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Case
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Church of England, The Book of Common
Prayer: An edition containing proposals and
suggestions compiled by John Neale Dalton,
Canon of Windsor (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1920).
The
"Order for the Burial of the Dead"
in the Book of Common Prayer we can see an
early theological view of the "cycle
of life." Drawing on St. John, the Order
begins: "I am the resurrection and the
life saith the Lord: he that believeth on
me, though he die, yet shall he live: and
whosoever liveth and believeth on me shall
never die." (St. John II 25, 26.) When
the burial procession comes to the grave and
the body is prepared to be laid into the earth,
the Priest shall say "Man that is born
of a woman hath but a short time to live and
is full of misery ... In the midst of life
we are in death." While the earth shall
be cast upon the body, the Priest shall say
"Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty
God of his wise providence to take unto himself
the soul of our dear departed, we therefore
commit his body to the ground; earth to earth,
ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and
certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal
life."
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Case
1 |
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William
Paley, Natural Theology, 1794 |
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Carl
Linnaeus, Nemesis Divina, 1758 |
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George
Gregory, The Economy of Nature, 1804 |
Case
2 |
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Vladimir
Vernadsky, Biosphere and Noosphere, 1939 |
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Pierre
Teilard de Chardin, Human Energy, 1969 |
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Pierre
Teilard de Chardin, The Heart of Matter,
1978 |
Case
3 |
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John
Neale Dalton, The Book of Common Prayer, 1920 |
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Joan
Halifax, The Fruitful Darkness, 1993 |
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Hans
Dirk van Hoogstraten, Deep Economy, 2001 |
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Lynn
Margulis and Dorian Sagan, The Garden of
Microbial Delights, 1993 |
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Nina
Witoszek and Andrew Brennan, eds., Philosophical
Dialogues, 1999 |
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Roger
S. Gottlieb, ed., This
Sacred Earth, 2004 |
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Lloyd
Ackert
Whitney Humanities Center
Yale University
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P.O. Box 208298
New Haven, CT 06520-8298
Office: (203).432.3112
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The
exhibit is located in three cases in the rotunda on the
first floor of the Divinity Library. The library is at:
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Phone: (203) 432-5290
Circulation
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Reference Email:
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