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69 Genesis 18.

70 Isaiah 6:5; Jeremiah 1:6-10; Ezekiel 2:15.

71 Confucius, Analects 5:6; 16:2.

72 Sadly, inclusive language is not appropriate here. Like most of the Axial sages, Confucius had little time for woman.

73 Confucius, Analects, 12:22; 17:6.

74 Ibid., 12:2.

75 Ibid., 4:15.

76 Ibid., 8:8.

77 Ibid., 3:26;17:12.

78 Anguttara Nikaya, 6:63.

79 Dao De Jing, 80.

80 Ibid., 25.

81 Ibid., 6,16, 40, 67.

82 Fataka, 1:54-63; Vinaya : Mahavagga, 1:4.

83 Psalm 82.

84 2 Chronicles, 34:5-.

85 Hosea, 13:2; Jeremiah, 10; Psalms 31:6; 115:4-8; 135:15.

86 Exodus, 14.

87 Isaiah, 43:11-12.

88 Plato, The Republic, 10:603D-607A.

89 Ibid., 522a8; Plato, Timaeus,26E5.

90 Metaphysics III, 1000a11-20.

91 Plato, The Republic, 509F.

92 Plato, Timaeus, 29B and C.

93 Aristotle, Metaphysics, 1074 Bf.

95 Philippians, 2:9

94 2 Corinthians, 5:16.

96 Philippians, 2:9-11.

97 Philippians, 2:7-9.

98 Luke, 24:13-22.

99 Kabbalists stressed that En Sof was neither male nor female. It was an ‘If’ that became a ‘Thou’ to the mystic at the end of the process of emanation.

100 Gregory of Nyssa, ‘Not Three Gods’.

101 Richard S. Westfall, ‘The Rise of Science and the Decline of Orthodox Christianity: A Study of Kepler, Descartes and Newton’ in David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers (eds), God and Nature Historical Essays on the Encounter Between Christianity and Science (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1986), 231.

102 Gregory of Nazianzos, Oration, 26:6-10.

103 Blaise Pascal, Pensees (trans. A.J. Krasilsheimer, London, 1966), 209.

104 R.C. Lovelace, ‘Puritan Spirituality The Search for a Rightly Reformed Church’ in Louis Dupre and Don E. Saliers (eds), Christian Spirituality: Post Reformation and Modern (London and New York, 1989), 313-15.

105 T.H. Huxley, Science and Christian Tradition (New York, 1896), 125.

106 Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (New York, 1974), 181.

107 Thomas Mann, The Making of The Magic Mountain,’ in The Magic Mountain. (trans. H.I. Lowe Porter, London, 1999), 719-29.

108 George Steiner, Real Presences; Is there anything in what we say? (London, 1989). 142-43.