Seeing God Everywhere: Essays on Nature and the SacredBarry McDonald This anthology, combining articles by Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, Jewish, and Native American scholar, looks at the environmental crisis through a spiritual lens. |
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... tree is good not just because it provides oxygen to humans and wood for furniture or fire ( and therefore we take care of it ) , but a tree is good in itself , irrespective of its market value or human usefulness . A pro- found ...
... tree is good not just because it provides oxygen to humans and wood for furniture or fire ( and therefore we take care of it ) , but a tree is good in itself , irrespective of its market value or human usefulness . A pro- found ...
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... tree , nor that this tree is God , but one can say that the tree is , in a certain aspect , not " other than God , " or that , not being non - existent , it cannot not be God in any fashion . For the tree has firstly existence , then ...
... tree , nor that this tree is God , but one can say that the tree is , in a certain aspect , not " other than God , " or that , not being non - existent , it cannot not be God in any fashion . For the tree has firstly existence , then ...
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... tree lets fall its fruit ; finally , number is what repeats us - inside ourselves as also around us - and what , in repeating us , diversifies us , for two things can never be absolutely identical ; number repeats form as if by magic ...
... tree lets fall its fruit ; finally , number is what repeats us - inside ourselves as also around us - and what , in repeating us , diversifies us , for two things can never be absolutely identical ; number repeats form as if by magic ...
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... trees , on wood . Their fires depended on the wood . The trees gave them shelter and protection . When a dangerous animal threatened them , they could climb up to safety . Some trees bear beautiful flowers , which are orna- ments ...
... trees , on wood . Their fires depended on the wood . The trees gave them shelter and protection . When a dangerous animal threatened them , they could climb up to safety . Some trees bear beautiful flowers , which are orna- ments ...
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... trees , the grasses , the rivers , the mountains , all the four - legged animals and the winged peoples ; and even more important we should understand that He is also above all these things and peoples.15 There are those who seek to ...
... trees , the grasses , the rivers , the mountains , all the four - legged animals and the winged peoples ; and even more important we should understand that He is also above all these things and peoples.15 There are those who seek to ...
Contents
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Christianity and the Survival of Creation 333 | 53 |
The Spiritual and Religious Dimensions of | 73 |
Our Mother Earth | 103 |
Flower Viewing | 133 |
Of Metaphysics and Polynesian Navigation | 161 |
Hierophanic Nature | 193 |
Supreme Archetype of Aesthetic | 215 |
Creation the Image of God | 241 |
Becoming Part of It | 269 |
Acknowledgments | 297 |
Index | 311 |
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Page 60 - Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Page 59 - That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Page 60 - Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth : they are a trouble unto me ; I am weary to bear them. And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your' hands are full of blood. "Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes ; cease to do evil : learn to do well ;. seek judgement, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Page 187 - You never enjoy the world aright till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars, and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than so, because men are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as you.
Page 62 - And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the Lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath...
Page 59 - But will God indeed dwell on the earth ? Behold, the heaven, and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee: how much less this house that I have builded...
Page 29 - Thou art the fire, Thou art the sun, Thou art the air, Thou art the moon, Thou art the starry firmament, Thou art Brahman Supreme: Thou art the waters — thou, The creator of all! Thou art woman, thou art man, Thou art the youth, thou art the maiden, Thou art the old man tottering with his staff; Thou facest everywhere. Thou art the dark butterfly, Thou art the green parrot with red eyes, Thou art the thunder cloud, the seasons, the seas. Without beginning art thou, Beyond time, beyond space. Thou...