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... creatures will turn their backs on God , refusing to recognize the creator or to desire communion with him . In this case , creatures undergo a reverse metamorphosis , involv- ing diminished recognition , failed desire , and natural ...
... creatures will turn their backs on God , refusing to recognize the creator or to desire communion with him . In this case , creatures undergo a reverse metamorphosis , involv- ing diminished recognition , failed desire , and natural ...
Page 139
... creatures " who could return him nothing else . " Unlike Smith , Sir Thomas Browne , in Religio Medici , accepts ... Creatures can give glory to God , glory that God does not possess on his own , and the enabling condition for that gift ...
... creatures " who could return him nothing else . " Unlike Smith , Sir Thomas Browne , in Religio Medici , accepts ... Creatures can give glory to God , glory that God does not possess on his own , and the enabling condition for that gift ...
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... creature and its communal inclination to return to its source . In rational creatures , the tendency represented by the flowering of plants appears as the inborn desire to know and praise God . The universality and instinctiveness of ...
... creature and its communal inclination to return to its source . In rational creatures , the tendency represented by the flowering of plants appears as the inborn desire to know and praise God . The universality and instinctiveness of ...
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