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Fred O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n

Mark 4:35-41 and Matthew 8:23-27<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen it is evening, you say, <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018It will be fair weather; for the sky is red.\u2019 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And in the morning, <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.\u2019 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Matthew 16:2-3<\/p>\n

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Introduction<\/u><\/h6>\n

\"Handstand<\/a><\/p>\n

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My interest in the sea goes back to my early childhood and has grown ever since.\u00a0 My father introduced us (my seven brothers, six sisters and I) as children to swimming off the West Coast of Ireland.\u00a0 From our early childhood we spent time each summer at the seaside resort of Kilkee in west Clare.\u00a0 My older brother, John, and I joined the Shannon Swimming Club in Limerick City and we competed at swimming galas on rivers, lakes and in the open sea at venues in the province of Munster.\u00a0 During our time at Kilkee each year, in addition to swimming at various places in and around the bay, we went for walks along the cliffs, rocks and coastline with my parents and maternal grandparents.\u00a0 On family walks during the day or night we stopped off at various natural amphitheatre shaped rock formations and engaged in story telling, praying the family rosary, singing and delighting in the panoramic view of the sometimes turbulent and, at other times, calm sea.\u00a0 We became familiar with the moods of the sea, the changing tide times, and the best swimming and diving spots.\u00a0 I can say with St. Augustine (Bk XXII, Ch XXIV; p. 395) that I saw \u201cthe strange alterations in the colour of the sea (as though in several garments), now one green, then another, now blue, then purple \u2013 how pleasing a sight sometimes it is to see it rough, and how much more pleasing when it is calm!<\/p>\n

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Our enjoyment of life by the seaside occurred in a faith context.\u00a0 Participation at daily mass and recitation of the family rosary was normal for us.\u00a0 My father\u2019s favourite bible story was the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes, and he and my mother encouraged within their children a firm faith that God always provides for one\u2019s needs.\u00a0 With my experience of swimming in all kinds of weather, in rough and calm seas and having traveled with local fishermen in their lightweight canvas lined currachs, the story of the calming of the storm held a particular fascination for me.\u00a0 A heightened interest occurred when I read the autobiography of St. Th\u00e9r\u00e9se of Lisieux where the storm story is mentioned in several contexts (e.g. pps 109, 111, 165) and where her concern that \u201crarely souls allow Him to sleep peacefully within them. Jesus is fatigued with always having to take the initiative and to attend to others that he hastens to take advantage of the repose I offer him (p.165)\u201d (p.165)<\/p>\n

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Experiencing the Storm<\/u><\/h6>\n

The account of the storm in Matthew and Mark became very real for me in June of 1997 when, with Karl Dittmar, I took part in the Dyea (near Skagway), Alaska to Dawson, Yukon Centennial Race to the Klondike. The race was limited to 50 teams of two, and was a re-enactment of the great gold-rush stampede of 1897-98.\u00a0 We had a 56 Kl. hike over the Chilkoot trail and a 900 Kl. canoe trip from Bennet Lake, through several lakes and down the mighty Yukon river to Dawson city.\u00a0\u00a0 We each\u00a0 had to carry a minimum load of 22.5 Kilograms (50 lbs), which included listed compulsory items such as a gold pan, cast iron frying pan, hatchet, shovel, flour, beans and dried fruit – all to make it a realistic commemoration of the stampede.<\/p>\n

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The canoeing was an unexpected adventure.\u00a0 While sails were not allowed I had occasion to use a golfing umbrella on Bennet Lake; and more importantly, on Windy Arm (another large lake) during a storm of biblical proportions!\u00a0 One team sank in the storm, had to be rescued and nearly were lost, suffering hypothermia.\u00a0 Having lost most of their gear and not in a position to continue, they scratched from the race.\u00a0 All the other competitors, except Karl and I, stayed ashore until the storm abated!\u00a0 We were traveling close to shore, Karl in the rear and I up front.\u00a0 With the wind picking up I opened the umbrella and we started to pick up good speed.\u00a0 I was happy to display the umbrella to all those stampeders on shore, gesturing to them, bravado style, that we would see them in Dawson!!\u00a0 Being close to shore I felt that the breaking waves in the shallows were treacherous and I suggested to Karl that we move out a little farther into the lake.\u00a0 To my surprise, Karl turned to cross the lake, using his paddle as a rudder. The storm increased in ferocity. The sky darkened and, with the increased wind speed and gusts, the umbrella was blown inside-out some seven times. With the sudden pulls and thrusts things got very unsteady in the canoe and I started to fear for Karl and for the circumstances of my own family in the event of a looming disaster. I managed to brace myself, with my two knees against the gunnels, and to hold the stem of the umbrella in my left hand and the sky-pointing rib in my right hand so as to continue catching the wind and remaining relatively steady.<\/p>\n

