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Tag "Creation" details:

tag name: Creation type: Science: natural, social, and applied; Philosophy
web link: Creation
references: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation; bahaiquotes.com/subject/creation-world; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Creation
related tags: God; Nature; Qayyum (Self-subsisting); Universe
referring tags: Active force and its recipient; Be and it is (phrase); Causality; Dualism; Elements; Genesis (Bible); Hidden Treasure (Hadith); Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom); Monism; Primal Will; Seven stages of creation

"Creation" appears in:

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  1. Rick Johnson. Active Force and That Which Is Its Recipient, The: A Bahá'í View of Creativity (2017). — On creativity and the pervasive nature of this concept in Baha’i thought. The universe is coded to...
  2. Ross Woodman. Arc of Ascent: The Purpose of Physical Reality II, by John S. Hatcher: Review (1994).
  3. Otto Donald Rogers. Artist and the Grammarian, The (2009). — On the process and meaning of creating art; its effect on the mind and the brain, the nature of pain...
  4. Michael W. Sours. Bahá'í Cosmological Symbolism and the Ecofeminist Critique (1995). — Constituents of Baha'i cosmological symbolism; introduction to the main feminist/environmentalist ar...
  5. Dianne Bradford, Fiona Missaghian, Udo Schaefer, Robert Stockman. Jonah Winters, comp. Bahá'í Ethics: Answers to 55 Questions Submitted by Arthur Dobrin (2004). — Answers to questions submitted in preparation for a source book in religious ethics for a college co...
  6. Keven Brown. Bahá'í Perspective on the Origin of Matter, A (1990). — The origin of matter is spiritual. Science sees that, at its most fundamental level, reality is not ...
  7. Ian Kluge. Bahá'í Philosophy of Human Nature, The (2017). — How the essential reality of the individual — the human soul and its powers of rational thought, w...
  8. Joshua Hall (published as Joshua D. T. Hall). Bahá'u'lláh and the God of Avicenna (2022-03). — Comparison of the teachings of Baha’u’llah on the nature of God with the philosophy of Avicenna;...
  9. Paul Lample, comp. Bahá'u'lláh's Teachings on Spiritual Reality (1996). — The quest for spirituality, the spiritual life, material and spiritual reality, the progress of the ...
  10. Vahid Brown. Beginning That Hath No Beginning, The: Bahá'í Cosmogony (2002). — The dimensions of myth in the Baha'i Faith focussing on the religion's narratives of creation, relig...
  11. Abdu'l-Bahá. Moojan Momen, trans. Commentary on the Islamic Tradition "I Was a Hidden Treasure..." (Tafsír-i-Hadith-i-Kuntu Kanzan Makhfíyyan) (1985-12). — Translation of a treatise written by 'Abdu'l-Baha when he was in his teens, expounding on the terms ...
  12. Hooper Dunbar. Consciousness, Creation, and the Soul (1988-06-13).
  13. Lasse Thoresen. Creation (2002). — Contributing to the creation of a new civilization as a researcher or an artist means participating ...
  14. Keven Brown. Creation: The Nature of God and the Creation of the Universe in Bahá'í Cosmology (2003).
  15. Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá. Iscander Micael Tinto, comp. Creation and Evolution: A Compilation (2013). — Short compilation of passages on the creation of the universe, nature, and existence.
  16. Encyclopaedia Iranica. Arjen Bolhuis, comp. Encyclopaedia Iranica: Selected articles related to Persian culture, religion, philosophy and history (1982-2023). — Sorted, categorized collection of links to over 170 articles.
  17. John S. Hatcher. Enigmatic Questions Surrounding the Appearances of the Prophets (2011-03-29). — Issues related to the ontology and powers of the Manifestations can test the mettle of even deepened...
  18. Robin Mihrshahi. Ether, Quantum Physics and the Bahá'í Writings (2002/2003). — Analysis of ‘Abdu’l-Baha's use of the term “ether”, correlated to His definition of this ter...
  19. Universal House of Justice. Five Questions: Loss of Voting Rights, Mani, Magi, Five-Pointed Star, Joseph Smith (1991-01). — Responses to various questions. Closes with quotations on Confucianism and Genesis.
  20. Barbara Ives Reich Kochmann, comp, Richard Kochmann, comp. "He hath known God who hath known himself": A Deepening Course on the Bahá'í Revelation (2012). — A lengthy compilation by the granddaughter of Howard Colby Ives designed to be a study guide to the ...
  21. George Townshend. Heart of the Gospel: The Bible and the Bahá'í Faith (1939). — Using only the text of the Bible, Townshend provides a new reading of Scripture as a guidebook for t...
  22. Harry Liedtke. Humanity and the Universe: Mirror of the Unknown (1996/2016). — A study of the origin and nature of the universe in light of Baha'i texts; creation and evolution; c...
  23. Ross Woodman. "In the Beginning Was the Word": Apocalypse and the Education of the Soul (1993). — Hidden meanings in scripture and the soul are metaphorically identified with the huris, or brides. T...
  24. Mirza Asad'Ullah. Ali Kuli Khan, trans. Instructions Concerning Genesis and the Mystery of Baptism (n.d. (1902?)). — A short treatise on Biblical verses and symbology viewed in light of the Hidden Words and other Writ...
  25. Vahid Rafati. Keven Brown, trans. Lawh-i-Hikmat: The Two Agents and the Two Patients (2002). — Discussion of the two terms fa`ilayn (the active force / "the generating influence") and munfa`ilayn...
