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Hannah Dunnett's beautiful artwork, interweaving Bible verses and
images, has inspired many people. From sailing boats bobbing on the
river and lighthouses standing tall, to majestic trees and soaring
mountains, to welcoming cottages and cosy kitchens, Hannah paints
pictures that help us understand scripture and reflect on God's
word in a fresh way. In this book, Hannah has chosen twenty-four of
her favourite pictures and tells the story behind each one. As she
draws out key verses and their meaning and offers questions to
reflect on, readers will gain new insight and understanding. This
collection of beloved artwork is divided into four sections: The
Wondrous Cross, Father God, Teach me Your Ways, and Let Your Light
Shine, and will take individual readers, or small groups, on a
journey further towards the heart of God.
"The Thoughtful Guide to God" presents a rational approach to
notions of God and soul for those who are disenchanted with
organized religion. Reviving concepts of the divine that go back to
the earliest human civilizations of both East and West, it shows
how ideas have evolved from early scriptural revelations, through
the rationalization of the Greek philosophers, to the developments
of modern physics. Few works bring together ideas from so many
disciplines-from religion, philosophy and science, with all the
supporting detail. Packed with references for further reading, it
provides a bridge between science and religion, and between many of
the different religions of the world. All the terms and concepts
are explained so that they are accessible to the general reader.
The discoveries of Newton and Galileo, through to Einstein and
contemporary scientists, and the ideas of God from a number of
Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Hindu thinkers, are presented with
brief biographical background to put these personalities in
context. Their thoughts are fused with those of Greek and later
philosophers that have shaped society in Western Europe to provide
a unifying concept of the divine as Communal Soul- a one-world view
which it is essential should convince more of the population in the
materialist West if Earth and humankind are to survive into the
22nd century.
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