\"M3391M-1012\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Reach for the skies, up she goes!<\/em>
\nWith gusto in it, beauty shows.<\/em>
\nStretch the boundaries, barriers break.<\/em>
\nShoot for heaven, shackles shake.<\/em>
\nBack flip, pike, somersault,<\/em>
\nHand stand, inward, swallow.<\/em>
\nTake the board and shoot aloft,<\/em>
\nFaith will bring the morrow. Fred O\u2019Brien<\/em><\/p>\n

The waves had increased up to some seven feet in height, according to Karl.\u00a0 We were trying to reach the narrows to Tagish River and had to cut across the wind and were buffeted by gusts and waves on the right side of the canoe.\u00a0 Every time we got a blast of wind and wave I called out (not too loud) \u201cJesus\u201d in prayer. I recalled St. Therese of Lisieux\u2019s reflection on the Bible story of Jesus asleep in the boat during the storm where she indicated that she would not wake him.\u00a0 I resolved to take her advice and prayed for Karl, myself, our families and put my trust in God.\u00a0 The wind was so powerful that we were shooting across the lake and over the waves at great speed.\u00a0 Without the umbrella, I am sure, we would have sunk in the storm!\u00a0\u00a0 Karl was using the paddle as a rudder and I was constricting the shape of the umbrella to hold it intact, bag shaped, and capturing the wind.\u00a0 The sky was ominously dark, the far shore seemed to be receding and the journey seemed to take an eternity.\u00a0 Now and again I thought: how far could we swim if we went down?\u00a0 How cold is the water?<\/em>\u00a0 The situation was so serious, I thought, that, come what may, even though my knees and arms were rigid and tired, I would not flag in my efforts and determination.\u00a0 I believe I was not afraid for myself.\u00a0\u00a0 Karl had nerves of steel in the rear of the canoe and, with his steady hand, solid sense of humour in the face of challenge, and, aided by the prayers of our Maryhouse supporters in Whitehorse, we did not take a drop of water in the course of the crossing!! On arrival at the other side the storm was still at its height and we had to beach the canoe with the lashing waves and gusting windblasts hitting us from the right.\u00a0 As we approached the shore I leapt from the canoe, was sideswiped by it in the shallow water and fell.\u00a0 The canoe was swamped and Karl and I were totally immersed in the freezing water.\u00a0 We struggled with the canoe and, managed to drag everything ashore.\u00a0 We were famished and proceeded to transfer canoe, tent and gear out of the wind-swept open area and around the corner of the sheltered narrows.\u00a0 We gathered firewood, found dry matches and tinder and lit a blazing fire. We pitched tent, stripped out of our wet clothes and hung clothing and gear to dry on some beach-lain deadwood.\u00a0 Our sleeping bags were dry on the inside and we bedded down for the night.\u00a0\u00a0 It was the most incredible adventure I had ever experienced.\u00a0 Praise the Lord for delivering us safely from so great a storm!<\/p>\n

Nature Symbols of God\u2019s Deeds of Power<\/u><\/h4>\n
\u201cFrom the fig tree learn its lesson: <\/em><\/h6>\n

As soon as its branch becomes tender <\/em><\/p>\n

and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mark 13:28<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe vine tendrils fear not\u2026a storm driven down the sky <\/em><\/p>\n

by mighty blasts of the North, but thrust forth their buds <\/em><\/p>\n

and unfold all their leaves.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>Virgil: Georgics Book 2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [alignment]<\/p>\n

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Raymond Brown (133), referring to the miraculous actions of Jesus in chapters 4 and 5 of Mark\u2019s Gospel, reminds us that the 1st<\/sup>-century worldview was very different from our own.\u00a0 He is correct of course.\u00a0 And yet the saying \u201cthe more things change, the more they remain the same\u201d has a great deal of truth to it.\u00a0 Human nature does not change and the search for meaning continues.\u00a0 In chapter five of the book, Knowledge and Faith<\/em>, Edith Stein treats of the symbolic theology of Dionysius the Apeopagite.\u00a0 Scholars stress, she tells us, that for the Areopagite, \u2018theology\u2019 \u201cmeans Holy Scripture, \u2018God\u2019s Word,\u2019 and \u2018theologians\u2019 means its authors, the sacred writers.\u201d(87). While, she tells us, this view usually holds, she indicates that \u201cit does not seem to me to exhaust their meaning\u201d (87).<\/p>\n

