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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... wonder of God . Such is perhaps the root of our original sin : not a transgression against some invisible " principle , " but the rupture of the primal connection between ourselves , our world , and our God . How unfortunate it is that ...
... wonder of God . Such is perhaps the root of our original sin : not a transgression against some invisible " principle , " but the rupture of the primal connection between ourselves , our world , and our God . How unfortunate it is that ...
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... wonder when we consider that we all have the same Father and Mother . Nature is ever at work building and pulling down , creat- ing and destroying , keeping everything whirling and flowing , allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion ...
... wonder when we consider that we all have the same Father and Mother . Nature is ever at work building and pulling down , creat- ing and destroying , keeping everything whirling and flowing , allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion ...
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