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Abraham's Bedroom‐Slippers God, sacred history, and chance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Timothy McDermott
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The Aquinas Lecture given at Blackfriars, Oxford, on 29 January 1991.

When I was a student in Cambridge forty-odd years ago a Capuchin friar said to me, ‘God is on the surface of things’. I want to talk about that, and about how it gets obscured by the abstractions of science on the one hand and the make-believe of religion on the other.

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Research Article
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New Blackfriars , Volume 72 , Issue 847 , March 1991 , pp. 113 - 123
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Copyright © 1991 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers