Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... human being in a purposeful world . Loss of belief in self , not the loss of life , is the disintegration and death that human beings dread most . Many of the excellent books being currently printed to respond to a growing concern with ...
... human being in a purposeful world . Loss of belief in self , not the loss of life , is the disintegration and death that human beings dread most . Many of the excellent books being currently printed to respond to a growing concern with ...
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... human family . Dia- logue has become routine exchange . Inter - group , inter - faith , inter- racial cooperation stir on the local scene , while a U.S. or an Ecumenical Council sustain the universal quest in the rubble of another ...
... human family . Dia- logue has become routine exchange . Inter - group , inter - faith , inter- racial cooperation stir on the local scene , while a U.S. or an Ecumenical Council sustain the universal quest in the rubble of another ...
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... human signifi- cance : contested and debated brilliantly perhaps , but a blind - and- blinding alley . It may touch the conscience of mankind , but it never touches a human heart outside of the Café des Deux Magots or the Café de Flore ...
... human signifi- cance : contested and debated brilliantly perhaps , but a blind - and- blinding alley . It may touch the conscience of mankind , but it never touches a human heart outside of the Café des Deux Magots or the Café de Flore ...
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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