The Sermon of All Creation: Christians on NatureJudith Fitzgerald, Michael Oren Fitzgerald With a profound vision of the sacred quality of creation, this collection of beautiful photographs of the natural world combined with commentaries by a host of Christian sages of all denominations, from the origins of Christianity through the 19th century, provides answers to how we should view the relationship between the Creator and creation as well as understand how the divine activity permeates the entire universe. |
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... Augustine of Hippo to Gregory of Nyssa , and from Hildegard of Bingen to Therese of Lisieux ; from Martin Luther to John Calvin , and from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Henry David Thoreau . Their words are supposed to be read slowly ; their ...
... Augustine of Hippo to Gregory of Nyssa , and from Hildegard of Bingen to Therese of Lisieux ; from Martin Luther to John Calvin , and from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Henry David Thoreau . Their words are supposed to be read slowly ; their ...
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... Augustine of Hippo ( 354-430 ) For or He produced things into being in order that His good- ness might be communicated to them ; and because His good- ness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone , He produced many and ...
... Augustine of Hippo ( 354-430 ) For or He produced things into being in order that His good- ness might be communicated to them ; and because His good- ness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone , He produced many and ...
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