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NATURE AS THE IMAGE OF GOD: REFLECTIONS ON THE SIGNS OF THE SACRED
Author(s) -
Gilkey Langdon
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1994.tb00687.x
Subject(s) - apprehension , dialectic , philosophy , order (exchange) , epistemology , power (physics) , aesthetics , literature , art , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , economics
. 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.