Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 33
Page 20
... spirit , is the linchpin of Pope's Great Chain of Being - a link between a purely spirit Order above him ( Angels and God ) and a magnificent Order 20 Towards Acceptance.
... spirit , is the linchpin of Pope's Great Chain of Being - a link between a purely spirit Order above him ( Angels and God ) and a magnificent Order 20 Towards Acceptance.
Page 189
... spirit , that impels All thinking things , all objects of all thought , And rolls through all things .... The spirit of Unity expressed here in a universe benevolently and personally directed is not the pantheism found elsewhere in ...
... spirit , that impels All thinking things , all objects of all thought , And rolls through all things .... The spirit of Unity expressed here in a universe benevolently and personally directed is not the pantheism found elsewhere in ...
Page 202
... spirit in its endowment of unfulfillable aspirations demanded by created nature . This was not Darwin's spirit surveying the sky - scraping Tree of Life , reaching upwards in a tangle of cooperation as well as competition . Life would ...
... spirit in its endowment of unfulfillable aspirations demanded by created nature . This was not Darwin's spirit surveying the sky - scraping Tree of Life , reaching upwards in a tangle of cooperation as well as competition . Life would ...
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 | |
11 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
acceptance Alfred North Whitehead ancient awareness beauty brain Bucky called Catholic century Christ Christian common course creative Darwin death Descartes dignity doctors dying élan vital Elisabeth Kübler-Ross eternal Euthanasia experience faith Faustus fear fideism Freud friends guilt Hans Küng healing heart heroic Hippocratic Oath hospice hospital human nature hypnosis immortality Jung Kübler-Ross laugh learned less limited living look man's matter meaning medicine mind modern Montaigne mystery never Noosphere notwithstanding nurses once organic pain Pangloss patient Perhaps philosophical Pope Pope's prayer problem psychiatrist psychoanalyst psychologist question reading reasonable trust reject response Revolution sense smile social society soul speak spirit suffering Talleyrand terminally ill thanatologist things Thoreau thou thought tradition Trigger Burke true truth ultimate unified field theory unity universal visitors Voltaire Waffen S.S. Weltanschauung wholly words