | ||
| 作者 | Hubbard, Benjamin J. |
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| 出處題名 | Hsi Lai Journal of Humanistic Buddhism=西來人間佛教學報 |
| 卷期 | v.5 |
| 出版日期 | 2004 |
| 頁次 | 48 - 56 |
| 出版者 | International Academy of Buddhism, University of the West |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.uwest.edu/site/ |
| 出版地 | Rosemead, CA, US [柔似蜜, 加利福尼亞州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 摘要 | This paper will be a trajectory through three monotheistic religious traditions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—on the question of social justice or social well being. We will examine the roots of social justice in the scriptures of the three faiths and look at some concrete historical examples of how these scriptural ideals have been put into practice. Our trajectory through the monotheistic faiths on the question of social well being will show a remarkable consistency of concern by the three faiths for widows, orphans, the hungry and the wretched of this world. We monotheists believe that an ethical Ground of Being, a compassionate deity, is the driving force behind this three-thousand-year history of philanthropy. What unites us with Buddhists and others in the non-theistic religious world is the conviction that, without social justice, any kind of religion is but empty ritual, pomp and circumstance or, as Shakespeare expresses it on the lips of Macbeth, “…a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. |
| ISSN | 15304108 (P) |
| 點閱次數 | 75 |
| 建檔日期 | 2014.08.08 |
| 更新日期 | 2018.04.13 |
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