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    The Power of Paradox
    The Power of Paradox
    The Power of Paradox
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    The Power of Paradox

    By W. Brewster Willcox

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    One thing this book is not is a tightly-reasoned argument that leads the reader inevitably to the books main thesis. It is rather, like its cover, a collage. It is a hundredmore or less observations into what is deep and meaningful in life, the reality around us, that gives the impression that reality is in fact a paradox, a friendly paradox. The book looks at theology, baseball, mathematics and the Bible. And it talks a lot about particle physics and quantum mechanics. Youll notice that it fails to mention rock stars and reality TV.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateApr 30, 2012
    ISBN9781469196732
    The Power of Paradox
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    W. Brewster Willcox

    The author is a retired United Church of Christ pastor who served four churches in Michigan and Pennsylvania and completed his career as a trained interim ministry specialist and served seven interims before retiring in 2002. He graduated from Oberlin College and holds two graduate degrees from Yale University Divinity School. In retirement near Lake Michigan, he and his wife, Mary Ellen, enjoy their family scattered about the country in Michigan, Arizona, Connecticut and District of Columbia; and a family cottage on Crystal Lake, Beulah, Michigan, where he served twenty years (until retiring that in 2020) as resident manager of the LLC that owns and maintains the cottage. Now he happily occupies a pew in his Congregational United Church of Christ in Muskegon, Michigan.

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