In my critique of his ideas this is exactly what I was attempting to do, to draw out implications of a process interpretation of the world being God's body, which Lodahl seems to largely accept. ... While I view such interpretations as inadequate to describe God's transcendence from creation, I do not suggest in the literal sense that for Lodahl God is in any snapshot of the world fully or exhaustively embedded in nature at any particular point in time. ...

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It is a complex synthesis of moral, natural, and metaphysical evils (Russell 1986, 18) that varies in its interpretation across time and cultures. ... Even though there was a history of daemonology in place before the Greeks and Romans began to develop their own, the Greeks were the first to question the origin and nature of evil in strictly philosophical terms. ...

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God, Morality, and Meaning in Cormac McCarthy's The Road Erik J. Wielenberg Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road is, among other things, a meditation on morality, what makes human life meaningful, and the relationship between these things and God. While the novel is rife with religious imagery and ideas, it suggests a conception of morality and meaning that is secular in nature. In this paper I show that while the existence of God remains ambiguous throughout the novel, The Road contains both a clear moral code and a view about what makes life meaningful. I describe this moral code and e...

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1. 60 million years ago, the age of giant reptiles came to an end. Dinosaurs ruled the earth, while mammals were not able to evolve because they could never challenge the dinosaurs. Then, a comet hit the earth and the dinosaurs disappeared. Mammals, including primates, were then able to evolve....

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