Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... man's importance in it . All former aspects of man and the universe were sent spinning into outer space from which they have never entirely been reclaimed . Traditional views of man's nature and unique identity were undermined if not ...
... man's importance in it . All former aspects of man and the universe were sent spinning into outer space from which they have never entirely been reclaimed . Traditional views of man's nature and unique identity were undermined if not ...
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... man was head gardener and Christus Redemptor had confirmed man's merit and future destiny this naturally persisted after Copernicus ' celestial observations ; and , as a belief in principle , still persists today . With the great ...
... man was head gardener and Christus Redemptor had confirmed man's merit and future destiny this naturally persisted after Copernicus ' celestial observations ; and , as a belief in principle , still persists today . With the great ...
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... man's rush to score , there are lesions and bruises where , as leech Roger Chillingworth confessed to Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter , " Therein the patient must minister to himself . " Is not that still partly true of ...
... man's rush to score , there are lesions and bruises where , as leech Roger Chillingworth confessed to Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter , " Therein the patient must minister to himself . " Is not that still partly true of ...
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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