Providence and the Christian scholar.
God's action in the world poses a challenge for the Christian scholar. At the scholarly level of one's discipline, invocations of divine Providence as an explanatory category are considered unacceptable. Yet the scholar-believer necessarily acknowledges that God is indeed active in His Creation. Gen...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies Vol. 11; no. 1/2; pp. 123 - 141 |
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Institute for Interdisciplinary Research
1999
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