Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... original sin , a felix culpa . You are thereby relieved of the burden of scholarly baggage under which both the academic and his readers groan . I make one concession to ingrained professional habit : a so - called bibliography of ...
... original sin , a felix culpa . You are thereby relieved of the burden of scholarly baggage under which both the academic and his readers groan . I make one concession to ingrained professional habit : a so - called bibliography of ...
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... original sin was " almost as certain as that the world and God exists .... If there be a God , since there is a God , the human race is implicated in some terrible aboriginal calamity . It is out of joint with the purposes of its ...
... original sin was " almost as certain as that the world and God exists .... If there be a God , since there is a God , the human race is implicated in some terrible aboriginal calamity . It is out of joint with the purposes of its ...
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... original sin , they listened patiently to my efforts to coin a maxim after the manner of La Rochefoucauld . " Le péché original explanation . ' 99 ― ce n'est pas une excuse . C'est une They howled at my gauche American substitution of ...
... original sin , they listened patiently to my efforts to coin a maxim after the manner of La Rochefoucauld . " Le péché original explanation . ' 99 ― ce n'est pas une excuse . C'est une They howled at my gauche American substitution 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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