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... earth for post - lapsarian man was anything but miserable . He clung to his belief in revealed Christianity as the only possible comfort : neither the structure of the universe nor the behaviour and fate of man on earth proved anything ...
... earth for post - lapsarian man was anything but miserable . He clung to his belief in revealed Christianity as the only possible comfort : neither the structure of the universe nor the behaviour and fate of man on earth proved anything ...
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... Earth has become a tombstone marking the demise of its own life - process , of which the only vestiges remaining are the moss and lichens . The ' speaker is God , with His memories of what He had hoped might come of life on Earth - in ...
... Earth has become a tombstone marking the demise of its own life - process , of which the only vestiges remaining are the moss and lichens . The ' speaker is God , with His memories of what He had hoped might come of life on Earth - in ...
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... earth because his plans for it had all gone wrong , he has found an ' objective correlative ' for the sense of mystery with which he contemplates the illegible his- tory of the uncertain planet earth . Perhaps it is God speaking , as ...
... earth because his plans for it had all gone wrong , he has found an ' objective correlative ' for the sense of mystery with which he contemplates the illegible his- tory of the uncertain planet earth . Perhaps it is God speaking , as ...
Contents
God Defended | 26 |
God and Nature | 50 |
Poetic Attitudes to God from the Psalms to Dante | 69 |
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