Nature as the Image of God: Reflections on the Signs of the Sacred

Abstract. This is a brief survey of aspects of the modern scientific view of nature to see if implied therein are signs or traces of the sacred–as early religious apprehension surely supposed. Nature's power and order are discussed as is the strange dialectic of death and life, evident in moder...

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Main Author: Gilkey, Langdon 1919-2004 (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 1994
In: Zygon
Year: 1994, Volume: 29, Issue: 4, Pages: 489-505
Further subjects:B Order
B or levels / hierarchy and
B Imago Dei
B redemptive unity
B traces
B death and new life
B Power
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Summary:Abstract. This is a brief survey of aspects of the modern scientific view of nature to see if implied therein are signs or traces of the sacred–as early religious apprehension surely supposed. Nature's power and order are discussed as is the strange dialectic of death and life, evident in modern biology as it also is in all early religion.
ISSN:1467-9744
Contains:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1994.tb00687.x