  26. Pierre Daoust. Le Verbe de Dieu, au coeur de l'existence (2024-06). — Le présent essai examine les pouvoirs et l'influence du Verbe de Dieu (ou Parole divine) au sein de...
  27. Brent Poirier. Lists of Articles (2009-2019). — Lists of 126 articles at the author's six blog websites.
  28. Sahba Shayani. Literary Imitation in Three Poems Attributed to Tahirih Qurrat al-ʿAyn (2023-12). — The poetry of Tahirih has largely been ignored by historians, partly from politico-religious intoler...
  29. Peter J. Khan. Material and Spiritual Worlds (2010-12). — Four talks on the Five-Year Plan given at the North Island Baha'i Summer School, Hamilton, New Zeala...
  30. Ross Woodman. Metaphor and the Language of Revelation (1997). — To enter the realm of metaphor as the language of the soul is to come into direct contact with the W...
  31. Craig Loehle. On Human Origins: A Bahá'í Perspective (1990). — The science of evolution is difficult for those who demand a literal interpretation of scripture and...
  32. Arash Abizadeh. "On Human Origins: A Bahá'í Perspective," by Craig Loehle: Commentary (1990).
  33. Keven Brown. "On Human Origins: A Bahá'í Perspective," by Craig Loehle: Response to Commentary (1994).
  34. Farjam Majd. Origins of Creation (2014). — Some classical proofs of the existence of God; the meaning of proof, types of proof, and conditions ...
  35. Susan Maneck. Prophets of Mahabad, and Nature of Creation: The Two Questions of Manakji Limji Hataria (2011). — Discussion of Baha’u’llah’s letters to Manakji Hataria as found in the Tabernacle of Unity, co...
  36. Peyman Sazedj. Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá (2009-2011). — Twenty-four translations from 2009, 2010, and 2011 copied from the defunct website peyman.sazedj.org...
  37. Todd Lawson. Qur'anic Kerygma: Epic, Apocalypse, and Typological Figuration (2022). — Article contains no mention of the Babi or Baha'i Faiths, but includes themes of relevance to Baha'i...
  38. Keven Brown. Reflection on the Theory of Alchemy as Explained in the Bahá'í Writings, A (2002/2012). — Baha'u'llah and ‘Abdu’l-Baha referred to the 'hidden craft' of alchemy as part of divine philoso...
  39. David Russell Garcia. Kees Poolman, trans. Reis naar het Hart van de Qur'án: Het Heilige Boek van de islam voor hen die nadenken (door een niet-moslim) (2022). — Een overzicht van de Koran en zijn thema's: islam versus het christendom; wetten, geestelijke en soc...
  40. Todd Lawson. Role of Wonder in Creating Identity, The (2023). — The term badi', "wondrous" or "new," is used dozens of times by the Bab in his proclamatory work the...
  41. Ahmad Aniss. Seed of Creation: A philosophical approach towards the status of Universal House of Justice in respect to Baha'i concept of creation (1998). — A philosophical approach towards the status of Universal House of Justice in respect to Baha'i conce...
  42. Keven Brown, comp. Selections from the Bahá'í Writings and from Shaykh Ahmad on the Seven Stages of Creation (2008). — Collection of quotations from the Bab, Baha'u'llah, and Shaykh Ahmad, with footnotes, on the seven s...
  43. Michael McCarron. Symbolic Cosmology in the Sufi and Bahá'í traditions (1997). — Introduction to some meanings of the various realms of God.
  44. Abdu'l-Bahá. Keven Brown, trans. Tablet of 'Abdu'l-Bahá Explaining Three Verses in the Lawh-i-Hikmat, A (2005). — Insights into three statements by Baha'u'llah on pre-existence, creation, and nature as the essence ...
  45. Abdu'l-Bahá. Bahá'í World Centre, trans. Tablet on the Unity of Existence (Sharh Wahdat al-Wujúd) (2001).
  46. Abdu'l-Bahá. Shoghi Effendi, trans. Tablet to Auguste Forel (1976). — A letter of ʻAbdu'l-Baha, in reply to questions asked by the Swiss scientist Auguste-Henri Forel, d...
  47. Bahá'u'lláh. Juan Cole, trans. Tablet to Mirza Abu'l-Fadl Concerning the Questions of Manakji Limji Hataria: Baha'u'llah on Hinduism and Zoroastrianism (1995). — Introduction to, article about, and translation of the Tablet to Maneckji.
  48. Betty Hoff Conow (published as Betty Conow). "The active force and that which is its recipient" (1988). — Metaphysics of gender and the Lawh-i-Hikmat; universal spiritualism; social indoctrination of gender...
  49. Guy Sinclair. Three Stages of Divine Revelation, The (2002). — Shoghi Effendi states that the Kitab-i-Iqan "adumbrates and distinguishes between the three stages o...
  50. Adib Masumian, trans. Translation List: Provisional Translations of Baháʼí Literature (2009-2023). — Index to talks, letters, and other items translated from Persian and Arabic to English by Adib Masum...
  51. Peter Terry. Truth Triumphs: A Bahá'í Response to Misrepresentations of the Bahá'í Teachings and Bahá'í History (1999-12). — Rebuttal of Francis Beckwith's thesis "Baha'i, A Christian response to Baha'ism, the religion which ...
  52. David Russell Garcia. Voyage to the Heart of the Koran: The Holy Book of Islám for Thinking Minds (By a Non-Muslim) (2003-10). — A lengthy overview of the Qur'an and its themes for a Baha'i audience; holy war and fighting; reason...
  53. Juan Cole. Wittgensteinian Language-Games in an Indo-Persian Dialogue on the World Religions (2015 Fall). — Reflections on Baha'u'llah's theology of previous religions and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s concept of "...
  54. Iscander Micael Tinto. Worlds of God, The (2013). — Creation is an act of divine manifestation across five realms: Hahút, the unknowable Essence of God...
 
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