 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1876 - 590 pages
...clear that by missionary religions I meant those in which the spreading of the truth and the emversion of unbelievers are raised to the rank of a sacred duty by the founder or his immediate successors. In explaining the meaning of the word proselyte, or s, I had shown that literally it means those who... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1876 - 588 pages
...whole tenor of my lecture it would have been clear that by missionary religions I meant those in which the spreading of the truth and the conversion of unbelievers are raised to the rank of a sacred dutg bg the founder or his immediate successors. In explaining the meaning of the word proselyte, or... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Language and languages - 1881 - 684 pages
...whole tenor of my lecture it would have been clear that by missionary religions I meant those in which the spreading of the truth and the conversion of unbelievers...sacred duty by the founder or his immediate successors. In explaining the meaning of the word proselyte, or Trpoa-rfkvros, I had shown that literally it means... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Language and languages - 1881 - 620 pages
...whole tenor of my lecture it would have been clear that by missionary religions I meant those in which the spreading of the truth and the conversion of unbelievers are raised to the rank of a sacred duty l>y the founder or his immediate successors. In explaining the meaning of the word proselyte, or TrpocrrjXvTos,... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Folklore - 1890 - 586 pages
...whole tenor of my lecture it would have been clear that by missionary religions I meant those in which the spreading of the truth and the conversion of unbelievers are raised to the rank of a sacred duty l»j the founder or his immediate successors. In explaining the meaning of the word proselyte, or I... | |
 | Sir Thomas Walker Arnold - Islam - 1896 - 416 pages
...defined what the term, — j a missionary religion, — should be taken to mean, viz. one " in which the spreading of the truth and the conversion of unbelievers...sacred duty by the founder or his immediate successors. ... It is the spirit of truth in the hearts of believers which cannot rest, unless it manifests itself... | |
 | Religions - 1901 - 318 pages
...the latter class. He adds that the characteristic feature of missionary religions is that in these "the spreading of the truth and the conversion of...raised to the rank of a sacred duty by the founder. . . . It is the spirit of truth in the hearts of believers which cannot rest unless it manifests itself... | |
 | John Howard Stoutemyer - 1915 - 98 pages
...and signify one sent, or one set forth. "A missionary religion," says Max Miiller, "is one in which the spreading of the truth and the conversion of unbelievers...raised to the rank of a sacred duty by the founder or by his immediate successors." (Fortnightly Review, July, 1874.) The missionary religion can transcend... | |
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I meant those in which the spreading of the truth and the conversion of unbelievers are raised to the rank of a sacred duty by the founder or his immediate successors. 