This idea is a polar opposite of Ivan's view of children. ... Ivan's view is more grounded and I shall mention it more, in detail, later. ... Ivan's view of children is like the example above; he believes children to be victims of mans cruelty. ... They beat her and locked her in a room where she would be constantly beat and tortured.. ... Father Zosima agrees with Ivan that children should not suffer. ...

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I make the following comments in reply: Evidence for God as the "Body of Creation" Lodahl contends that my critique of his thinking, particularly as expressed in his book, God of Nature and of Grace (hereafter GNG) suffers from the serious flaw that the "notion that God is the body of creation" is not a central theme particularly in GNG and that there is "paltry support" for my conclusion that "God does not stand outside of nature but is fully embedded within nature" (RRE, 142). ... In so doing, Lodahl avoids dealing with the implications of the model o...

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His mother associates growing up with learning how to sin, while Gabriel and Ultima view growing up as an inevitable process that is not good or bad in itself. ... He views the Virgin of Guadalupe as the sweet, forgiving mediator between sinners and a wrathful, unforgiving God. ... Antonio also has difficulty coping with the idea that his brothers are men, not boys who will stay home with their mother. exposed to an alternate religious view "the legend of the golden carp that Samuel tells him. The legend of the golden carp contains the same kind of moral themes contained in Catho...

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