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Natural Religion and the Fullness of Christ

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Created order can bear genuine wisdom without becoming an alternative to revelation in Jesus Christ.

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A circular engraving shows Apollo as the sun, Time with a clock, Diana as the moon, and a Black woman in a starry cloak personifying the stars — Jan Harmensz. Muller, after Hendrick Goltzius, *Fourth Day of Creation: Creation of the Sun, Moon, and Stars*, 1589

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Cross & Collect publishes essays about the church's life, questions, and practices. It stands within Nicene Christianity, is shaped by common prayer, and gathers gifts, cautions, and insights from across the Christian tradition.

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