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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... Truth underlying the diverse religions . This Truth , often referred to as the Sophia Perennis - or Perennial Wisdom - finds its expression in the revealed Scriptures as well as the writings of the great sages and the artistic creations ...
... Truth underlying the diverse religions . This Truth , often referred to as the Sophia Perennis - or Perennial Wisdom - finds its expression in the revealed Scriptures as well as the writings of the great sages and the artistic creations ...
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... traditions that placed more reliance on the spiritual and metaphysical explanations of our place in the cosmos . Prior to this time our “ faith ” was firmly placed in spiritual truths that xiv | The Sermon of All Creation.
... traditions that placed more reliance on the spiritual and metaphysical explanations of our place in the cosmos . Prior to this time our “ faith ” was firmly placed in spiritual truths that xiv | The Sermon of All Creation.
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... truths that explained our role and responsibilities in relationship to God and to creation . In the search for purely measurable explanations , scientific methodology became more important than spiritual truth . Scientism is based upon ...
... truths that explained our role and responsibilities in relationship to God and to creation . In the search for purely measurable explanations , scientific methodology became more important than spiritual truth . Scientism is based upon ...
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... truth , that religious teachers dispute and hate each other , and speculative men are esteemed unsound and frivolous .... Whenever a true theory appears , it will be its own evidence . Its test is , that it will explain all phenomena ...
... truth , that religious teachers dispute and hate each other , and speculative men are esteemed unsound and frivolous .... Whenever a true theory appears , it will be its own evidence . Its test is , that it will explain all phenomena ...
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