The Sermon of All Creation: Christians on NatureJudith Fitzgerald, Michael Oren Fitzgerald World Wisdom, Inc, 2005 - 164 pages 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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... traditions . The Sermon of All Creation : Christians on Nature appears as one of our selections in the Sacred Worlds ... tradition , or a theme of interest , such as prayer and virtue , which are found in all manifestations of the sacred ...
... traditions . The Sermon of All Creation : Christians on Nature appears as one of our selections in the Sacred Worlds ... tradition , or a theme of interest , such as prayer and virtue , which are found in all manifestations of the sacred ...
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... traditions and cultures , these 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 ...
... traditions and cultures , these 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 ...
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... tradition as regards the beauty and the majesty of the universe and man's place within that universe . But the gift of creation requires an appropriate response from each person . The words of these spiritual seekers bear witness to ...
... tradition as regards the beauty and the majesty of the universe and man's place within that universe . But the gift of creation requires an appropriate response from each person . The words of these spiritual seekers bear witness to ...
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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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