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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... heaven and earth , struggling - albeit imperfectly and incompletely - to retain the connections between a flower in the fields , a ray of sunlight , and the glory of God . That is how they understood the sense of beauty . And that is ...
... heaven and earth , struggling - albeit imperfectly and incompletely - to retain the connections between a flower in the fields , a ray of sunlight , and the glory of God . That is how they understood the sense of beauty . And that is ...
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... heaven and earth cry out to you , " God made me ! " Augustine of Hippo ( 354-430 ) hen I consider thy heavens , the work of thy.
... heaven and earth cry out to you , " God made me ! " Augustine of Hippo ( 354-430 ) hen I consider thy heavens , the work of thy.
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Christians on Nature Judith Fitzgerald, Michael Oren Fitzgerald. hen I consider thy heavens , the work of thy fingers , the moon and the stars , which thou hast ordained , what is man , that thou art mindful of him ? Psalm 8 : 3-4 B ...
Christians on Nature Judith Fitzgerald, Michael Oren Fitzgerald. hen I consider thy heavens , the work of thy fingers , the moon and the stars , which thou hast ordained , what is man , that thou art mindful of him ? Psalm 8 : 3-4 B ...
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