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... religion , and those who , seeking the comforts of revealed religion , found it also threatening their sanity by inducing worries about eternal damnation - these far from exhaust the reactions to science and religion in the Enlighten ...
... religion , and those who , seeking the comforts of revealed religion , found it also threatening their sanity by inducing worries about eternal damnation - these far from exhaust the reactions to science and religion in the Enlighten ...
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... religion is not some- thing special , something only for sabbaths and holy days , but is bound up with the routine concerns of every day . The formality of the poet's form and the deliberate eccentricity of some ele- ments in the ...
... religion is not some- thing special , something only for sabbaths and holy days , but is bound up with the routine concerns of every day . The formality of the poet's form and the deliberate eccentricity of some ele- ments in the ...
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... religion is its poetry and that the documents of religion should be interpreted as poetry . Stevens had no wish to preserve a belief in Christianity by moving from a literal to a poetic interpretation of its biblical sources . His stand ...
... religion is its poetry and that the documents of religion should be interpreted as poetry . Stevens had no wish to preserve a belief in Christianity by moving from a literal to a poetic interpretation of its biblical sources . His stand ...
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