Bibliography: UBTXGFJ4

key	UBTXGFJ4
title	Grand Narratives and the Bahá'í Writings
author	Kluge, Ian
authority control	Ian Kluge
item type	Book section
publication year	2017
date	2017
publication title	Lights of 'Irfán
ISBN	978-3-942426-32-9
abstract note	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.
pages	215-350
publisher	'Asr-i-Jadíd Publisher
place	Darmstadt, Germany
language	English
link attachments	http://irfancolloquia.org/137/kluge_metahistory
manual tags	HISTORY; NARRATIVE; HEGEL, GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH, 1770-1831; METAHISTORY; MUMFORD, LEWIS; SOROKIN, PITIRIM; SPENGLER, OSWALD; TOYNBEE, ARNOLD