Bibliography: #BIB28269

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reference type	Book Section
title	Grand Narratives and the Bahá'í Writings
book title	Lights of 'Irfán : Studies in the Principal Bahá'í Beliefs : Papers Presented at the 'Irfán Colloquia and Seminars : Book Eighteen
author	Kluge, Ian
Authority control 1	Ian Kluge
authority control	Ian Kluge
year	2017
publisher	'Asr-i-Jadíd Publisher
place published	Darmstadt, Germany
ISBN	9783942426329
abstract	The doctrine of progressive revelation is a "grand narrative" or meta-historical account of humanity's spiritual and psycho-social progress over the length of human existence. In other words, this teaching presents the story of the unfolding or actualizing of uniquely human potentials in our struggle with the material world and our own animal natures. The foreseeable goal is the eventual unification of humankind and the attainment of the spiritual and psycho-social maturity of mankind. This paper will compare and contrast the Bahá'í "grand narratives" with other meta-historical theories in order to help clarify our understanding of the explicit and implicit Bahá'í teachings about the nature of human history as well as human destiny. The major authors we shall examine are Georg W. H. Hegel, Oswald Spengler, Arnold Toynbee, Lewis Mumford and PitIrim Sorokin.
language	English
keywords	METAHISTORY; HISTORY; NARRATIVE; HEGEL, GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH, 1770-1831; SPENGLER, OSWALD; TOYNBEE, ARNOLD; MUMFORD, LEWIS; SOROKIN, PITIRIM
URL	http://irfancolloquia.org/137/kluge_metahistory
pages	215–350
section	7.

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