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The morality of meditation: How meditation guides one to follow the life example of Jesus

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Meditation is a form of ethics that was abolished from the Western Church several hundred years after the death of Christ. Meditation leads one to live as Jesus did. Today there is a resurgence of meditation in the Church, but one Christian denomination, the Reconstructionists, see a return to Biblical Law as the way to an ethical society. The procedures for this thesis included research of history and philosophers using books, Internet sources, and interviews. Results show that meditation is a more ethical approach than Reconstructionism. Meditation leads one to live in the compassionate way that Jesus did and is therefore a form of ethics that should be embraced. Reconstructionism and its quest for the return to biblical law goes against that which Jesus taught.

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English

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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 41-03, page: 6800.; Chair: Amy Oliver.; Thesis (M.A.)--American University, 2002.

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http://hdl.handle.net/1961/thesesdissertations:5615

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