Sentences with phrase «history of nature»

The Yale philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff provides a critical history of the nature and purpose of art in modernity and suggestions for a theory of art today that could admit both its fallenness and its potency to engender some kind of salvation, and a piece by Daniel Taylor describes the abandoned Irish monastery of Skellig Michael that might make some readers want to plan a pilgrimage to this holy and - to?

«We look upon life these days from two opposing points of view,» writes Carl F. Von Weizsäcker, «from man, and from physical science» (The History of Nature [University of Chicago Press, 1949], p. 122).

If the history of nature is a result of unilateral, divine control, then God's love must be questioned, for the history of life on earth does not readily attest to the existence of an all - controlling and all - loving God.

More importantly, the image of divine control presents insuperable problems for theodicy, and this not only in relation to human history but also in relation to the history of nature.

C. F. von Weizsäcker, History of Nature (Univ. of Chicago Press), p. 2.

We can not understand fully the nature of history apart from the history of nature.

And so, in a very general way, we may speak about the history of the universe or the history of nature.

Roderick Cave's forthcoming book Impressions of Nature: A History of Nature Printing, has been very helpful to all of us in understanding the development and applications of nature printing throughout time.

Michele Oka Doner, artist; Patricia Jonas, Director of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Library Services and Curator of the Florilegium Society; and Karen Reeds, scholar, talk about the history of nature printing and its allure for contemporary artists.

Kalyan Mal Singh, a 70 - year - old village leader, picked up his broom before narrating his history of nature conservation.