Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... concerned about obituaries ; but I am aware that they are a cause of anxiety to many . They are real , therefore ... concern . As long as we are loved by a faithful few , it is more than enough . Probably more than our deserts . The most ...
... concerned about obituaries ; but I am aware that they are a cause of anxiety to many . They are real , therefore ... concern . As long as we are loved by a faithful few , it is more than enough . Probably more than our deserts . The most ...
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... concerned friends . It is easier for doctors and nurses to help the patient who is aware that he / she is only one of a family of afflicted sufferers than one who asserts absolute uniqueness . Some pain is unique . Some degree of pain ...
... concerned friends . It is easier for doctors and nurses to help the patient who is aware that he / she is only one of a family of afflicted sufferers than one who asserts absolute uniqueness . Some pain is unique . Some degree of pain ...
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... concerned , self - acknowledged layman can . Of course , I dissent from Professor Gould's historical inaccuracy in linking the papacy with strenuous advocacy of " Creationism , " a lapsus memoriae , perhaps ; for the Church took an ...
... concerned , self - acknowledged layman can . Of course , I dissent from Professor Gould's historical inaccuracy in linking the papacy with strenuous advocacy of " Creationism , " a lapsus memoriae , perhaps ; for the Church took an ...
Contents
Preface Foreword Poem Sonnet to Death Chapter I The Ferries at Bayhead Death as Natural Transition | 1 |
Last Things First Necessity of a Point of View | 11 |
God on Trial The Problem of Evil | 19 |
Copyright | |
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