Through those to whom he speaks on the mountaintop God wishes to speak to the people they left below. That is why he deigns to speak to them, through them, and even without their mediation, in human words and in images men can understand. God gives his theologians the words and images that enable them to speak of him to others.\u00a0 And to those others he speaks as a \u201csymbolic theologian\u201d \u2013 through nature, through their inner experience and through His traces in human life and world history \u2013 thereby enabling them to understand the language of the theologians. (Stein 117)<\/p>\n

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The Spirit is active in the writing of the biblical text, and, indeed, in directing human consciousness towards the Triune God by displays of beauty and grandeur in creation.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEver since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made\u201d (Romans 1:20).<\/p>\n

As to the reading of scripture, Collins notes that: \u201cinspiration is predicated of the biblical text precisely because there is a faith community who, under the influence of the Spirit, will read and identify with this biblical text\u201d (1033).<\/p>\n

Interpreting the Sea<\/span><\/p>\n

Reality reveals itself to our apprehensive faculties in many and mysterious ways.\u00a0 Words can have personal, cultural, national and global impacts in terms images brought to mind.\u00a0 The images conjured up can extend through the centuries.\u00a0 \u201cRemember Thermopylae!\u201d has meaning to this day.\u00a0 Military strategists, diplomats and anyone facing a major challenge find this expression, which refers to the heroic three-day delaying-action in 480 BC fought by 300 Spartans along with 7,000 other Greeks against some 200,000 Persians at the Pass of Thermopylae (Herodotus, VII, 176).\u00a0 The story is recounted in the epic novel, Gates of Fire (Doubleday), by Stephen Pressfield published, in 1998.<\/p>\n

I still recall translating the Greek words \u201c\u03f4alassa, \u00a0\u03f4alassa\u201d as our high-school class completed Xenophon\u2019s Anabasis in 1958!\u00a0 \u201cThe sea, the sea\u201d the small number of survivors of the defeated ten thousand Greek mercenaries cried, when, after a long and arduous march, including encounters with Persian forces and armed local populations, they reached the Black sea coast.\u00a0 Their enthusiasm, I am sure, resonated in my very being as I read the words!<\/p>\n

Sea stories in the Hebrew Bible and in the New Testament form an important part of the story of a faith people and provide a backdrop to the calming of the storm story. Here are some examples:<\/p>\n

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Psalm 29:3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The voice of the Lord is over the waters.<\/p>\n

Ps65:7-8\u00a0\u00a0 You silence the roaring of the seas, the roaring of the waves, the tumult of the peoples.<\/p>\n

Ps.89:9\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, you still them.<\/p>\n

Ps.93:4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 More majestic than the thunders of the mighty waters, more majestic than the<\/p>\n

waves of the sea, majestic on high is the Lord!<\/p>\n

Ps 107:25-30\u00a0\u00a0 For he commanded and raised the stormy wind,<\/p>\n

which lifted up the waves of the sea.<\/p>\n

They mounted up to heaven, they went down to the depths;<\/p>\n

Their courage melted away in their calamity;<\/p>\n

they reeled and staggered like drunkards, and were at their wits\u2019 end.<\/p>\n

Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,<\/p>\n

and he brought them out from their distress;<\/p>\n

he made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed.<\/p>\n

Then they were glad because they had quiet,<\/p>\n

And he brought them to their desired haven.<\/p>\n

Job 38:8-9 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb? \u2013 when I<\/p>\n

made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band.<\/p>\n

Isaiah 57:20\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026 the wicked are like the tossing sea.<\/p>\n

Jonah 1:4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and such a mighty storm came<\/p>\n

upon the sea that the ship threatened to break up. Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried to his god.<\/p>\n

1:5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jonah, meanwhile\u2026 had lain down and was fast asleep.<\/p>\n

2.2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I called to the Lord out of my distress and he answered me.<\/p>\n

