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Evolution,' proclaimed the Rev. Daniel Miner Gordon during his inaugural lecture at Presbyterian College in Halifax, 'with its concept of growth rather than mechanism, of life working from within rather than a power constructing from without, helps further illustrate the method of Him who is the life of all that lives.' Seen in this way, evolution gave evidence of God's existence and watchful Providence; it revealed that the Creator was omniscient and omnipresent. Christian evolution implied a G
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― Secularizing the Faith: Canadian Protestant Clergy and the Crisis of Belief, 1850-1940
― Secularizing the Faith: Canadian Protestant Clergy and the Crisis of Belief, 1850-1940
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But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature; the desacralization of politics from human affairs; and the deconsecration of values from the human mind and conduct.
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― Islam and Secularism
― Islam and Secularism
