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Of Course, Nobody Would Deny The Importance Of Human Beings For Theological Thinking, But The Time Span Of History That Theologians Think About Is A Few Thousand Years Of Human Culture Rather Than The Fifteen Billion Years Of The History Of The Universe.

-John Polkinghorne

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Of Course, Nobody Would Deny The Importance

John Polkinghorne

Of Course, Nobody Would Deny The Importance Of Human Beings For Theological Thinking, But The Time Span Of History That Theologians Think About Is A Few Thousand Years Of Human Culture Rather Than The Fifteen Billion Years Of The History Of The Universe.

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