Nahum\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1:3a-4a His way is in a whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. He<\/p>\n

rebukes the sea and makes it dry, and he dries up all the rivers.<\/p>\n

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Matthew and Mark were fully aware of Israel\u2019s history when they wrote their Gospels.\u00a0 God\u2019s covenant with Noah after the saving of humankind and the account of the Exodus were very familiar to them.\u00a0 Saving by water and sea was their cultural and religious context.\u00a0 As religious Jews they would have been familiar with the Hebrew Bible, including the various references to God\u2019s awesome power contained in the selected excerpts above.\u00a0 In framing their account they were conscious of their audiences.\u00a0 Whether it was the Greeks, Romans or other Gentiles (particularly for Mark) who had a background culture of exposure to certain theogenies, philosophies and traditional religions; or Jewish communities (primarily for Matthew), one can observe in the Gospel accounts that words, descriptions and images used were skillfully crafted with the hearer in mind.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of what is possible \u201cin the light of faith\u201d, Edith Stein writes that \u201ca word of Scripture may so touch me in my innermost being that in this word I feel God himself speaking to me and sense his presence.\u00a0 The book and the sacred writer, or the preacher that I was just hearing, have vanished \u2013 God himself<\/em> is speaking<\/em>, and he is speaking to me<\/em>.\u00a0 At the time, the ground of faith is not exactly left behind, but for the moment I am raised above it to the experiential knowledge of God\u201d (110).\u00a0 Again, Edith Stein writes: \u201cThe person who knows and loves God from and in his living faith will be eager to come to know him from ever changing perspectives and in new \u2018features,\u2019 and again and again he will turn to the Holy Scriptures that makes it possible\u201d (109).<\/p>\n

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The Wind and the Sea<\/u><\/p>\n

The words used to describe the storm by Matthew, Mark and Luke were utilized in a \u2018Storm-wave Hindcasting\u2019 study in Ocean Engineering and the findings displayed.<\/p>\n

Looking at storm designations in the English, German and Norwegian language, making certain assumptions, using physics and applied mathematics, and translating the results into the Beaufort scale, the results were as follows:<\/p>\n

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Ref.<\/td>\nDesignation<\/td>\nBeaufort scale<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Matthew & Luke<\/td>\nStrong gale<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mark<\/td>\nStorm<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The Beaufort scale runs from 0 = Calm to 12 = Hurricane<\/p>\n

From my reading of the case study, in which wave heights were calculated using wind calculations and other criteria, a wave height maximum was calculated as 1.8 metres. (this interpretation of the case may be faulty on my part!)<\/p>\n

\"storm-wave-hindcasting-table\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Using Liddell the following meanings of the terms used by the evangelists were found:<\/p>\n

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\"greek\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Looking at reality we could compare the mathematical and poetic modes of explanation of the generation of waves by wind and consider to what extent they describe and explain the phenomena.<\/p>\n

\"math\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Poetic:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>There are waters blown by changing winds to laughter<\/p>\n

And lit by the rich skies all day.\u00a0 And after,<\/p>\n

Frost with a gesture, stays the waves that dance<\/p>\n

And wandering loveliness.\u00a0 He leaves a white<\/p>\n

Unbroken glory, a gathered radiance,<\/p>\n

A width, a shining peace, under the night.\u00a0 Charles Lamb<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Poetry, mathematical models and prose are used to describe the natural environment and their modes of explanation have value and limitation.\u00a0 Their comparative merits in representing reality and imparting knowledge is of epistemological significance.\u00a0\u00a0 Mathematics works, it is objective, manageable and certain.\u00a0 Poetry has both an emotional and intellectual appeal; it induces wonder, which is an incentive towards effort at further understanding those less codifiable aspects of reality highlighted in the poet\u2019s imagery.\u00a0 The following treatments of the sea environment can give one a feel for \u201cstory\u201d styles:<\/p>\n

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean – roll;
\nTen thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
\nMan marks the earth with ruin – his control
\nStops with the shore – upon the watery plain
\nThe wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain
\nA shadow of man’s ravage, save his own,
\nWhen, for a moment, like a drop of rain.
\nHe sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan,
\nWithout a grave, unknell’d, uncoffin’d and unknown.\u00a0 <\/em>\u2013 Lord Byron.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, <\/strong><\/p>\n

whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe regularity of the barrels [waves] surprised and charmed the eye; <\/strong><\/p>\n

the edge behind the comb or crest was as smooth and bright as glass.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Journal 1872<\/p>\n

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Faith and the Storm Story<\/u><\/p>\n

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\u201cFor truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, \u2018Move from here to there,\u2019 and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.\u201d Matt 17:20<\/p>\n

