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"It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology."
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"The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence."
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"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."
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"Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story."
"Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything."
"I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe."
"After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life."
"I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation."
"Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world."
"Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about."
"Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything."
"Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent."
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