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... later books of Scripture . The solution was allegory . The God of Genesis who appears to occupy space and have social intercourse is a metaphor , a shadow or type of a higher non - sensory meaning . He is rendered in human terms as an ...
... later books of Scripture . The solution was allegory . The God of Genesis who appears to occupy space and have social intercourse is a metaphor , a shadow or type of a higher non - sensory meaning . He is rendered in human terms as an ...
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... later Middle Ages ; the Timaeus was known in a Latin translation , and Platonic doctrines drifted in through secon- dary sources . 14 Nevertheless it is correct to say that the later Middle Ages mark the triumph of Aristotelianism ...
... later Middle Ages ; the Timaeus was known in a Latin translation , and Platonic doctrines drifted in through secon- dary sources . 14 Nevertheless it is correct to say that the later Middle Ages mark the triumph of Aristotelianism ...
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... later relinquished this role , his fondness for the text remained constant . Deborah , his youngest daughter , later recounted that ' she and her sisters used to read to their father in eight languages , which by practice they were ...
... later relinquished this role , his fondness for the text remained constant . Deborah , his youngest daughter , later recounted that ' she and her sisters used to read to their father in eight languages , which by practice they were ...
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Political theory and political practice | 34 |
Population economy and society in Miltons England | 72 |
The educational background | 102 |
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