Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... Pope open his Apologia Pro Deo Suo . His first point is a balanced awareness of man's limitations and grandeur . He ... Pope's view derived from a Judaeo - Christian , Graeco - Roman tradition older than that handed on from Leibnitz ...
... Pope open his Apologia Pro Deo Suo . His first point is a balanced awareness of man's limitations and grandeur . He ... Pope's view derived from a Judaeo - Christian , Graeco - Roman tradition older than that handed on from Leibnitz ...
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... Pope was innately as much of a child prodigy as was Mozart sitting on a pile of books to reach the keys of his ... Pope's common sense adjusted to the only kind of epic which prevailing taste licensed : the mock - epic , congenial to a ...
... Pope was innately as much of a child prodigy as was Mozart sitting on a pile of books to reach the keys of his ... Pope's common sense adjusted to the only kind of epic which prevailing taste licensed : the mock - epic , congenial to a ...
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... Pope's boyhood idol Dryden and Dryden's " Song for St. Cecilia's Day " but also because it expresses that surge of joyful hope necessary to help Pope endure the long physical trials ahead and to illuminate the otherwise gelid ...
... Pope's boyhood idol Dryden and Dryden's " Song for St. Cecilia's Day " but also because it expresses that surge of joyful hope necessary to help Pope endure the long physical trials ahead and to illuminate the otherwise gelid ...
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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