Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... élan vital surpassing the concepts of a trail - blazing Bergson . Matter is not dead stuff to be used and abused according to long practice . It is sacred , even theophanic , and to be treated with due reverence . Until recently only ...
... élan vital surpassing the concepts of a trail - blazing Bergson . Matter is not dead stuff to be used and abused according to long practice . It is sacred , even theophanic , and to be treated with due reverence . Until recently only ...
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... élan vital or on - going process in the nature of the universe . She admitted that she had never heard of Erasmus Darwin or his Loves of the Plants . I doubt very much if she ever heard of Gerard Manley Hopkins's thrusting green shoot ...
... élan vital or on - going process in the nature of the universe . She admitted that she had never heard of Erasmus Darwin or his Loves of the Plants . I doubt very much if she ever heard of Gerard Manley Hopkins's thrusting green shoot ...
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... élan vital and with Christ's teaching that he had come into the world to bring life and that more abundantly . That the Creator should operate in Nature through secondary causes was a compliment both to God and his creatures given a ...
... élan vital and with Christ's teaching that he had come into the world to bring life and that more abundantly . That the Creator should operate in Nature through secondary causes was a compliment both to God and his creatures given a ...
Contents
Preface Foreword Poem Sonnet to Death Chapter I The Ferries at Bayhead Death as Natural Transition | 1 |
Last Things First Necessity of a Point of View | 11 |
God on Trial The Problem of Evil | 19 |
Copyright | |
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