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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... sages and the artistic creations of the traditional worlds . The Perennial Philosophy provides the intellectual principles capable of ex- plaining both the formal contradictions and the underlying unity of the great religions . Ranging ...
... sages and the artistic creations of the traditional worlds . The Perennial Philosophy provides the intellectual principles capable of ex- plaining both the formal contradictions and the underlying unity of the great religions . Ranging ...
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... sages have both recognized and reflected on the harmony of 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 ...
... sages have both recognized and reflected on the harmony of 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 ...
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Christians on Nature Judith Fitzgerald, Michael Oren Fitzgerald. The Christian sages , men and women , whose voice is captured in this anthology , are derived from East and West . They comprise writers of old and of recent times . They ...
Christians on Nature Judith Fitzgerald, Michael Oren Fitzgerald. The Christian sages , men and women , whose voice is captured in this anthology , are derived from East and West . They comprise writers of old and of recent times . They ...
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... sages represent all the major branches of Christianity ; while some of them might disagree on other theological points , they are all of one mind concerning the essential Christian perspective on creation . Allowing for inevitable ...
... sages represent all the major branches of Christianity ; while some of them might disagree on other theological points , they are all of one mind concerning the essential Christian perspective on creation . Allowing for inevitable ...
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