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The storm described by Mark is more ferocious than that described by Matthew while the reprimand by Jesus in Mark – \u201cHave you no faith\u201d \u2013 is more serious than \u201cyou of little faith\u201d in Matthew.\u00a0 Mark has, accordingly, emphasized the greatness of the deed of power performed by Jesus (stilling a \u2018seismic\u2019 storm) and the great lack of faith in his followers.\u00a0 This is in keeping with his strong emphasis on the total rejection of the Messiah by all, and, in the light of the resurrection and the conversion of the disciples, the great hope offered to the audience, people of little power and subject to persecution, he was speaking to.\u00a0 The contrast between Mark and Matthew can even be seen as greater when one considers that, prior to the calming the disciples were privy to the musthrion (\u201cTo you has been given the secret of the Kingdom of God\u201d) (4:11) and that Jesus \u201cexplained everything (panta) in private to them (4:34).<\/p>\n

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Conclusion<\/p>\n

“One sins against the Majesty of God if one refuses to look at nature’s own work and if one is content with merely reading what someone else has written about it.\u00a0 That is the way to conjure up for oneself different fanciful opinions.\u00a0 It means not only missing the joy of beholding God’s marvels, but also wasting time which could have been used for something useful and to the benefit of one’s neighbour, by lapsing into all sorts of things which are unworthy of God.”\u00a0 (Palsson 17)<\/p>\n

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The \u201cCalming of the Sea\u201d story is a wonderful story of the great power of God and of how he speaks to us in an environmental adventure trip.\u00a0 For the story to impact ones heart and mind it is necessary to be graced by faith and moved by the \u2018meaningful\u2019symbols.\u00a0 I have heard it said that for some people water is no longer the sign indicating being buried with Christ and rising with him that it was in times past.\u00a0 Experiencing water only from a tap, which can be turned on and off at will, and seeing it as something controlled by engineered dams, cisterns and canals and apparently fully under human control is not a reflection of its contingent being that speaks of the Creator.\u00a0 The disciples were very close to God\u2019s creation and filled with the Spirit of Jesus.\u00a0 For people to more fully hear the \u2018theologians\u2019 spoken of by the Areopagite they must meaningfully experience God\u2019s creation.<\/p>\n

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References<\/p>\n

Collins, Raymond F. \u201cInspiration.\u201d In NJBC, pp.1023-1033<\/p>\n

Davies, W.D. & Allison, Dale C.. A Critical & Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to St. Matthew, Vol II<\/p>\n

Brown, Raymond E. An Introduction to the New Testament<\/em>. New York: Doubleday, 1997.<\/p>\n

Eddington, Arthur. Nature of the Physical World Ch XV \u2013 Science and Mysticism<\/a><\/p>\n

Humphrey, Hugh. He is Risen! \u2013 A New Reading of Mark\u2019s Gospel. Paulist Press. New York 1992<\/p>\n

Jones, Alexander. The Gospel According to St. Matthew. Sheed & Ward. New York, 1965<\/p>\n

Keener, Craig S. The IVP New Testament Commentary Series. Matthew. Intervarsity Press.<\/p>\n

Kilgallen, John. A Brief Commentary on the Gospel of Mark. Paulist Press. Mahwah, NJ 1989<\/p>\n

Liddell, Henry George. A Greek \u2013 English Lexicon. Oxford University Press. 1940.<\/p>\n

McDonough, Sean M. Of Beasts and Bees: the View of the Natural World in Virgil\u2019s Georgics and John\u2019s Apocalypse. In New Test. Stud. 46, pp. 227-244.<\/p>\n

Palsson, Erik Kennet. Niels Stensen \u2013 Scientist and Saint. Tr. by M.N.L.Couve De Murville. Dublin. Veritas, 1988<\/p>\n

St. Augustine. The City of God. Vol. Two. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1945<\/p>\n

Stein, Edith. Knowledge and Faith. Washington: ICS Publications, 2000.<\/p>\n

The Autobiography of St. Th\u00e9r\u00e9se of Liseux. Tr. John Clarke. ICS Publications. Washington, 1972.<\/p>\n

Storm-wave Hindcasting\u2019 study in Ocean Engineering http:\/\/research.dnv.com\/hci\/ocean\/bk\/c\/a52\/S6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

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Fred O\u2019Brien Mark 4:35-41 and Matthew 8:23-27   \u201cWhen it is evening, you say, \u2018It will be fair weather; for the sky is red.\u2019 And in the morning, \u2018It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.\u2019 You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thesis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iceh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iceh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iceh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iceh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iceh.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.iceh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/www.iceh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iceh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iceh.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iceh.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iceh.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}