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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).
Hydrology. --- God --- Sophianism --- Sophiology --- Wisdom --- Aquatic sciences --- Earth sciences --- Hydrography --- Water --- Wisdom.
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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.
Christian dogmatics --- Wisdom (Biblical personification) --- Ḥokhmah (Biblical personification) --- Sophia (Biblical personification) --- Wisdom (Biblical character) --- Personification in the Bible --- Sophianism --- Sophiology --- God (Christianity) --- Wisdom literature --- Wisdom --- 2 --- Experience --- Intellect --- Learning and scholarship --- Reason --- 2 Godsdienst. Theologie --- Godsdienst. Theologie --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Christianity --- History and criticism --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Biblia --- Wisdom. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- 2 Religion. Theology --- Religion. Theology --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion --- Wisdom literature - Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- God (Christianity) - Wisdom. --- Wisdom - Religious aspects - Christianity.
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