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Mathematics and Eternity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2016
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To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology. The relationships of men to God and to the universe have each an accurate, and even a numerical, side, capable of scientific treatment, called pure and applied mathematics. It is more than an accident that theology, in the narrower sense, continually uses mathematical terms and illustrations, some of which we shall consider. Since truth is God, and therefore one, its different departments are related and overlapping; each is capable of illuminating the others, and the lower aspects are continually recognised as symbols and sacraments of the higher.
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