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The Hydrologic Cycle and the Wisdom of God
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ISBN: 9781487584535 1487584539 Year: 1968 Publisher: Toronto

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This is the first volume of a new series of research publications in geography which is published for the Department of Geography, University of Toronto. The Hydrologic Cycle and the Wisdom of God traces the development of the idea of the hydrologic cycle in the context of natural theology. The notion that "all creation exhibits the wisdom of the Creator" was once a widely held belief in the Western world. However, unlike stars and biological organisms, the physical features of the earth, with their evident lack of pattern, were difficult to reconcile with God's wisdom until scholars and scientists, at the end of the seventeenth century, found a satisfactory solution in the concept of the hydrologic cycle. The concept served to explain the earth's features so well that in the process it explained away one of them-the great deserts. This work shows the growth and eventual decay of a concept which attempts to relate the broad range of seemingly little-connected phenomena that physical geographers, in their several capacities, are still committed to study. It will be of interest to physical geographers and all scholars who are concerned with historical attitudes towards man's physical environment. (University of Toronto Department of Geography Publications No. 1).

Christian wisdom
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ISBN: 9780521698382 9780521875455 0521698383 0521875455 9780511487699 9780511290374 0511290373 0511289774 9780511289774 051148769X 9786610917181 6610917183 1107182131 1280917180 0511322399 0511288484 0511289162 9780511288487 9781107182134 9781280917189 9780511322396 9780511289163 Year: 2007 Volume: 16 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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What is Christian wisdom for living in the twenty-first century? Where is it to be found? How can it be learnt? In the midst of diverse religions and worldviews and the demands and complexities of our world, David Ford explores a Christian way of uniting love of wisdom with wisdom in love. Core elements are the 'discernment of cries', the love of God for God's sake, interpretation of scripture, and the shaping of desire in faith. Case studies deal with inter-faith wisdom among Jews, Christians and Muslims, universities as centres of wisdom as well as knowledge and know-how and the challenge of learning disabilities. Throughout, there is an attempt to do justice to the premodern, modern and postmodern while grappling with scripture, tradition and the cries of the world today. Ford opens up the rich resources of Christianity in engaging with the issues and urgencies of contemporary life.

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