The Work of Their Hands

Greek philosophers conceived of the divine as philosophical abstraction: a cosmic principle that held together the fabric of the universe. In the poetic imagination of Hebrew writers, however, the divine was also irrepressibly, exuberantly tactile. This God got his hands dirty: He shaped clay. He planted gardens. He marked out foundations. He stretched out heavens. Read more...

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