Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... acceptance among their coevals and the joy of com- munication , if too belatedly . If not the beginning of life , it was retrieval of a good slice of life before it had entirely slipped away . And , as Thoreau and Melville had testified ...
... acceptance among their coevals and the joy of com- munication , if too belatedly . If not the beginning of life , it was retrieval of a good slice of life before it had entirely slipped away . And , as Thoreau and Melville had testified ...
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... acceptance by virtue of its historic origins and the heroic martyrdom of its adherents , clarified by the doctrinal definitions confronting internal and external heresies which often attracted influential adherents as late as the post ...
... acceptance by virtue of its historic origins and the heroic martyrdom of its adherents , clarified by the doctrinal definitions confronting internal and external heresies which often attracted influential adherents as late as the post ...
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... , intense personal experience of the organic unity of all things in the benevolent embrace of God . Accordingly , much as I would like to analyze the language and the experience of Wordsworth overflowing 188 Towards Acceptance.
... , intense personal experience of the organic unity of all things in the benevolent embrace of God . Accordingly , much as I would like to analyze the language and the experience of Wordsworth overflowing 188 Towards Acceptance.
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 |
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