Miracles
In Our Time
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The Franciscan Quest for Understanding and Relationship With Nature
Franciscans are deeply inside the church, and yet they too are carrying on what Janet has said is in the New Testament. Francis told his friars to actually observe nature, not just rely upon what they had been told by Aristotle. And ironically, it is out of that Franciscan quest for understanding and relationship with the rest of nature, that you begin to get the attempt to say, well, if we can see it and observe it, then it must be true. In a sense, I think it captures exactly what Janet's saying, which is that right through time you have this tension between skepticism and belief.
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